AWS Big Data Blog

This is a guest post co-authored by Jacques Steyn, Senior Manager Professional Services at Altron Group. Altron is a pioneer of providing data-driven solutions for their customers by combining technical expertise with in-depth customer understanding to provide highly differentiated technology solutions. Alongside their partner AWS, they participated in AWS Data-Driven Everything (D2E) workshops and a […]

This is a guest post authored by Kris Bliesner and Mike Brown from Vega Cloud. Vega Cloud is a premier member of the FinOps Foundation, a program by Linux Foundation supporting FinOps practitioners on cloud financial management best practices. Vega Cloud provides a place where finance, engineers, and innovators come together to accelerate the business […]

This blog post is co-written with Zygimantas Koncius from Etleap. Organizations use their data to extract valuable insights and drive informed business decisions. With a wide array of data sources, including transactional databases, log files, and event streams, you need a simple-to-use solution capable of efficiently ingesting and transforming large volumes of data in real […]

Using embedded analytics from Amazon QuickSight can simplify the process of equipping your application with functional visualizations without any complex development. There are multiple ways to embed QuickSight dashboards into application. In this post, we look at how it can be done using React and the Amazon QuickSight Embedding SDK. Dashboard consumers often don’t have […]

This is a guest post by Gonzalo Lezma from Amazon Mexico FP&A. The Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team in Mexico provides strategic support to Amazon’s CFO and executive team on planning, analysis, and reporting related to Amazon Mexico. We produce and manage key finance deliverables, such as internal profit and loss (P&L) reports for […]

Amazon OpenSearch Serverless helps you index, analyze, and search your logs and data using OpenSearch APIs and dashboards. The OpenSearch Serverless collection is a group of indexes. API and dashboard clients can access the collections from public networks or one or more VPCs. For VPC access to collections and dashboards, you can create VPC endpoints. […]

Extracting time series on given geographical coordinates from satellite or Numerical Weather Prediction data can be challenging because of the volume of data and of its multidimensional nature (time, latitude, longitude, height, multiple parameters). This type of processing can be found in weather and climate research, but also in applications like photovoltaic and wind power. […]

Backtesting is a process used in quantitative finance to evaluate trading strategies using historical data. This helps traders determine the potential profitability of a strategy and identify any risks associated with it, enabling them to optimize it for better performance. Index rebalancing arbitrage takes advantage of short-term price discrepancies resulting from ETF managers’ efforts to […]

This is a guest post by Vinod Nambiar from Position2. Position2 is a leading US-based growth marketing services provider focused on data-driven strategy and technology to deliver growth with improved return on investment (ROI). Position2 was established in 2006 in Silicon Valley and has a clientele spanning American Express, Lenovo, Fujitsu, and Thales. We work […]

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. August 30, 2023: Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics has been renamed to Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink. Read the announcement in the AWS News Blog and learn more. In this post, we […]