AWS Big Data Blog

This blog post is co-written by Glen Douglas and Alex Savchenko from Integrationworx. Enterprises that follow an Agile software development lifecycle (SDLC) process for their dashboard development and deployment typically have distinct environments for development, staging, QA and test, and production. One recommended approach when developing using AWS is to create multiple AWS accounts corresponding […]

Before the release of Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics Studio, customers relied on Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for SQL on Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. With the release of Kinesis Data Analytics Studio, data engineers and analysts can use an Apache Zeppelin notebook within Studio to query streaming data interactively from a variety of sources, like Kinesis […]

Organizations need a consolidated view of their applications, but typically application health status is siloed: end-users complain on social media platforms, operational data coming from application logs is stored on complex monitoring tools, formal ticketing systems track reported issues, and synthetic monitoring data is only available for the tool administrators. In this post, we show […]

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Search engines provide the means to retrieve relevant content from a collection of content. However, this can be challenging if certain exact words aren’t entered. You need to find the right item from a catalog of products, or the correct […]

In Part 1 of this series, you learned how to calibrate Amazon Kinesis Data Streams stream and Apache Flink application deployed in Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for tuning Kinesis Processing Units (KPUs) to achieve higher performance. Although the collection, processing, and analysis of spiky data stream in real time is crucial, reacting to the spiky […]

In real-time stream processing, it becomes critical to collect, process, and analyze high-velocity real-time data to provide timely insights and react quickly to new information. Streaming data velocity could be unpredictable, and volume could spike based on user demand at a given time of day. Real-time analysis needs to handle the data spike, because any […]

With AWS Glue DataBrew, data analysts and data scientists can easily access and visually explore any amount of data across their organization directly from their Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lake, Amazon Redshift data warehouse, Amazon Aurora, and other Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) databases. You can choose from over 250 built-in functions to merge, pivot, and transpose […]

A recurring business problem is achieving the ability to capture data in near-real time to act upon any significant event close to the moment it happens. For example, you may want to tap into a data stream and monitor any anomalies that need to be addressed immediately rather than during a nightly batch. Building these […]

We announced the general availability of AWS Lake Formation transactions, cell-level and row-level security, and acceleration at AWS re: Invent 2021. In this post, we focus on cell-level and row-level security and show you how to enforce business needs by restricting access to specific rows. Effective data lakes using AWS Lake Formation Part 1: Implementing […]

With the new SUPER data type and the PartiQL language, Amazon Redshift expands data warehouse capabilities to natively ingest, store, transform, and analyze semi-structured data. Semi-structured data (such as weblogs and sensor data) fall under the category of data that doesn’t conform to a rigid schema expected in relational databases. It often contain complex values […]