AWS Big Data Blog

AWS provides many ways to optimize your workloads and save on costs. For example, services like AWS Cost Explorer and AWS Trusted Advisor provide cost savings recommendations to help you optimize your AWS environments. However, you may also want to estimate cost savings when comparing Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Spot to On-Demand Instances. […]

Bill.com is a leading provider of cloud-based software that simplifies, digitizes, and automates back-office financial processes for small and mid-size businesses. Bill.com helps businesses streamline their financial workflow, generate and process invoices, stream approvals, send and receive payments, sync with their accounting systems, and manage their cash. It connects businesses from all industries, ranging from […]

January 2023: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. Amazon QuickSight is a fast, cloud-powered, business intelligence (BI) service that makes it easy to deliver insights to everyone in your organization. With the QuickSight Enterprise edition, you can also embed the QuickSight dashboard into a webpage or your custom application. Salesforce is an AWS […]

Organizations across the globe are striving to improve the scalability and cost efficiency of the data warehouse. Offloading data and data processing from a data warehouse to a data lake empowers companies to introduce new use cases like ad hoc data analysis and AI and machine learning (ML), reusing the same data stored on Amazon […]

This is a blog post co-written by Karl Platz at Isentia. In their own words, “Isentia is the leading media monitoring, intelligence and insights solution provider in Asia Pacific, helping top-performing communication teams make sense of the world’s conversations in real-time.” Isentia is a publicly listed (ASX:ISD) media monitoring and intelligence company that provides software […]

The global wearables market grew 35.1% year over year during the third quarter of 2020, with total shipments reaching 125 million units according to new data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker. The surge was driven by seasonality, new product launches, and the health concerns during the global pandemic. Given […]

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Amazon OpenSearch Service recently launched support for remote reindexing. This feature adds the ability to copy data to an Amazon OpenSearch Service domain from self-managed Elasticsearch running on-premises, self-managed on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) on AWS, or another […]

You can now use an Amazon Redshift-managed VPC endpoint (powered by AWS PrivateLink) to connect to your private Amazon Redshift cluster with the RA3-instance type within your virtual private cloud (VPC). With an Amazon Redshift-managed VPC endpoint, you can privately access your Amazon Redshift data warehouse within your VPC from your client applications in another […]

AWS Glue is fully managed service that makes it easier for you to extract, transform, and load (ETL) data for analytics. You can easily create ETL jobs to connect to backend data sources. There are several natively supported data sources, but what if you need to extract data from an unsupported data source? What if […]

This blog post was last updated July, 2022 to update the new version of the connector and details on how to push down queries to Google BigQuery. The cloud is often seen as advantageous for data lakes because of better security, faster time to deployment, better availability, more frequent feature and functionality updates, more elasticity, […]