AWS Big Data Blog
Code conversion from Greenplum to Amazon Redshift: Handling arrays, dates, and regular expressions
Amazon Redshift is a fully managed service for data lakes, data analytics, and data warehouses for startups, medium enterprises, and large enterprises. Amazon Redshift is used by tens of thousands of businesses around the globe for modernizing their data analytics platform. Greenplum is an open-source, massively parallel database used for analytics, mostly for on-premises infrastructure. […]
Build a search application with Amazon OpenSearch Serverless
In this post, we demonstrate how to build a simple web-based search application using the recently announced Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, a serverless option for Amazon OpenSearch Service that makes it easy to run petabyte-scale search and analytics workloads without having to think about clusters. The benefit of using OpenSearch Serverless as a backend for your […]
Green Flag uses Amazon QuickSight to democratize data and enable self-serve insights to all employees
This is a guest post by Jeremy Bristow, Head of Product at Green Flag. In the US, there’s a saying: “Sooner or later, you’ll break down and call Triple A.” In the UK, that same saying might be “Sooner or later, you’ll break down and call Green Flag.” Green Flag has been assisting stranded motorists […]
Accelerate your data exploration and experimentation with the AWS Analytics Reference Architecture library
Organizations use their data to solve complex problems by starting small, running iterative experiments, and refining the solution. Although the power of experiments can’t be ignored, organizations have to be cautious about the cost-effectiveness of such experiments. If time is spent creating the underlying infrastructure for enabling experiments, it further adds to the cost. Developers […]
Near-real-time fraud detection using Amazon Redshift Streaming Ingestion with Amazon Kinesis Data Streams and Amazon Redshift ML
The importance of data warehouses and analytics performed on data warehouse platforms has been increasing steadily over the years, with many businesses coming to rely on these systems as mission-critical for both short-term operational decision-making and long-term strategic planning. Traditionally, data warehouses are refreshed in batch cycles, for example, monthly, weekly, or daily, so that […]
How Novo Nordisk built a modern data architecture on AWS
Novo Nordisk is a leading global pharmaceutical company, responsible for producing life-saving medicines that reach more than 34 million patients each day. They do this following their triple bottom line—that they must strive to be environmentally sustainable, socially sustainable, and financially sustainable. The combination of using AWS and data supports all these targets. Data is […]
Convoy uses Amazon QuickSight to help shippers and carriers improve efficiency and save money with data-driven decisions
Convoy is the leading digital freight network in the United States. We move millions of truckloads around the country through our connected network of carriers, saving money for shippers, increasing earnings for drivers, and eliminating carbon waste for our planet. In 2015, Convoy started a movement toward efficient freight. We build technology to find smarter […]
Amazon Identity Services uses Amazon QuickSight to empower partners with self-serve data discovery
Amazon Identity Services is responsible for the way Amazon customers—buyers, sellers, developers—identify themselves on Amazon. Our team also manages customers’ core account information, such as names and delivery addresses. Our mission is to deliver the most intuitive, convenient, and secure authentication experience. We’re in charge of account security for Amazon, worldwide, on all device surfaces. […]
Create your own reusable visual transforms for AWS Glue Studio
AWS Glue Studio has recently added the possibility of adding custom transforms that you can use to build visual jobs to use them in combination with the AWS Glue Studio components provided out of the box. You can now define custom visual transform by simply dropping a JSON file and a Python script onto Amazon […]
Clickedu uses Amazon QuickSight Embedded to empower school administrators with key educational institution health insights
This is a guest post by Ignasi Nogués and Georgina Valls from Clickedu. With more than 1.5 million unique users across 700 schools and core values that include connectivity, reliability, and innovation, Clickedu is the leading educational platform in Spain. Offering both a school administration system and a digital learning environment, Clickedu is one of […]