AWS Big Data Blog

Babu Elumalai is a Solutions Architect with AWS Organizations are generating tremendous amounts of data, and they increasingly need tools and systems that help them use this data to make decisions. The data has both immediate value (for example, trying to understand how a new promotion is performing in real time) and historic value (trying […]

Bob Strahan is a Senior Consultant with AWS Professional Services AWS Lambda has emerged as excellent compute platform for modern microservices architecture, driving dramatic advancements in flexibility, resilience, scale and cost effectiveness. Many customers can take advantage of this transformational technology from within their existing relational database applications. In this post, we explore how to […]

Lots to see on the Big Data Blog in April! Please take a look at the summaries below for something that catches your interest. Exploring Geospatial Intelligence using SparkR on Amazon EMR The number of data sources that use location, such as smartphones and sensory devices used in IoT (Internet of things), is expanding rapidly. […]

Join and RSVP! AWS Speaker Guy Ernest, business development manager for machine learning services in AWS “No Dr., or How I Learned to Stop Debugging and Love the Robot” In this talk, Guy will dicuss what developers must know to explore the power of machine learning services in the cloud. Using data to build machine […]

Russell Nash is a Solutions Architect with AWS. Amo Abeyaratne, a Big Data consultant with AWS, also contributed to this post. One of the most powerful features of Amazon EMR is the close integration with Amazon S3 through EMRFS. This allows you to take advantage of many S3 features, including support for S3 client-side and […]

The AWS Big Data Blog has a large community of authors who are passionate about Apache Spark and who regularly publish content that helps customers use Spark to build real-world solutions. You’ll see content on a variety of topics, including deep-dives on Spark’s internals, building Spark Streaming applications, creating machine learning pipelines using MLlib, and ways […]

Ben Snively is a Solutions Architect with AWS Jon Fritz, a Senior Product Manager for Amazon EMR, co-authored this post With today’s launch of Amazon EMR release 4.6, you can now quickly and easily provision a cluster with Apache HBase 1.2. Apache HBase is a massively scalable, distributed big data store in the Apache Hadoop ecosystem. It is […]

Join and RSVP! AWS Speaker Guy Ernest, business development manager for machine learning services in AWS “No Dr., or How I Learned to Stop Debugging and Love the Robot” In this talk, Guy will dicuss what developers must know to explore the power of machine learning services in the cloud. Using data to build machine […]

James Norvell is a Big Data Cloud Support Engineer for AWS Many Amazon EMR customers have architectures that track events and streams and store data in S3. This frequently leads to many small files. It’s now well known that Hadoop doesn’t deal well with small files. This issue can be amplified when migrating from Hadoop […]

Gone are the days when big data was confined to batch processing.  To remain competitive, companies must be able to analyze real-time data streams in areas such as video streaming, real-time recommendation engines, preventive maintenance, and fraud detection applications. Last month, Siva Raghupathy and Manjeet Chayel presented “Building a scalable architecture for processing streaming data […]