AWS Big Data Blog

CI/CD in the context of application development is a well-understood topic, and developers can choose from numerous patterns and tools to build their pipelines to handle the build, test, and deploy cycle when a new commit gets into version control. For stored procedures or even schema changes that are directly related to the application, this […]

Extract, transform, and load (ETL) orchestration is a common mechanism for building big data pipelines. Orchestration for parallel ETL processing requires the use of multiple tools to perform a variety of operations. To simplify the orchestration, you can use AWS Glue workflows. This post demonstrates how to accomplish parallel ETL orchestration using AWS Glue workflows […]

Amazon QuickSight is a fast and cloud-powered business intelligence (BI) service that makes it easy to create and deliver insights to everyone in your organization without any servers or infrastructure. QuickSight dashboards can also be embedded into applications and portals to deliver insights to external stakeholders. And QuickSight Q lets end-users simply ask questions in […]

Amazon QuickSight is a fully-managed, cloud-native business intelligence (BI) service that makes it easy to connect to your data, create interactive dashboards, and share these with tens of thousands of users, either within the QuickSight interface, or embedded in software as a service (SaaS) applications or web portals. Unlike many BI solutions in the market […]

AWS re:Invent is a learning conference hosted by AWS for the global cloud computing community. This year’s re:Invent was held in person in Las Vegas from November 29th through December 3rd. AWS is also hosting virtual re:invent for attendees to access on demand content. Register now for virtual re:invent or subscribe to the AWS Events […]

Amazon Athena is an interactive serverless query service to query data from Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) in standard SQL. Amazon OpenSearch Service is a fully managed, open-source, distributed search and analytics suite derived from Elasticsearch, allowing you to run OpenSearch Service or Elasticsearch clusters at scale without having to manage hardware provisioning, software […]

Microsoft SharePoint is a document management system for storing files, organizing documents, and sharing and editing documents in collaboration with others. Your organization may want to ingest SharePoint data into your data lake, combine the SharePoint data with other data that’s available in the data lake, and use it for reporting and analytics purposes. AWS […]

This post was co-written with Dr. Yannick Misteli, João Antunes, and Krzysztof Wisniewski from the Roche global Platform and ML engineering team as the lead authors. Roche is a Swiss multinational healthcare company that operates worldwide. Roche is the largest pharmaceutical company in the world and the leading provider of cancer treatments globally. In this […]

August 2023: This post was reviewed and updated with new features. Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed cloud data warehouse. Tens of thousands of customers use Amazon Redshift as their analytics platform. Users such as data analysts, database developers, and data scientists use SQL to analyze their data in Amazon Redshift data warehouses. Amazon […]

Nov 2022: Newer version of the product is now available to be used for this post. AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it easy to discover, prepare, and combine data for analytics, machine learning (ML), and application development. In AWS Glue, you can use Apache Spark, which is an open-source, distributed processing […]