AWS Big Data Blog

Matt Yanchyshyn is a Principal Solutions Architect with Amazon Web Services Introduction In the first two parts of this series we discussed two popular products–out of many possible solutions–for moving big data into the cloud: Tsunami UDP and Data Expedition’s ExpeDat S3 Gateway. Today we’ll look at another option that takes a different approach: Signiant […]

Matt Yanchyshyn is a Principal Solutions Architect with Amazon Web Services Introduction A previous blog post (Moving Big Data Into the Cloud with Tsunami UDP) discussed how Tsunami UDP is a fast and easy way to move large amounts of data to and from AWS. Specifically, we showed how you can use it to move […]

Matt Yanchyshyn is a Principal Solutions Architect with Amazon Web Services AWS Solutions Architect Leo Zhadanovsky also contributed to this post. Introduction One of the biggest challenges facing companies that want to leverage the scale and elasticity of AWS for analytics is how to move their data into the cloud. It’s increasingly common to have […]

Ian Meyers is a Solutions Architecture Senior Manager with AWS Amazon Kinesis provides a scalable and highly available platform for ingesting data from thousands of clients. Once data is available on a Kinesis stream, you can build applications to process the data using the Kinesis Client Library (KCL). KCL provides a framework for managing many […]

NOTE: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is a fully managed service for delivering real-time streaming data to Amazon Redshift. For more information, please visit the Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose documentation page, “Choosing Amazon Redshift for Your Destination.” ——————————————– Ian Meyers is a Solutions Architecture Senior Manager with AWS Data analysts always want the newest data in […]

Nate Wiger is Principal Gaming Solutions Architect for AWS. Dave Lang, Senior Product Manager for Amazon DynamoDB, also contributed to this article. Amazon DynamoDB is rapidly becoming the go-to database for many of the fastest-growing games in the world. Games like Fruit Ninja (from Halfbrick Studios) and Battle Camp (from PennyPop) have leveraged Amazon DynamoDB’s […]

This is a guest post by Andrew Musselman, who as chief data scientist leads the global big data practice from the technical side at Accenture. He is a PMC member on the Apache Mahout project and is writing a book on data science for O’Reilly. Accenture is an APN Big Data Competency Partner. This post […]