AWS Big Data Blog

Visual representation of the relationships of the high level entities in the customer, event and product subject areas

How ActionIQ built a truly composable customer data platform using Amazon Redshift

This post is written in collaboration with Mackenzie Johnson and Phil Catterall from ActionIQ. ActionIQ is a leading composable customer data (CDP) platform designed for enterprise brands to grow faster and deliver meaningful experiences for their customers. ActionIQ taps directly into a brand’s data warehouse to build smart audiences, resolve customer identities, and design personalized […]

Streamline your data governance by deploying Amazon DataZone with the AWS CDK

Managing data across diverse environments can be a complex and daunting task. Amazon DataZone simplifies this so you can catalog, discover, share, and govern data stored across AWS, on premises, and third-party sources. Many organizations manage vast amounts of data assets owned by various teams, creating a complex landscape that poses challenges for scalable data […]

Migrate from Apache Solr to OpenSearch

OpenSearch is an open source, distributed search engine suitable for a wide array of use-cases such as ecommerce search, enterprise search (content management search, document search, knowledge management search, and so on), site search, application search, and semantic search. It’s also an analytics suite that you can use to perform interactive log analytics, real-time application […]

How Volkswagen streamlined access to data across multiple data lakes using Amazon DataZone – Part 1

This blog post introduces Amazon DataZone and explores how VW used it to build their data mesh to enable streamlined data access across multiple data lakes. It focuses on the key aspect of the solution, which was enabling data providers to automatically publish data assets to Amazon DataZone, which served as the central data mesh for enhanced data discoverability. Additionally, the post provides code to guide you through the implementation.

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Building a scalable streaming data platform that enables real-time and batch analytics of electric vehicles on AWS

The automobile industry has undergone a remarkable transformation because of the increasing adoption of electric vehicles (EVs). EVs, known for their sustainability and eco-friendliness, are paving the way for a new era in transportation. As environmental concerns and the push for greener technologies have gained momentum, the adoption of EVs has surged, promising to reshape […]

Migrate data from an on-premises Hadoop environment to Amazon S3 using S3DistCp with AWS Direct Connect

This post demonstrates how to migrate nearly any amount of data from an on-premises Apache Hadoop environment to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) by using S3DistCp on Amazon EMR with AWS Direct Connect. To transfer resources from a target EMR cluster, the traditional Hadoop DistCp must be run on the source cluster to move […]

Flow of logs from source to destination. All logs are sent to Cribl which routes portions of logs to the SIEM, portions to Amazon OpenSearch, and copies of logs to Amazon S3.

How Zurich Insurance Group built a log management solution on AWS

This post is written in collaboration with Clarisa Tavolieri, Austin Rappeport and Samantha Gignac from Zurich Insurance Group. The growth in volume and number of logging sources has been increasing exponentially over the last few years, and will continue to increase in the coming years. As a result, customers across all industries are facing multiple […]

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How PostNL processes billions of IoT events with Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink

This post is co-written with Çağrı Çakır and Özge Kavalcı from PostNL. PostNL is the designated universal postal service provider for the Netherlands and has three main business units offering postal delivery, parcel delivery, and logistics solutions for ecommerce and cross-border solutions. With 5,800 retail points, 11,000 mailboxes, and over 900 automated parcel lockers, the […]

Protein similarity search using ProtT5-XL-UniRef50 and Amazon OpenSearch Service

A protein is a sequence of amino acids that, when chained together, creates a 3D structure. This 3D structure allows the protein to bind to other structures within the body and initiate changes. This binding is core to the working of many drugs. A common workflow within drug discovery is searching for similar proteins, because […]

Improve your Amazon OpenSearch Service performance with OpenSearch Optimized Instances

Amazon OpenSearch Service introduced the OpenSearch Optimized Instances (OR1), deliver price-performance improvement over existing instances. The newly introduced OR1 instances are ideally tailored for heavy indexing use cases like log analytics and observability workloads. OR1 instances use a local and a remote store. The local storage utilizes either Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) of […]