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Amazon OpenSearch Service is a fully managed service that you can use to deploy and operate OpenSearch clusters cost-effectively at scale in the AWS Cloud. The service makes it easy for you to perform interactive log analytics, real-time application monitoring, website search, and more by offering the latest versions of OpenSearch, support for 19 versions […]

Amazon Redshift is a fast, scalable, secure, and fully managed cloud data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data using standard SQL. Amazon Redshift offers up to three times better price performance than any other cloud data warehouse, and can expand to petabyte scale. Today, tens of thousands of AWS […]

This post was co-written with Michael Gorham, Co-Founder and CTO of ConexED. ConexED is one of the country’s fastest-growing EdTech companies designed specifically for education to enhance the student experience and elevate student success. Founded as a startup in 2008 to remove obstacles that hinder student persistence and access to student services, ConexED provides advisors, […]

Amazon OpenSearch Service recently announced support for Index Transforms. You can use Index Transforms to extract meaningful information from an existing index, and store the aggregated information in a new index. The key benefit of Index Transforms is faster retrieval of data by performing aggregations, grouping in advance, and storing those results in summarized views. For […]

Amazon OpenSearch Service is a fully managed service that makes it easy to deploy, secure, and run Elasticsearch cost-effectively at scale. Amazon OpenSearch Service supports many use cases, including application monitoring, search, security information and event management (SIEM), and infrastructure monitoring. Amazon OpenSearch Service also offers a rich set of functionalities such as UltraWarm, fine-grained […]

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is the easiest way to reliably load streaming data into data lakes, data stores, and analytics services. Customers already use Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose to ingest raw data […]

This post was written in collaboration with Abdulsalam Alshallah (Salam), Software Architect, and Hans Roessler, Principal Software Engineer at SEEK Asia. SEEK is a market leader in online employment marketplaces with deep and rich insights into the future of work. As a global business, SEEK has a presence in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, Brazil and Mexico and its websites attract over 400 million visits per year. SEEK Asia’s business operates across seven countries and includes leading portal brands such as jobsdb.com and jobstreet.com and leverages data and technology to create innovative solutions for candidates and hirers.

In this post, we share how SEEK Asia modernized their search-based system with a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline and Amazon OpenSearch Service.

Live analytics refers to the process of preparing and measuring data as soon as it enters the database or persistent store. In other words, you get insights or arrive at conclusions immediately. Live analytics enables businesses to respond to events without delay. You can seize opportunities or prevent problems before they happen. Speed is the […]

June 2023: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. Amazon Redshift is a fast, petabyte-scale cloud data warehouse delivering the best price–performance. Tens of thousands of customers use Amazon Redshift to process exabytes of data every day to power their analytics workloads. Data analysts and database developers want to use this data to train […]

Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run. In November 2020, Athena announced the General Availability of the V2 […]