AWS Big Data Blog

In this post, I show you how to gain valuable insight into your network by using Amazon EMR and Amazon VPC Flow Logs. The walkthrough implements a pattern often found in network equipment called ‘Top Talkers’, an ordered list of the heaviest network users, but the model can also be used for many other types of network analysis.

In this post, I introduce a simple data ingestion and preparation framework based on AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB, and Apache Hive on EMR for data from different sources landing in S3. This solution lets Hive pick up new partitions as data is loaded into S3 because Hive by itself cannot detect new partitions as data lands.

Please join us at the upcoming Seattle AWS Big Data Meetup on Wednesday, August 31. The topic is “Building Smart Healthcare Apps on AWS,” with a spotlight on machine learning. Join now and get details on the Meetup page Lisa McFerrin, PhD, Bioinformatics is a Project Manager for Seattle Translational Tumor Research at Fred Hutchinson […]

In this post, I suggest ways you can monitor the Amazon Kinesis Client Library (KCL) application you use to process DynamoDB Streams to quickly track and resolve issues or failures so you can avoid losing data. Dashboards, metrics, and application logs all play a part. This post may be most relevant to Java applications running on Amazon EC2 instances.

This post introduces you to Amazon Kinesis Analytics, the fundamentals of writing ANSI-Standard SQL over streaming data, and works through a simple example application that continuously generates metrics over time windows.

This post shows you how to build a custom application for EMR for Apache Bigtop-based releases 4.x and greater. EMR nodes are based on the Amazon Linux AMI, so I will deploy on RPM packages and use Elasticsearch as the example application.

In this post, I show how to apply advanced analytics concepts like pattern analysis and machine learning to do risk stratification for patient cohorts.

July was a busy month of big data solutions on the Big Data Blog. The month started with our most popular story yet, Generating Recommendations at Amazon Scale with Apache Spark and Amazon DSSTNE. It was a great post to start a spectacular month. Take a look at our summaries below. Learn, comment, and share. […]

Jonathan Fritz is a Senior Product Manager for Amazon EMR We are excited to launch Amazon EMR release 5.0 today, giving customers the latest versions of 16 supported open-source applications in the big data ecosystem, including new major versions of Spark and Hive. Almost exactly a year ago, we shipped release 4.0, which brought significant […]

In this blog post, you will learn how to install JobServer on EMR using a bootstrap action (BA) derived from the JobServer GitHub repository. Then we’ll run JobServer using a sample dataset.