AWS Big Data Blog

Amazon OpenSearch Service is fully open-source search and analytics engine that securely unlocks real-time search, monitoring, and analysis of business and operational data for use cases like application monitoring, log analytics, observability, and website search. But what if you have personal identifiable information (PII) data in your log data? How do you control and audit […]

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 on datasets at petabyte scale. You can use Athena to query […]

AWS re:Invent is a learning conference hosted by AWS for the global cloud computing community. This year’s re:Invent will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, from November 28 to December 2. Amazon QuickSight is the most popular cloud-native serverless BI service. This post walks you through the details of all QuickSight-related sessions and activities to […]

The California State University Chancellor’s Office (CSUCO) sits at the center of America’s most significant and diverse 4-year universities. The California State University (CSU) serves approximately 477,000 students and employs more than 55,000 staff and faculty members across 23 universities and 7 off-campus centers. The CSU provides students with opportunities to develop intellectually and personally, […]

In the first post in our series , we discussed setting up a microservice observability architecture and application troubleshooting steps using log and trace correlation with Amazon OpenSearch Service. In this post, we discuss using PPL to create visualizations in operational panels, and creating a simple incident report using notebooks. To try out the solution […]

This is a guest post by Mehdi Bendriss, Mohamad Shaker, and Arvid Reiche from Scout24. At Scout24 SE, we love data pipelines, with over 700 pipelines running daily in production, spread across over 100 AWS accounts. As we democratize data and our data platform tooling, each team can create, maintain, and run their own data pipelines […]

Join the global cloud community at AWS re:Invent this year to meet, get inspired, and rethink what’s possible! Reserved seating is available for registered attendees to secure seats in the sessions of their choice. You can reserve a seat in your favorite sessions by signing in to the attendee portal and navigating to Event > Sessions. For those who can’t […]

Modern enterprises are increasingly adopting microservice architectures and moving away from monolithic structures. Although microservices provide agility in development and scalability, and encourage use of polyglot systems, they also add complexity. Troubleshooting distributed services is hard because the application behavioral data is distributed across multiple machines. Therefore, in order to have deep insights to troubleshoot […]

Organizations are adopting Apache Kafka and Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) to capture and analyze data in real-time. Amazon MSK allows you to build and run production applications on Apache Kafka without needing Kafka infrastructure management expertise or having to deal with the complex overheads associated with running Apache Kafka on your […]

Amazon QuickSight is a fully managed, cloud-native business intelligence (BI) service. If you plan to deploy enterprise-grade QuickSight dashboards, measuring user adoption and usage patterns is an important ingredient for the success of your BI investment. For example, knowing the usage patterns like geo location, department, and job role can help you fine-tune your dashboards […]