AWS Big Data Blog

In the dynamic world of cloud computing, ensuring the resilience and availability of critical applications is paramount. Disaster recovery (DR) is the process by which an organization anticipates and addresses technology-related disasters. For organizations implementing critical workload orchestration using Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA), it is crucial to have a DR plan […]

Many organizations, small and large, are working to migrate and modernize their analytics workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS). There are many reasons for customers to migrate to AWS, but one of the main reasons is the ability to use fully managed services rather than spending time maintaining infrastructure, patching, monitoring, backups, and more. Leadership […]

Thousands of developers use Apache Flink to build streaming applications to transform and analyze data in real time. Apache Flink is an open source framework and engine for processing data streams. It’s highly available and scalable, delivering high throughput and low latency for the most demanding stream-processing applications. Monitoring and scaling your applications is critical […]

Amazon OpenSearch Service recently introduced Multi-AZ with Standby, a deployment option designed to provide businesses with enhanced availability and consistent performance for critical workloads. With this feature, managed clusters can achieve 99.99% availability while remaining resilient to zonal infrastructure failures. In this post, we explore how search and indexing works with Multi-AZ with Standby and […]

What users expect from search engines has evolved over the years. Just returning lexically relevant results quickly is no longer enough for most users. Now users seek methods that allow them to get even more relevant results through semantic understanding or even search through image visual similarities instead of textual search of metadata. Amazon OpenSearch […]

We’re living in the age of real-time data and insights, driven by low-latency data streaming applications. Today, everyone expects a personalized experience in any application, and organizations are constantly innovating to increase their speed of business operation and decision making. The volume of time-sensitive data produced is increasing rapidly, with different formats of data being […]

We recently announced a new enhancement to OpenSearch Serverless for managing data retention of Time Series collections and Indexes. OpenSearch Serverless for Amazon OpenSearch Service makes it straightforward to run search and analytics workloads without having to think about infrastructure management. With the new automated time-based data deletion feature, you can specify how long they want […]

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. Kinesis Agent is a standalone Java software application that offers a straightforward way to collect and send data to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams and Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose. The agent continuously monitors […]

This is a guest post co-written by Alex Naumov, Principal Data Architect at smava. smava GmbH is one of the leading financial services companies in Germany, making personal loans transparent, fair, and affordable for consumers. Based on digital processes, smava compares loan offers from more than 20 banks. In this way, borrowers can choose the […]

As the volume and complexity of analytics workloads continue to grow, customers are looking for more efficient and cost-effective ways to ingest and analyse data. Data is stored from online systems such as the databases, CRMs, and marketing systems to data stores such as data lakes on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), data warehouses […]