AWS Big Data Blog

What if you could control the access to your data lake centrally? Would it be more convenient to share specific data securely with internal and external customers? With AWS Lake Formation and its integration with Amazon EMR, you can easily perform these administrative tasks. This post goes through a use case and reviews the steps to control the data access and permissions of your existing data lake.

This post demonstrates how to develop a comprehensive, wave-based application migration methodology for a complex project to modernize a traditional MPP data warehouse with Amazon Redshift. It provides best practices and lessons learned by considering business priority, data dependency, workload profiles and existing service level agreements (SLAs).

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Amazon OpenSearch Service is a fully managed service that makes it easy for you to deploy, secure, and operate OpenSearch in AWS at scale. It’s a widely popular service and different customers integrate it in their applications for different search […]

AWS is happy to announce the release of Amazon EMR Managed Scaling—a new feature that automatically resizes your cluster for best performance at the lowest possible cost. With EMR Managed Scaling you specify the minimum and maximum compute limits for your clusters and Amazon EMR automatically resizes them for best performance and resource utilization. EMR Managed Scaling continuously samples key metrics associated with the workloads running on clusters. EMR Managed Scaling is supported for Apache Spark, Apache Hive and YARN-based workloads on Amazon EMR versions 5.30.1 and above.

With Amazon Redshift Spectrum, you can query the data in your Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lake using a central AWS Glue metastore from your Amazon Redshift cluster. This capability extends your petabyte-scale Amazon Redshift data warehouse to unbounded data storage limits, which allows you to scale to exabytes of data cost-effectively. Like Amazon EMR, you get the benefits of open data formats and inexpensive storage, and you can scale out to thousands of Redshift Spectrum nodes to pull data, filter, project, aggregate, group, and sort. Like Amazon Athena, Redshift Spectrum is serverless and there’s nothing to provision or manage. You only pay $5 for every 1 TB of data scanned. This post discusses how to configure Amazon Redshift security to enable fine grained access control using role chaining to achieve high-fidelity user-based permission management.

This post demonstrates how to extend the Lake Formation security model to QuickSight users and groups, which allows data lake administrators to manage data catalog resource permissions centrally from one console. As organizations embark on the journey to secure their data lakes with Lake Formation, having the ability to centrally manage fine-grained permissions for QuickSight authors can extend the data governance and enforcement of security controls at the data consumption (business intelligence) layer. You can enable these fine-grained permissions for QuickSight users and groups at the database, table, or column level, and they’re reflected in the Athena dataset in QuickSight.

Amazon QuickSight is a fast, cloud-powered, business intelligence service that makes it easy to deliver insights and integrates seamlessly with your data lake built on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). QuickSight users in your organization often need access to only a subset of columns for compliance and security reasons. Without having a proper solution […]

We parse through millions of scooter and user events generated daily (over 300 events per second) to extract actionable insight. We selected AWS Glue to perform this task. Our primary ETL job reads the newly added raw event data from Amazon S3, processes it using Apache Spark, and writes the results to our Amazon Redshift data warehouse. AWS Glue plays a critical role in our ability to scale on demand. After careful evaluation and testing, we concluded that AWS Glue ETL jobs meet all our needs and free us from procuring and managing infrastructure.

Content, such as breaking news or sports scores, requires updates in near-real-time. To stay up to date, you may be constantly refreshing your browser or mobile app. Building APIs to deliver this content at speed and scale can be challenging. In this post, I present an alternative to an API-based approach. I outline the concept […]

We often have data processing requirements in which we need to merge multiple datasets with varying data ingestion frequencies. Some of these datasets are ingested one time in full, received infrequently, and always used in their entirety, whereas other datasets are incremental, received at certain intervals, and joined with the full datasets to generate output. To address this requirement, this post demonstrates how to build an extract, transform, and load (ETL) pipeline using AWS Glue.