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Amazon Redshift is a cloud data warehouse database that provides fast, consistent performance running complex analytical queries on huge datasets scaling into petabytes and even exabytes with Amazon Redshift Spectrum. Although Amazon Redshift has excellent query performance out of the box, with up to three times better price performance than other cloud data warehouses, you […]

August 30, 2023: Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics has been renamed to Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink. Read the announcement in the AWS News Blog and learn more. Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink Studio makes it easy to analyze streaming data in real time and build stream processing applications powered by Apache Flink using […]

This post was last updated July 2022. With Amazon EMR 6.7, all Apache Spark DDL’s are now supported, except for CREATE VIEW. For details, see the section under “limitations”. NOTE: You will need to redeploy Spark service definition (link) on your Apache Ranger server. Instructions on how to redeploy can be found here. With Amazon […]

This blog post was last reviewed and updated May, 2022 to include AWS Lake Formation resource sharing model. Many AWS customers use a multi-account strategy to host applications for different departments within the same company. However, you might deploy services like Amazon QuickSight using a single-account approach, which raises challenges when you need to use […]

August 2023: This post was reviewed and updated to include new features. Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed cloud data warehouse that provides a web-based query editor in addition to supporting connectivity via ODBC/JDBC or the Redshift Data API. Tens of thousands of customers use Amazon Redshift as their analytics platform. Data analysts, database developers, […]

Many AWS customers use multiple AWS accounts and Regions across different departments and applications within the same company. However, you might deploy services like Amazon QuickSight using a single-account approach to centralize users, data source access, and dashboard management. This post explores how you can use different Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) private connectivity features to connect QuickSight […]

This blog post was last updated on September 14th 2022 to reflect the launch being generally available in all QuickSight regions. More details here. Amazon QuickSight launched changes in the sign-in domain and a new look and feel while signing in. This doesn’t impact your access to QuickSight. In this post, we walk through changes […]

The latest update of Amazon QuickSight introduces a new free-form dashboard layout option, along with granular per-visual interaction controls and conditional rendering options that open up a range of creative possibilities for dashboard authors. In this post, we look at the new capabilities available and how you can use them to create and share stunning […]

August 30, 2023: Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics has been renamed to Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink. Read the announcement in the AWS News Blog and learn more. This post presents a reference architecture and optimization strategies for building serverless data analytics solutions on AWS using Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics. In addition, this post shows […]

Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS provides a deployment option for Amazon EMR that allows you to run analytics workloads on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). This is an attractive option because it allows you to run applications on a common pool of resources without having to provision infrastructure. In addition, you can use Amazon […]