AWS Big Data Blog

This is a guest post by Kanti Chalasani, Division Director at Georgia Data Analytics Center (GDAC). GDAC is housed within the Georgia Office of Planning and Budget to facilitate governed data sharing between various state agencies and departments. The Office of Planning and Budget (OPB) established the Georgia Data Analytics Center (GDAC) with the intent […]

Amazon OpenSearch Service is a fully managed service at AWS for OpenSearch. It’s an open-source search and analytics suite used for a broad set of use cases, like real-time application monitoring, log analytics, and website search. While running an OpenSearch Service domain, you can choose from a variety of instances for your primary nodes and […]

Extract, transform, and load (ETL) serverless orchestration architecture applications are becoming popular with many customers. These applications offers greater extensibility and simplicity, making it easier to maintain and simplify ETL pipelines. A primary benefit of this architecture is that we simplify an existing ETL pipeline with AWS Step Functions and directly call the Amazon Redshift […]

On February 22, 2022, we launched our new Amazon QuickSight Community. Here you can ask and answer questions, network with and learn from other Business Intelligence (BI) users from across the globe, access learning content, and stay up to date with what’s new on Amazon QuickSight—all in one place! In this post, we discuss some […]

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. Amazon EventBridge is a serverless event bus that makes it easy to build event-driven applications at scale using events generated from your applications, integrated software as a service (SaaS) applications, and AWS […]

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. During the recent years, there has been a shift from monolithic to the microservices architecture. The microservices architecture makes applications easier to scale and quicker to develop, […]

OpenSearch is a distributed, open-source search and analytics suite used for a broad set of use cases like real-time application monitoring, log analytics, and website search. Amazon OpenSearch Service is a managed service that makes it easy to secure, deploy, and operate OpenSearch clusters at scale. Amazon OpenSearch Service provides a broad range of cluster […]

This post is co-authored by Dr. Yehezkel Aviv, Co-Founder and CTO of Cynamics and Sapir Kraus, Head of Engineering at Cynamics. Cynamics provides a new paradigm of cybersecurity — predicting attacks long before they hit by collecting small network samples (less than 1%), inferring from them how the full network (100%) behaves, and predicting threats […]

Amazon QuickSight Q is a new machine learning-based capability in Amazon QuickSight that enables users to ask business questions in natural language and receive answers with relevant visualizations instantly to gain insights from data. QuickSight Q doesn’t depend on prebuilt dashboards or reports to answer questions, which removes the need for business intelligence (BI) teams […]

Amazon OpenSearch Service supports a highly performant, integrated anomaly detection engine that enables the real-time identification of anomalies in streaming data. Last year, we released high-cardinality anomaly detection (HCAD) to detect individual entities’ anomalies. With the 1.1 release, we have allowed you to monitor a million entities with steady, predictable performance. HCAD is easiest when […]