AWS Big Data Blog

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Amazon QuickSight now supports personalization of email reports by user, which allows you to send customized snapshots of data in either PDF or image formats. This allows you to create a single dashboard that you can configure to load with different defaults for each user, providing a customized view of the dashboard in both email […]

The AWS Glue Data Catalog provides partition indexes to accelerate queries on highly partitioned tables. In the post Improve query performance using AWS Glue partition indexes, we demonstrated how partition indexes reduce the time it takes to fetch partition information during the planning phase of queries run on Amazon EMR, Amazon Redshift Spectrum, and AWS […]

This is a guest post by Accelo. In their own words, “Accelo is the leading cloud-based platform for managing client work, from prospect to payment, for professional services companies. Each month, tens of thousands of Accelo users across 43 countries create more than 3 million activities, log 1.2 million hours of work, and generate over […]

This blog post was updated in June, 2022 to update the entity relationship diagram. Building a highly performant data model for an enterprise data warehouse (EDW) has historically involved significant design, development, administration, and operational effort. Furthermore, the data model must be agile and adaptable to change while handling the largest volumes of data efficiently. […]

Amazon Redshift is the leading cloud data warehouse that delivers up to 3x better price performance compared to other cloud data warehouses by using massively parallel query execution, columnar storage on high-performance disks, and results caching. You can confidently run mission-critical workloads, even in highly regulated industries, because Amazon Redshift comes with out-of-the-box security and […]

Amazon QuickSight is a scalable business intelligence (BI) service built for the cloud, which allows insights to be shared with all users in the organization. QuickSight offers SPICE, an in-memory, cloud-native data store that allows end-users to interactively explore data. SPICE provides consistently fast query performance and automatically scales for high concurrency. With SPICE, you […]

Amazon Redshift is a fast, scalable, secure, and fully managed cloud data warehouse that enables you to analyze your data at scale. You can interact with an Amazon Redshift database in several different ways. One method is using an object-relational mapping (ORM) framework. ORM is widely used by developers as an abstraction layer upon the […]

Amazon QuickSight is a fully-managed, cloud-native business intelligence (BI) service that makes it easy to connect to your data, create interactive dashboards, and share these with tens of thousands of users, either within the QuickSight interface, or embedded in software as a service (SaaS) applications or web portals. Unlike many of the other solutions in […]

You can query Application Load Balancer (ALB) access logs for various purposes, such as analyzing traffic distribution and patterns. You can also easily use Amazon Athena to create a table and query against the ALB access logs on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). (For more information, see How do I analyze my Application Load […]