AWS Big Data Blog

This is a guest post by from Chitradeep Barman and Yaniv Ackerman  from Amazon Finance Technology (FinTech). Amazon Finance Technology (FinTech) is responsible for financial reporting on Earth’s largest transaction dataset, as the central organization supporting accounting and tax operations across Amazon. Amazon FinTech’s accounting, tax, and business finance teams close books and file taxes […]

Amazon QuickSight is a fully-managed, cloud-native business intelligence (BI) service that makes it easy to create and deliver insights to everyone in your organization or even with your customers and partners. You can make your data come to life with rich interactive charts and create beautiful dashboards to be shared with thousands of users, either […]

Data lakes are a centralized repository for storing structured and unstructured data at scale. Data lakes enable you to create dashboards, perform big data processing and real-time analytics, and create machine learning (ML) models on your data to drive business decisions. Many customers are choosing AWS Lake Formation as their data lake management solution. Lake […]

High availability (HA) is the property of a system or service to operate continuously without failing for a designated period of time. Implementing HA properties over a system allows you to eliminate single points of failure that usually translate to service disruptions, which can then lead to a business loss or the inability to use […]

July 2023: This post was reviewed for accuracy. AWS Glue DataBrew offers over 350 pre-built transformations to automate data preparation tasks (such as filtering anomalies, standardizing formats, and correcting invalid values) that would otherwise require days or weeks writing hand-coded transformations. You can now choose single or multiple output files instead of autogenerated files for […]

June 2023: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. In recent evolution in data lake technologies, it became popular to bring ACID (atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability) transactions on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). You can achieve that by introducing open-source data lake formats such as Apache Hudi, Apache Iceberg, and Delta Lake. […]

As AWS’s fast, petabyte-scale cloud data warehouse delivering the best price-performance, Amazon Redshift makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data using standard SQL, your existing ETL (extract, transform, and load), business intelligence (BI), and reporting tools quickly and securely. Tens of thousands of customers use Amazon Redshift to analyze exabytes of data […]

Data warehouses and data lakes are key to an enterprise data management strategy. A data lake is a centralized repository that consolidates your data in any format at any scale and makes it available for different kinds of analytics. A data warehouse, on the other hand, has cleansed, enriched, and transformed data that is optimized […]

Enterprise customers are modernizing their data warehouses and data lakes to provide real-time insights, because having the right insights at the right time is crucial for good business outcomes. To enable near-real-time decision-making, data pipelines need to process real-time or near-real-time data. This data is sourced from IoT devices, change data capture (CDC) services like […]

Amazon QuickSight is a fully-managed, cloud-native business intelligence (BI) service that makes it easy to create and deliver insights to everyone in your organization or even with your customers and partners. You can make your data come to life with rich interactive charts and create beautiful dashboards to share with thousands of users, either directly […]