AWS Big Data Blog

awVadim Astakhov is a Solutions Architect with AWS Some big data customers want to analyze new data in response to a specific event, and they might already have well-defined pipelines to perform batch processing, orchestrated by AWS Data Pipeline. One example of event-triggered pipelines is when data analysts must analyze data as soon as it […]

At AWS re:Invent 2017, we announced the preview of Amazon Neptune, a fast and reliable graph database built for the cloud. Though this blog post still shows the benefits a graph database can deliver for certain use cases, if you are about to build an application yourself and need a graph database, you should first […]

For those of you who were able to attend AWS re:Invent 2015 last week or watched sessions through our live stream, thanks for participating in the conference. We hope you left feeling inspired to tackle your big data projects with tools in the AWS ecosystem and partner solutions. Also, we were excited for our customers […]

Derek Graeber is a Senior Consultant in Big Data Analytics for AWS Professional Services Streaming data analytics is becoming main-stream (pun intended) in large enterprises as the technology stacks have become more user-friendly to implement. For example, Spark-Streaming connected to an Amazon Kinesis stream is a typical model for real-time analytics. But one area that […]

Wangechi Doble is a Solutions Architect with AWS Organizations are experiencing a proliferation of data. This data includes logs, sensor data, social media data, and transactional data, and resides in the cloud, on premises, or as high-volume, real-time data feeds. It is increasingly important to analyze this data: stakeholders want information that is timely, accurate, […]

Songzhi Liu is a Professional Services Consultant with AWS You can now launch Presto version 0.119 on Amazon EMR, allowing you to easily spin up a managed EMR cluster with the Presto query engine and run interactive analysis on data stored in Amazon S3. You can integrate with Spot instances, publish logs to an S3 […]

Roy Ben-Alta is a Business Development Manager – Big Data & Analytics If you will be attending re:Invent 2015 in Las Vegas next week, you know that you’ll have many opportunities to learn more about Big Data & Analytics on AWS at the conference–and this year we have over 20 sessions! The following breakout sessions compose this […]

This is a guest post by Sourabh Bajaj, a Software Engineer at Coursera. Coursera in their own words: “Coursera is an online educational startup with over 14 million learners across the globe. We offer more than 1000 courses from over 120 top universities.” At Coursera, we use Amazon Redshift as our primary data warehouse because […]

Ian Meyers is a Solutions Architecture Senior Manager with AWS Amazon DynamoDB is a fast, flexible, and fully managed NoSQL database service that supports both document and key-value store models that need consistent, single-digit millisecond latency at any scale. In this post, we discuss a technique that can be used with DynamoDB to ensure virtually […]

Christopher Crosbie is a Healthcare and Life Science Solutions Architect with Amazon Web Services When your doctor takes out a prescription pad at your yearly checkup, do you ever stop to wonder what goes into her thought process as she decides on which drug to scribble down? We assume that journals of scientific evidence coupled […]