AWS Big Data Blog

ProLink uses Amazon QuickSight to enable states to deliver housing assistance to those in need

This is a joint post by ProLink Solutions and AWS. ProLink Solutions builds software solutions for emergency fund deployment to help state agencies distribute funds to homeowners in need. Over the past 20 years, ProLink Solutions has developed software for the affordable housing industry, designed to make the experience less complicated and easy to report […]

Perform ETL operations using Amazon Redshift RSQL

Amazon Redshift is a fast, scalable, secure, and fully managed cloud data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data using standard SQL and your existing ETL (extract, transform, and load), business intelligence (BI), and reporting tools. Tens of thousands of customers use Amazon Redshift to process exabytes of data per […]

GDAC architecture

How the Georgia Data Analytics Center built a cloud analytics solution from scratch with the AWS Data Lab

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 […]

Improved performance with AWS Graviton2 instances on Amazon OpenSearch Service

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 […]

ETL orchestration using the Amazon Redshift Data API and AWS Step Functions with AWS SDK integration

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 […]

Announcing the new Amazon QuickSight Community

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 […]

Architecture Diagram

Audit AWS service events with Amazon EventBridge and Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose

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 […]

Create a low-latency source-to-data lake pipeline using Amazon MSK Connect, Apache Flink, and Apache Hudi

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, […]

Enhance resiliency with admission control in Amazon OpenSearch Service

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 […]

How Cynamics built a high-scale, near-real-time, streaming AI inference system using AWS

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 […]