AWS Big Data Blog

With the new SUPER data type and the PartiQL language, Amazon Redshift expands data warehouse capabilities to natively ingest, store, transform, and analyze semi-structured data. Semi-structured data (such as weblogs and sensor data) fall under the category of data that doesn’t conform to a rigid schema expected in relational databases. It often contain complex values […]

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Amazon OpenSearch Service supports multiple instance types based on your use case. In 2021, AWS announced general purpose (M6g), compute optimized (C6g), and memory optimized (R6g, R6gd) instance types for Amazon OpenSearch Service version 7.9 or later powered by AWS […]

In this post, we briefly walk through the most common design patterns adapted by enterprises to build lake house solutions to support their business agility in a multi-tenant model using the AWS Lake Formation cross-account feature to enable a multi-account strategy for line of business (LOB) accounts to produce and consume data from your data […]

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. 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. For organizations moving towards […]

Customers create business continuity plans and disaster recovery (DR) strategies to maximize resiliency for their applications, because downtime or data loss can result in losing revenue or halting operations. Ultimately, DR planning is all about enabling the business to continue running despite a Regional outage. This post explains how to make Apache Kafka resilient to […]

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. Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics Studio makes it easy to analyze streaming data in real time and build stream processing applications using standard SQL, Python, and Scala. With […]

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Amazon OpenSearch Service supports real-time anomaly detection, which uses machine learning (ML) to proactively detect anomalies in real-time streaming data. When used to analyze application logs, it can detect anomalies such as unusually high error rates or sudden changes in […]

This post was updated May 2022 to update the AWS CloudFormation template. Customers are looking for ways to securely and cost-efficiently manage large volumes of sensitive data archival and deletion in their data lake by following regulations and data protection and privacy laws, such as GDPR, POPIA, and LGPD. This post describes a way to […]

NTT DOCOMO is the largest telecom company in Japan. It provides innovative, convenient, and secure mobile services that enable customers to realize smarter lives. More than 73 million customers in Japan connect through its advanced wireless networks, including a nationwide LTE network and one of the world’s most progressive LTE Advanced networks. In addition to […]

July 2023: This post was reviewed for accuracy. Password-based access control alone is not considered secure enough, and many organizations are adopting multi-factor authentication (MFA) and single sign-on (SSO) as a de facto standard to prevent unauthorized access to systems and data. SSO frees up time and resources for both administrators and end users from […]