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Tag: Amazon Kinesis
Stream CDC into an Amazon S3 data lake in Parquet format with AWS DMS
Most organizations generate data in real time and ever-increasing volumes. Data is captured from a variety of sources, such as transactional and reporting databases, application logs, customer-facing websites, and external feeds. Companies want to capture, transform, and analyze this time-sensitive data to improve customer experiences, increase efficiency, and drive innovations. With increased data volume and […]
Read MoreStream, transform, and analyze XML data in real time with Amazon Kinesis, AWS Lambda, and Amazon Redshift
When we look at enterprise data warehousing systems, we receive data in various formats, such as XML, JSON, or CSV. Most third-party system integrations happen through SOAP or REST web services, where the input and output data format is either XML or JSON. When applications deal with CSV or JSON, it becomes fairly simple to […]
Read MoreIntegrating the MongoDB Cloud with Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose
With the release of Kinesis Data Firehose HTTP endpoint delivery, you can now stream your data through Amazon Kinesis or directly push data to Kinesis Data Firehose and configure it to deliver data to MongoDB Atlas. You can also configure Kinesis Data Firehose to transform the data before delivering it to its destination. You don’t have to write applications and manage resources to read data and push to MongoDB. It’s all managed by AWS, making it easier to estimate costs for your data based on your data volume. In this post, we discuss how to integrate Kinesis Data Firehose and MongoDB Cloud and demonstrate how to stream data from your source to MongoDB Atlas.
Read MoreAnalyze logs with Datadog using Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose HTTP endpoint delivery
Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose now provides an easy-to-configure and straightforward process for streaming data to a third-party service for analysis, including logs from AWS services. Due to the varying formats and high volume of this data, it’s a complex challenge to identify and correlate key event details and data points to fix issues and improve […]
Read MoreStream data to an HTTP endpoint with Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose
The value of data is time sensitive. Streaming data services can help you move data quickly from data sources to new destinations for downstream processing. For example, Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose can reliably load streaming data into data stores like Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Redshift, Amazon OpenSearch Service, and Splunk. We’re now […]
Read MoreBuild an AWS Well-Architected environment with the Analytics Lens
Building a modern data platform on AWS enables you to collect data of all types, store it in a central, secure repository, and analyze it with purpose-built tools. Yet you may be unsure of how to get started and the impact of certain design decisions. To address the need to provide advice tailored to specific technology and application domains, AWS added the concept of well-architected lenses 2017. AWS now is happy to announce the Analytics Lens for the AWS Well-Architected Framework. This post provides an introduction of its purpose, topics covered, common scenarios, and services included.
Read MoreStreaming ETL with Apache Flink and Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Most businesses generate data continuously in real time and at ever-increasing volumes. Data is generated as users play mobile games, load balancers log requests, customers shop on your website, and temperature changes on IoT sensors. You can capitalize on time-sensitive […]
Read MoreUnder the hood: Scaling your Kinesis data streams
Real-time delivery of data and insights enables businesses to pivot quickly in response to changes in demand, user engagement, and infrastructure events, among many others. Amazon Kinesis offers a managed service that lets you focus on building your applications, rather than managing infrastructure. Scalability is provided out-of-the-box, allowing you to ingest and process gigabytes of […]
Read MoreAmazon Kinesis Data Firehose custom prefixes for Amazon S3 objects
In February 2019, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a new feature in Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose called Custom Prefixes for Amazon S3 Objects. It lets customers specify a custom expression for the Amazon S3 prefix where data records are delivered. Previously, Kinesis Data Firehose allowed only specifying a literal prefix. This prefix was then combined with a static date-formatted prefix to create the […]
Read MoreBuild and run streaming applications with Apache Flink and Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for Java Applications
In this post, we discuss how you can use Apache Flink and Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for Java Applications to address these challenges. We explore how to build a reliable, scalable, and highly available streaming architecture based on managed services that substantially reduce the operational overhead compared to a self-managed environment.
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