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Tag: Amazon S3
Tips for Migrating to Apache HBase on Amazon S3 from HDFS
Starting with Amazon EMR 5.2.0, you have the option to run Apache HBase on Amazon S3. Running HBase on S3 gives you several added benefits, including lower costs, data durability, and easier scalability. HBase provides several options that you can use to migrate and back up HBase tables. The steps to migrate to HBase on […]
Securely Analyze Data from Another AWS Account with EMRFS
Sometimes, data to be analyzed is spread across buckets owned by different accounts. In order to ensure data security, appropriate credentials management needs to be in place. This is especially true for large enterprises storing data in different Amazon S3 buckets for different departments. For example, a customer service department may need access to data […]
Building an Event-Based Analytics Pipeline for Amazon Game Studios’ Breakaway
All software developers strive to build products that are functional, robust, and bug-free, but video game developers have an extra challenge: they must also create a product that entertains. When designing a game, developers must consider how the various elements—such as characters, story, environment, and mechanics—will fit together and, more importantly, how players will interact […]
Analyzing Data in S3 using Amazon Athena
April 2024: This post was reviewed for accuracy. Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data directly from Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to set up or manage and you can start analyzing your data immediately. You don’t even need to […]
Low-Latency Access on Trillions of Records: FINRA’s Architecture Using Apache HBase on Amazon EMR with Amazon S3
John Hitchingham is Director of Performance Engineering at FINRA The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) is a private sector regulator responsible for analyzing 99% of the equities and 65% of the option activity in the US. In order to look for fraud, market manipulation, insider trading, and abuse, FINRA’s technology group has developed a robust […]
Turning Amazon EMR into a Massive Amazon S3 Processing Engine with Campanile
Michael Wallman is a senior consultant with AWS ProServ Have you ever had to copy a huge Amazon S3 bucket to another account or region? Or create a list based on object name or size? How about mapping a function over millions of objects? Amazon EMR to the rescue! EMR allows you to deploy large […]