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Tag: AWS Glue
Build a data lake with Apache Flink on Amazon EMR
To build a data-driven business, it is important to democratize enterprise data assets in a data catalog. With a unified data catalog, you can quickly search datasets and figure out data schema, data format, and location. The AWS Glue Data Catalog provides a uniform repository where disparate systems can store and find metadata to keep […]
Build, Test and Deploy ETL solutions using AWS Glue and AWS CDK based CI/CD pipelines
AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it easy to discover, prepare, and combine data for analytics, machine learning (ML), and application development. It’s serverless, so there’s no infrastructure to set up or manage. This post provides a step-by-step guide to build a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline using AWS […]
Upgrade Amazon EMR Hive Metastore from 5.X to 6.X
If you are currently running Amazon EMR 5.X clusters, consider moving to Amazon EMR 6.X as it includes new features that helps you improve performance and optimize on cost. For instance, Apache Hive is two times faster with LLAP on Amazon EMR 6.X, and Spark 3 reduces costs by 40%. Additionally, Amazon EMR 6.x releases […]
Interactively develop your AWS Glue streaming ETL jobs using AWS Glue Studio notebooks
Enterprise customers are modernizing their data warehouses and data lakes to provide real-time insights, because having the right insights at the right time is crucial for good business outcomes. To enable near-real-time decision-making, data pipelines need to process real-time or near-real-time data. This data is sourced from IoT devices, change data capture (CDC) services like […]
Optimize Federated Query Performance using EXPLAIN and EXPLAIN ANALYZE in Amazon Athena
Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run. In 2019, Athena added support for federated queries to run SQL […]
Simplify and optimize Python package management for AWS Glue PySpark jobs with AWS CodeArtifact
Data engineers use various Python packages to meet their data processing requirements while building data pipelines with AWS Glue PySpark Jobs. Languages like Python and Scala are commonly used in data pipeline development. Developers can take advantage of their open-source packages or even customize their own to make it easier and faster to perform use […]
How MEDHOST’s cardiac risk prediction successfully leveraged AWS analytic services
MEDHOST has been providing products and services to healthcare facilities of all types and sizes for over 35 years. Today, more than 1,000 healthcare facilities are partnering with MEDHOST and enhancing their patient care and operational excellence with its integrated clinical and financial EHR solutions. MEDHOST also offers a comprehensive Emergency Department Information System with […]
How Aruba Networks built a cost analysis solution using AWS Glue, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon QuickSight
February 2023 Update: Console access to the AWS Data Pipeline service will be removed on April 30, 2023. On this date, you will no longer be able to access AWS Data Pipeline though the console. You will continue to have access to AWS Data Pipeline through the command line interface and API. Please note that […]
Optimize Python ETL by extending Pandas with AWS Data Wrangler
Developing extract, transform, and load (ETL) data pipelines is one of the most time-consuming steps to keep data lakes, data warehouses, and databases up to date and ready to provide business insights. You can categorize these pipelines into distributed and non-distributed, and the choice of one or the other depends on the amount of data […]
Stream Twitter data into Amazon Redshift using Amazon MSK and AWS Glue streaming ETL
This post demonstrates how customers, system integrator (SI) partners, and developers can use the serverless streaming ETL capabilities of AWS Glue with Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (Amazon MSK) to stream data to a data warehouse such as Amazon Redshift. We also show you how to view Twitter streaming data on Amazon QuickSight via Amazon Redshift.