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Detect and handle data skew on AWS Glue

AWS Glue is a fully managed, serverless data integration service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that uses Apache Spark as one of its backend processing engines (as of this writing, you can use Python Shell, Spark, or Ray). Data skew occurs when the data being processed is not evenly distributed across the Spark cluster, […]

How the GoDaddy data platform achieved over 60% cost reduction and 50% performance boost by adopting Amazon EMR Serverless

This is a guest post co-written with Brandon Abear, Dinesh Sharma, John Bush, and Ozcan IIikhan from GoDaddy. GoDaddy empowers everyday entrepreneurs by providing all the help and tools to succeed online. With more than 20 million customers worldwide, GoDaddy is the place people come to name their ideas, build a professional website, attract customers, […]

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 […]

From centralized architecture to decentralized architecture: How data sharing fine-tunes Amazon Redshift workloads

From centralized architecture to decentralized architecture: How data sharing fine-tunes Amazon Redshift workloads

Amazon Redshift is a fast, petabyte-scale cloud data warehouse delivering the best price-performance. It makes it fast, simple, and cost-effective to analyze all your data using standard SQL and your existing business intelligence (BI) tools. Today, tens of thousands of customers run business-critical workloads on Amazon Redshift. With the significant growth of data for big […]

Running a high-performance SAS Grid Manager cluster on AWS with Amazon FSx for Lustre

SAS® is a software provider of data science and analytics used by enterprises and government organizations. SAS Grid is a highly available, fast processing analytics platform that offers centralized management that balances workloads across different compute nodes. This application suite is capable of data management, visual analytics, governance and security, forecasting and text mining, statistical […]