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Category: Analytics

Migrate from Azure Cosmos DB to Amazon DynamoDB using AWS Glue

To take advantage of the performance, security, and scale of Amazon DynamoDB, customers want to migrate their data from their existing NoSQL databases in a way that is cost-optimized and performant. In this post, we show you how to migrate data from Azure Cosmos DB to Amazon DynamoDB through an offline migration approach using AWS […]

Archive data from Amazon DynamoDB to Amazon S3 using TTL and Amazon Kinesis integration

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. In this post, we share how you can use Amazon Kinesis integration and the Amazon DynamoDB Time to Live (TTL) feature to design data archiving. Archiving old […]

Combine Amazon Neptune and Amazon OpenSearch Service for geospatial queries

Many AWS customers are looking to solve their business problems by storing and integrating data across a combination of purpose-built databases. The reason for that is purpose-built databases provide innovative ways to build data access patterns that would be challenging or inefficient to solve otherwise. For example, we can model highly connected geospatial data as […]

Store and stream sports data feeds using Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon Kinesis Data Streams

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. Online bookmakers are innovating to offer their clients continuously updated sports data feeds that allow betting throughout the duration of matches. In this post, we walk through […]

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Build interactive graph data analytics and visualizations using Amazon Neptune, Amazon Athena Federated Query, and Amazon QuickSight

Customers have asked for a way to interact with graph datasets in Amazon Neptune using business intelligence (BI) tools such as Amazon QuickSight. Although some BI tools offer generic HTTP connectors that allow you to define a set of REST API calls to extract data from REST endpoints, you have to predefine either Gremlin or […]

Build a fault-tolerant, serverless data aggregation pipeline with exactly-once processing

The business problem of real-time data aggregation is faced by customers in various industries like manufacturing, retail, gaming, utilities, and financial services. In a previous post, we discussed an example from the banking industry: real-time trade risk aggregation. Typically, financial institutions associate every trade that is performed on the trading floor with a risk value […]

Build a near real-time data aggregation pipeline using a serverless, event-driven architecture

The collection, aggregation, and reporting of large volumes of data in near real time is a challenge faced by customers from many different industries, like manufacturing, retail, gaming, utilities, and financial services. In this post, we present a serverless aggregation pipeline in AWS. We start by defining the business problem, introduce a serverless architecture for […]

Filter Amazon Aurora database activity stream data for segregation and monitoring

Most organizations need to monitor activity on databases containing sensitive information to ensure security auditing and compliance. Although some security operations teams might be interested in monitoring all activities like read, write, and logons, others might want to restrict monitoring to activities that lead to changes in data and data structures only. In this post, […]

Building a data discovery solution with Amundsen and Amazon Neptune

This blog post was last reviewed or updated May, 2022. September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. In this post, we discuss the need for a metadata and data lineage tool and the problems it solves, how to rapidly deploy it in the language you prefer using […]

Analyze database performance with Amazon CloudWatch metric streams

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. With the announcement of Amazon CloudWatch Metric Streams, you can now stream near-real-time metrics data to a destination such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Metric Streams supports two primary use […]