Amazon Mobile Analytics Auto Export to Amazon S3 – Feature Update

Update: April 30, 2018: We’ve discontinued Amazon Mobile Analytics. Amazon Pinpoint now provides the analytics features that Amazon Mobile Analytics previously offered. If you’re new to Mobile Analytics, you can integrate the mobile analytics features of Amazon Pinpoint into your app. If you currently use Amazon Mobile Analytics, you can migrate to Amazon Pinpoint.

Amazon Mobile Analytics Auto Export to Amazon S3 accumulates and exports events sent to the Amazon Mobile Analytics service from your mobile and web applications into your own Amazon S3 bucket, within one hour from when we receive the event. This allows you to access the full data being recorded by your application to perform additional detailed analysis in addition to the analytics automatically produced in the Amazon Mobile Analytics console, such as Daily Active Users (DAU), Monthly Active Users (MAU), Average Revenue per Daily Active User and other out-of-the-box and custom metrics.

What’s New?

We’re making feature improvements to how data is processed after we receive it. Before these changes, files were written three times to ensure all data are published to your Amazon S3 bucket. Going forward, files will generally be written only a single time which will reduce the inbound bandwidth to your Amazon S3 bucket. This will also reduce the average amount of time it takes for Auto Export to Amazon S3 to deliver files into your Amazon S3 bucket. If you are an existing customer of this feature, make sure to read our forum announcement regarding a small change to how the files are named. Please note that the structure of the files is not changing and there are no changes in how the Auto Export to Amazon Redshift feature works.

How do I start using it?

If you’re already using Amazon Mobile Analytics but have not enabled Auto Export to Amazon S3, log in to AWS and navigate to the Amazon Mobile Analytics console to enable the feature for one or more of your applications.  You can also choose to have your data exported to Amazon Redshift while you’re there. You can find the steps to enable Auto Export here.

If you haven’t integrated Amazon Mobile Analytics into any of your applications yet, check out our User Guide and get your first Android, iOS, JavaScript, Unity, Xamarin, or custom application integrated today!

FAQs

1. Which development platforms do you support?

We have SDKs to integrate with the following platforms: iOS, Android, JavaScript, Unity, and Xamarin. We also support REST API access.

2. How do I export data collected from before I enabled Auto Export?

At this time, the Amazon Mobile Analytics Auto Export to Amazon S3 feature only supports data export on a forward basis.  Data collected prior to enabling this feature is not available for export to Amazon S3 or Amazon Redshift, however, it is used to calculate the analytic metrics that are accessible via the Amazon Mobile Analytics console.

3. How are the Amazon S3 file names generated by Auto Export to Amazon S3 changing?

The current file name pattern is as follows:

<bucket-name>/awsma/events/<appId>/<YYYY>/<MM>/<DD>/<hh>/<appId>-<mm>-part-<partNum>.gz

After the change, the file name pattern will be:

<bucket-name>/awsma/events/<appId>/<YYYY>/<MM>/<DD>/<hh>/<appId>-<mm>-part-<partNum>-<hexCode>.gz