AWS Big Data Blog

In today’s data-driven world, organizations are continually confronted with the task of managing extensive volumes of data securely and efficiently. Whether it’s customer information, sales records, or sensor data from Internet of Things (IoT) devices, the importance of handling and storing data at scale with ease of use is paramount. A common use case that […]

In this series, we talk about Swisscom’s journey of automating Amazon Redshift provisioning as part of the Swisscom One Data Platform (ODP) solution using the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK), and we provide code snippets and the other useful references. In Part 1, we did a deep dive on provisioning a secure and compliant […]

In this post, we deep dive into provisioning a secure and compliant Redshift cluster using the AWS CDK and discuss the best practices of secret rotation. We also explain how Swisscom used AWS CDK custom resources in automating the creation of dynamic user groups that are relevant for the AWS Identity and Access management (IAM) roles matching different job functions.

As part of an indexing operation, the ingested documents are stored as immutable segments. Each segment is a collection of various data structures, such as inverted index, block K dimensional tree (BKD), term dictionary, or stored fields, and these data structures are responsible for retrieving the document faster during the search operation. Out of these data structures, stored fields, which are largest fields in the segment, are compressed when stored on the disk and based on the compression strategy used, the compression speed and the index storage size will vary. In this post, we discuss the performance of the Zstandard algorithm, which was introduced in OpenSearch v2.9, amongst other available compression algorithms in OpenSearch.

This post is co-written with Amit Gilad, Alex Dickman and Itay Takersman from Cloudinary.  Enterprises and organizations across the globe want to harness the power of data to make better decisions by putting data at the center of every decision-making process. Data-driven decisions lead to more effective responses to unexpected events, increase innovation and allow […]

In this post, we delve into the key aspects of using Amazon EMR for modern data management, covering topics such as data governance, data mesh deployment, and streamlined data discovery. One of the key challenges in modern big data management is facilitating efficient data sharing and access control across multiple EMR clusters. Organizations have multiple […]

We are excited to announce the general availability of Amazon OpenSearch Service zero-ETL integration with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for domains running 2.13 and above. The integration is new way for customers to query operational logs in Amazon S3 and Amazon S3-based data lakes without needing to switch between tools to analyze operational data. By querying across OpenSearch Service and S3 datasets, you can evaluate multiple data sources to perform forensic analysis of operational and security events. The new integration with OpenSearch Service supports AWS’s zero-ETL vision to reduce the operational complexity of duplicating data or managing multiple analytics tools by enabling you to directly query your operational data, reducing costs and time to action.

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is used by many customers to capture, process, and store data streams at any scale. This level of unparalleled scale is enabled by dividing each data stream into multiple shards. Each shard in a stream has a 1 Mbps or 1,000 records per second write throughput limit. Whether your data streaming […]

This blog post is co-written with Sid Wray and Jake Koskela from Salesforce, and Adiascar Cisneros from Tableau.  Amazon Redshift is a fast, scalable cloud data warehouse built to serve workloads at any scale. With Amazon Redshift as your data warehouse, you can run complex queries using sophisticated query optimization to quickly deliver results to […]

Designing a full stack search application requires addressing numerous challenges to provide a smooth and effective user experience. This encompasses tasks such as integrating diverse data from various sources with distinct formats and structures, optimizing the user experience for performance and security, providing multilingual support, and optimizing for cost, operations, and reliability. Amazon OpenSearch Serverless […]