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Recorded webinars

Real-time log analytics using Amazon Data Firehose (Jun 2017)

Log analytics is a common big data use case that allows you to analyze log data from websites, mobile devices, servers, sensors, and more for a wide variety of applications such as digital marketing, application monitoring, fraud detection, ad tech, gaming, and IoT. Moving your log analytics to real time can speed up your time to information allowing you to get insights in seconds or minutes instead of hours or days. In this session, you will learn how to ingest and deliver logs with no infrastructure using Amazon Data Firehose. We will show how Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink can be used to process log data in real time to build responsive analytics. Finally, we will show how to use Amazon Elasticsearch Service to interactively query and visualize your log data.

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand how to easily build an end to end, real time log analytics solution.
  • Get an overview of collecting and processing data in real-time using Amazon Kinesis.
  • Learn how to Interactively query and visualize your log data using Amazon Elasticsearch Service.

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Streaming ETL for data lakes using Amazon Data Firehose (May 2017)

Data lakes enable your employees across the organization to access and analyze massive amounts of unstructured and structured data from disparate data sources, many of which generate data continuously and rapidly. Making this data available in a timely fashion for analysis requires a streaming solution that can durably and cost-effectively ingest this data into your data lake. Amazon Data Firehose is a fully managed service that makes it easy to prepare and load streaming data into AWS. In this tech talk, we will provide an overview of Firehose and dive deep into how you can use the service to collect, transform, batch, compress, and load real-time streaming data into your Amazon S3 data lakes.

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand key requirements for collecting, preparing, and loading streaming data into data lakes.
  • Get an overview of transmitting data using Firehose.
  • Learn how to perform data transformations with Firehose.

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How TrueCar gains actionable insights with Splunk Cloud

Moving your entire data center to the cloud is no easy feat! TrueCar’s technology platform team was tasked with just that—and in search of a more scalable monitoring and troubleshooting solution that could increase infrastructure and application performance, enhance its security posture, and drive product improvements. The company landed on Splunk Cloud running on AWS and deployed it in one day! In this webinar, you’ll learn how TrueCar leverages both AWS and Splunk capabilities to gain insights from its data in real time.

Watch the webinar to learn how TrueCar's experience running Splunk Cloud on AWS with Amazon Data Firehose can help you:

  • Gain historical insights with additional data retention
  • Provide better visibility into AWS billing
  • Obtain security insights and threat detection

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Blog posts

Amazon Data Firehose now supports dynamic partitioning to Amazon S3

by Jeremy Ber and Michael Greenshtein, 09/02/2021

CloudWatch Metric Streams – Send AWS Metrics to Partners and to Your Apps in Real Time

by Jeff Barr, 03/31/2021

Stream, transform, and analyze XML data in real time with Amazon Kinesis, AWS Lambda, and Amazon Redshift

by Sakti Mishra, 08/18/2020

Amazon Data Firehose Data Transformation with AWS Lambda

by Bryan Liston, 02/13/2027

Watch Stream CDC into an Amazon S3 data lake in Parquet format with AWS DMS

by Viral Shah, 09/08/2020

Amazon Data Firehose custom prefixes for Amazon S3 objects

by Rajeev Chakrabarti , 04/22/2019

Stream data to an HTTP endpoint with Amazon Data Firehose

by Imtiaz Sayed and Masudur Rahaman Sayem , 06/29/2020

Capturing Data Changes in Amazon Aurora Using AWS Lambda

by Re Alvarez-Parmar , 09/05/2017

How to Stream Data from Amazon DynamoDB to Amazon Aurora using AWS Lambda and Amazon Data Firehose

by Aravind Kodandaramaiah , 05/04/2017

Analyzing VPC Flow Logs using Amazon Athena, and Amazon QuickSight

by Ian Robinson , Chaitanya Shah , and Ben Snively , 03/09/2017