AWS Big Data Blog

We’re introducing a real-time vector embedding blueprint, which simplifies building real-time AI applications by automatically generating vector embeddings using Amazon Bedrock from streaming data in Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) and indexing them in Amazon OpenSearch Service. In this post, we discuss the importance of real-time data for generative AI applications, typical architectural patterns for building Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) capabilities, and how to use real-time vector embedding blueprints for Amazon MSK to simplify your RAG architecture.

We are excited to launch Kinesis Client Library 3.0, which enables you to reduce your stream processing cost by up to 33% compared to previous KCL versions. KCL 3.0 achieves this with a new load balancing algorithm that continuously monitors the resource utilization of workers and redistributes the load evenly to all workers. In this post, we discuss load balancing challenges in stream processing using a sample workload, demonstrating how uneven load distribution across workers increases processing costs.

In this post, we discuss how you can send real-time data streams into Iceberg tables on Amazon S3 by using Amazon Data Firehose. Amazon Data Firehose simplifies the process of streaming data by allowing users to configure a delivery stream, select a data source, and set Iceberg tables as the destination. Once set up, the Firehose stream is ready to deliver data.

In this post, we discuss how to implement fine-grained access control in EMR Serverless using Lake Formation. With this integration, organizations can achieve better scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency in their data operations, ultimately driving more value from their data assets.

Amazon Redshift has enhanced its Redshift ML feature to support integration of large language models (LLMs). As part of these enhancements, Redshift now enables native integration with Amazon Bedrock. This integration enables you to use LLMs from simple SQL commands alongside your data in Amazon Redshift, helping you to build generative AI applications quickly. This powerful combination enables customers to harness the transformative capabilities of LLMs and seamlessly incorporate them into their analytical workflows.

In this post, we discuss how Volkswagen Autoeuropa used Amazon DataZone to build a data marketplace based on data mesh architecture to accelerate their digital transformation. The data mesh, built on Amazon DataZone, simplified data access, improved data quality, and established governance at scale to power analytics, reporting, AI, and machine learning (ML) use cases. As a result, the data solution offers benefits such as faster access to data, expeditious decision making, accelerated time to value for use cases, and enhanced data governance.

Amazon DataZone recently announced the expansion of data analysis and visualization options for your project-subscribed data within Amazon DataZone using the Amazon Athena JDBC driver. In this post, you learn how the recent enhancements in Amazon DataZone facilitate a seamless connection with Tableau. By integrating Tableau with the comprehensive data governance capabilities of Amazon DataZone, we’re empowering data consumers to quickly and seamlessly explore and analyze their governed data.

Amazon DataZone now launched authentication support through the  Amazon Athena JDBC driver, allowing data users to seamlessly query their subscribed data lake assets via popular business intelligence (BI) and analytics tools like Tableau, Power BI, Excel, SQL Workbench, DBeaver, and more. This integration empowers data users to access and analyze governed data within Amazon DataZone using familiar tools, boosting both productivity and flexibility.

This is the final part of a three-part series where we show how to build a data lake on AWS using a modern data architecture. This post shows how to process data with Amazon Redshift Spectrum and create the gold (consumption) layer.

This is part two of a three-part series where we show how to build a data lake on AWS using a modern data architecture. This post shows how to load data from a legacy database (SQL Server) into a transactional data lake (Apache Iceberg) using AWS Glue. We show how to build data pipelines using AWS Glue jobs, optimize them for both cost and performance, and implement schema evolution to automate manual tasks. To review the first part of the series, where we load SQL Server data into Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) using AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS), see Modernize your legacy databases with AWS data lakes, Part 1: Migrate SQL Server using AWS DMS.