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Unlock scalability, cost-efficiency, and faster insights with large-scale data migration to Amazon Redshift

Large-scale data warehouse migration to the cloud is a complex and challenging endeavor that many organizations undertake to modernize their data infrastructure, enhance data management capabilities, and unlock new business opportunities. As data volumes continue to grow exponentially, traditional data warehousing solutions may struggle to keep up with the increasing demands for scalability, performance, and […]

Deliver Amazon CloudWatch logs to Amazon OpenSearch Serverless

In this blog post, we will show how to use Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion to deliver CloudWatch logs to OpenSearch Serverless in near real-time. We outline a mechanism to connect a Lambda subscription filter with OpenSearch Ingestion and deliver logs to OpenSearch Serverless without explicitly needing a separate subscription filter for it.

Synchronize data lakes with CDC-based UPSERT using open table format, AWS Glue, and Amazon MSK

The post illustrates the construction of a comprehensive CDC system, enabling the processing of CDC data sourced from Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL. Initially, we’re creating a raw data lake of all modified records in the database in near real time using Amazon MSK and writing to Amazon S3 as raw data. Later, we use an AWS Glue exchange, transform, and load (ETL) job for batch processing of CDC data from the S3 raw data lake.

Federating access to Amazon DataZone with AWS IAM Identity Center and Okta

Many customers rely today on Okta or other identity providers (IdPs) to federate access to their technology stack and tools. With federation, security teams can centralize user management in a single place, which helps simplify and brings agility to their day-to-day operations while keeping highest security standards. To help develop a data-driven culture, everyone inside […]

Get started with the new Amazon DataZone enhancements for Amazon Redshift

In today’s data-driven landscape, organizations are seeking ways to streamline their data management processes and unlock the full potential of their data assets, while controlling access and enforcing governance. That’s why we introduced Amazon DataZone. Amazon DataZone is a powerful data management service that empowers data engineers, data scientists, product managers, analysts, and business users […]

Apache Iceberg metadata layer architecture diagram

Monitoring Apache Iceberg metadata layer using AWS Lambda, AWS Glue, and AWS CloudWatch

In the era of big data, data lakes have emerged as a cornerstone for storing vast amounts of raw data in its native format. They support structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, offering a flexible and scalable environment for data ingestion from multiple sources. Data lakes provide a unified repository for organizations to store and use […]

How ATPCO enables governed self-service data access to accelerate innovation with Amazon DataZone

ATPCO is the backbone of modern airline retailing, enabling airlines and third-party channels to deliver the right offers to customers at the right time. ATPCO’s reach is impressive, with its fare data covering over 89% of global flight schedules. In this post, using one of ATPCO’s use cases, we show you how ATPCO uses AWS services, including Amazon DataZone, to make data discoverable by data consumers across different business units so that they can innovate faster. We encourage you to read Amazon DataZone concepts and terminologies first to become familiar with the terms used in this post.

Manage Amazon Redshift provisioned clusters with Terraform

Amazon Redshift is a fast, scalable, secure, and fully managed cloud data warehouse that makes it straightforward and cost-effective to analyze all your data using standard SQL and your existing extract, transform, and load (ETL); business intelligence (BI); and reporting tools. Tens of thousands of customers use Amazon Redshift to process exabytes of data per […]

Migrate workloads from AWS Data Pipeline

After careful consideration, we have made the decision to close new customer access to AWS Data Pipeline, effective July 25, 2024. AWS Data Pipeline existing customers can continue to use the service as normal. AWS continues to invest in security, availability, and performance improvements for AWS Data Pipeline, but we do not plan to introduce […]

Transition from Amazon CloudSearch to Amazon OpenSearch Service

After careful consideration, we have made the decision to close new customer access to Amazon CloudSearch, effective July 25, 2024. Amazon CloudSearch existing customers can continue to use the service as normal. AWS continues to invest in security, availability, and performance improvements for Amazon CloudSearch, but we do not plan to introduce new features. At […]