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Persist Streaming Data to Amazon S3 using Amazon Data Firehose and AWS Lambda

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. Streaming data analytics is becoming main-stream (pun intended) in large enterprises as the technology stacks have become more user-friendly to implement. For example, Spark-Streaming connected to an Amazon Kinesis stream is a […]

Building and Maintaining an Amazon S3 Metadata Index without Servers

Mike Deck is a Solutions Architect with AWS Amazon S3 is a simple key-based object store whose scalability and low cost make it ideal for storing large datasets. Its design enables S3 to provide excellent performance for storing and retrieving objects based on a known key. Finding objects based on other attributes, however, requires doing […]

Building Scalable and Responsive Big Data Interfaces with AWS Lambda

This is a guest post by Martin Holste, a co-founder of the Threat Analytics Platform at FireEye where he is a senior researcher specializing in prototypes. Overview At FireEye, Inc., we process billions of security events every day with our Threat Analytics Platform, running on AWS. In building our platform, one of the problems we […]

How Expedia Implemented Near Real-time Analysis of Interdependent Datasets

This is a guest post by Stephen Verstraete, a manager at Pariveda Solutions. Pariveda Solutions is an AWS Premier Consulting Partner. Common patterns exist for batch processing and real-time processing of Big Data. However, we haven’t seen patterns that allow us to process batches of dependent data in real-time. Expedia’s marketing group needed to analyze […]

A Zero-Administration Amazon Redshift Database Loader

Ian Meyers is a Solutions Architecture Senior Manager with AWS With this new AWS Lambda function, it’s never been easier to get file data into Amazon Redshift. You simply push files into a variety of locations on Amazon S3 and have them automatically loaded into your Amazon Redshift clusters. Using AWS Lambda with Amazon Redshift […]