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Category: Learning Levels

Build a serverless data quality pipeline using Deequ on AWS Lambda

Poor data quality can lead to a variety of problems, including pipeline failures, incorrect reporting, and poor business decisions. For example, if data ingested from one of the systems contains a high number of duplicates, it can result in skewed data in the reporting system. To prevent such issues, data quality checks are integrated into […]

Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink State Transition

Improve the resilience of Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink application with system-rollback feature

This post explores how to use the system-rollback feature in Managed Service for Apache Flink.We discuss how this functionality improves your application’s resilience by providing a highly available Flink application. Through an example, you will also learn how to use the APIs to have more visibility of the application’s operations.

Use AWS Glue to streamline SFTP data processing

In this blog post, we explore how to use the SFTP Connector for AWS Glue from the AWS Marketplace to efficiently process data from Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) servers into Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), further empowering your data analytics and insights.

Automate Amazon Redshift Advisor recommendations with email alerts using an API

Amazon Redshift Advisor offers recommendations about optimizing your Redshift cluster performance and helps you save on operating costs. In this post, we show you how to use the ListRecommendations API to set up email notifications for Advisor recommendations on your Redshift cluster. These recommendations, such as identifying tables that should be vacuumed to sort the data or finding table columns that are candidates for compression, can help improve performance and save costs.

Migrate Amazon Redshift from DC2 to RA3 to accommodate increasing data volumes and analytics demands

As businesses strive to make informed decisions, the amount of data being generated and required for analysis is growing exponentially. This trend is no exception for Dafiti, an ecommerce company that recognizes the importance of using data to drive strategic decision-making processes. With the ever-increasing volume of data available, Dafiti faces the challenge of effectively managing and extracting valuable insights from this vast pool of information to gain a competitive edge and make data-driven decisions that align with company business objectives. The growing need for storage space to maintain data from over 90 sources and the functionality available on the new Amazon Redshift node types, including managed storage, data sharing, and zero-ETL integrations, led us to migrate from DC2 to RA3 nodes. In this post, we share how we handled the migration process and provide further impressions of our experience.

High level architecture of the Estimations system using Athena

How AppsFlyer modernized their interactive workload by moving to Amazon Athena and saved 80% of costs

AppsFlyer develops a leading measurement solution focused on privacy, which enables marketers to gauge the effectiveness of their marketing activities and integrates them with the broader marketing world, managing a vast volume of 100 billion events every day. This post explores how AppsFlyer modernized their Audiences Segmentation product by using Amazon Athena.

Introducing AWS Glue Data Quality anomaly detection

We are excited to announce the general availability of anomaly detection capabilities in AWS Glue Data Quality. In this post, we demonstrate how this feature works with an example. We provide an AWS Cloud Formation template to deploy this setup and experiment with this feature.

OpenSearch optimized instance (OR1) is game changing for indexing performance and cost

Amazon OpenSearch Service securely unlocks real-time search, monitoring, and analysis of business and operational data for use cases like application monitoring, log analytics, observability, and website search. In this post, we examine the OR1 instance type, an OpenSearch optimized instance introduced on November 29, 2023. OR1 is an instance type for Amazon OpenSearch Service that […]

AWS Glue mutual TLS authentication for Amazon MSK

In today’s landscape, data streams continuously from countless sources such as social media interactions to Internet of Things (IoT) device readings. This torrent of real-time information presents both a challenge and an opportunity for businesses. To harness the power of this data effectively, organizations need robust systems for ingesting, processing, and analyzing streaming data at […]

How Amazon GTTS runs large-scale ETL jobs on AWS using Amazon MWAA

The Amazon Global Transportation Technology Services (GTTS) team owns a set of products called INSITE (Insights Into Transportation Everywhere). These products are user-facing applications that solve specific business problems across different transportation domains: network topology management, capacity management, and network monitoring. As of this writing, GTTS serves around 10,000 customers globally on a monthly basis, […]