AWS Big Data Blog

October 2024: This post was reviewed and updated to update SQL Client setup instructions. AWS IAM Identity Center allows you to manage single sign-on (SSO) access to all your AWS accounts and applications from a single location. We are pleased to announce that Amazon Redshift now integrates with AWS IAM Identity Center, and supports trusted identity propagation, allowing you […]

In this post, we explore how to use the AWS Glue native connector for Teradata Vantage to streamline data integrations and unlock the full potential of your data. Businesses often rely on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for storing large amounts of data from various data sources in a cost-effective and secure manner. For […]

This is a guest post co-written with Arun Sudhir from Eightfold AI. Eightfold is transforming the world of work by providing solutions that empower organizations to recruit and retain a diverse global workforce. Eightfold is a leader in AI products for enterprises to build on their talent’s existing skills. From Talent Acquisition to Talent Management […]

dbt is an open source, SQL-first templating engine that allows you to write repeatable and extensible data transforms in Python and SQL. dbt focuses on the transform layer of extract, load, transform (ELT) or extract, transform, load (ETL) processes across data warehouses and databases through specific engine adapters to achieve extract and load functionality. It […]

In 2013, Amazon Web Services revolutionized the data warehousing industry by launching Amazon Redshift, the first fully-managed, petabyte-scale, enterprise-grade cloud data warehouse. Amazon Redshift made it simple and cost-effective to efficiently analyze large volumes of data using existing business intelligence tools. This cloud service was a significant leap from the traditional data warehousing solutions, which […]

Today on the AWS re:Invent keynote stage, Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of Data and AI, AWS, spoke about the beneficial relationship among data, generative AI, and humans—all working together to unleash new possibilities in efficiency and creativity. There has never been a more exciting time in modern technology. Innovation is accelerating everywhere, and the future is […]

As customers become more data driven and use data as a source of competitive advantage, they want to easily run analytics on their data to better understand their core business drivers to grow sales, reduce costs, and optimize their businesses. To run analytics on their operational data, customers often build solutions that are a combination […]

Amazon Redshift, a widely used cloud data warehouse, has evolved significantly to meet the performance requirements of the most demanding workloads. This post covers one such new feature—the multidimensional data layout sort key. Amazon Redshift now improves your query performance by supporting multidimensional data layout sort keys, which is a new type of sort key […]

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) is a fully managed service that enables you to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka to process streaming data. Today, we’re excited to bring the benefits of Graviton3 to Kafka workloads, with Amazon MSK now offering M7g instances for new MSK provisioned clusters. AWS Graviton […]

Amazon EMR is pleased to announce integration with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Access Grants that simplifies Amazon S3 permission management and allows you to enforce granular access at scale. With this integration, you can scale job-based Amazon S3 access for Apache Spark jobs across all Amazon EMR deployment options and enforce granular Amazon […]