AWS Big Data Blog
Derive operational insights from application logs using Automated Data Analytics on AWS
Automated Data Analytics (ADA) on AWS is an AWS solution that enables you to derive meaningful insights from data in a matter of minutes through a simple and intuitive user interface. ADA offers an AWS-native data analytics platform that is ready to use out of the box by data analysts for a variety of use […]
Use Amazon Athena to query data stored in GCP GCS
As customers accelerate their migrations to the cloud and transform their businesses, some find themselves in situations where they have to manage data analytics in a multi-cloud environment, such as acquiring a company that runs on a different cloud provider. Customers who use multi-cloud environments often face challenges in data access and compatibility that can […]
The art and science of data product portfolio management
This post is the first in a series dedicated to the art and science of practical data mesh implementation (for an overview of data mesh, read the original whitepaper The data mesh shift). The series attempts to bridge the gap between the tenets of data mesh and its real-life implementation by deep-diving into the functional […]
How Ontraport reduced data processing cost by 80% with AWS Glue
This post is written in collaboration with Elijah Ball from Ontraport. Customers are implementing data and analytics workloads in the AWS Cloud to optimize cost. When implementing data processing workloads in AWS, you have the option to use technologies like Amazon EMR or serverless technologies like AWS Glue. Both options minimize the undifferentiated heavy lifting […]
Introducing Apache Airflow version 2.6.3 support on Amazon MWAA
Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) is a managed orchestration service for Apache Airflow that makes it simple to set up and operate end-to-end data pipelines in the cloud. Trusted across various industries, Amazon MWAA helps organizations like Siemens, ENGIE, and Choice Hotels International enhance and scale their business workflows, while significantly improving security […]
Perform Amazon Kinesis load testing with Locust
February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. Building a streaming data solution requires thorough testing at the scale it will operate in a production environment. Streaming applications operating at scale often handle large volumes of up to GBs per […]
Monitor data pipelines in a serverless data lake
AWS serverless services, including but not limited to AWS Lambda, AWS Glue, AWS Fargate, Amazon EventBridge, Amazon Athena, Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), have become the building blocks for any serverless data lake, providing key mechanisms to ingest and transform data […]
Configure SAML federation for Amazon OpenSearch Serverless with Okta
Modern applications apply security controls across many systems and their subsystems. Keeping all of these systems in sync would be a major undertaking if you tried to implement it separately. Centralized identity management is the way to maintain a single identity provider (IdP) that can authenticate actors and manage and distribute their rights. OpenSearch is […]
Perform time series forecasting using Amazon Redshift ML and Amazon Forecast
Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud. Tens of thousands of customers use Amazon Redshift to process exabytes of data every day to power their analytics workloads. Many businesses use different software tools to analyze historical data and past patterns to forecast future demand and trends to make more […]
Configure cross-Region table access with the AWS Glue Catalog and AWS Lake Formation
Today’s modern data lakes span multiple accounts, AWS Regions, and lines of business in organizations. Companies also have employees and do business across multiple geographic regions and even around the world. It’s important that their data solution gives them the ability to share and access data securely and safely across Regions. The AWS Glue Data […]