AWS Big Data Blog

Category: Kinesis Data Streams

How a blockchain startup built a prototype solution to solve the need of analytics for decentralized applications with AWS Data Lab

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. This post is co-written with Dr. Quan Hoang Nguyen, CTO at Fantom Foundation. Here at Fantom Foundation (Fantom), we have developed a high performance, highly scalable, and secure smart contract platform. It’s […]

How NerdWallet uses AWS and Apache Hudi to build a serverless, real-time analytics platform

This is a guest post by Kevin Chun, Staff Software Engineer in Core Engineering at NerdWallet. NerdWallet’s mission is to provide clarity for all of life’s financial decisions. This covers a diverse set of topics: from choosing the right credit card, to managing your spending, to finding the best personal loan, to refinancing your mortgage. […]

Best practices to optimize cost and performance for AWS Glue streaming ETL jobs

AWS Glue streaming extract, transform, and load (ETL) jobs allow you to process and enrich vast amounts of incoming data from systems such as Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK), or any other Apache Kafka cluster. It uses the Spark Structured Streaming framework to perform data processing in near-real […]

Stream change data to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams with AWS DMS

August 30, 2023: Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics has been renamed to Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink. Read the announcement in the AWS News Blog and learn more. In this post, we discuss how to use AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) native change data capture (CDC) capabilities to stream changes into Amazon Kinesis Data […]

A serverless operational data lake for retail with AWS Glue, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon QuickSight

Do you want to reduce stockouts at stores? Do you want to improve order delivery timelines? Do you want to provide your customers with accurate product availability, down to the millisecond? A retail operational data lake can help you transform the customer experience by providing deeper insights into a variety of operational aspects of your […]

Introducing Protocol buffers (protobuf) schema support in AWS Glue Schema Registry

AWS Glue Schema Registry now supports Protocol buffers (protobuf) schemas in addition to JSON and Avro schemas. This allows application teams to use protobuf schemas to govern the evolution of streaming data and centrally control data quality from data streams to data lake. AWS Glue Schema Registry provides an open-source library that includes Apache-licensed serializers […]

Make data available for analysis in seconds with Upsolver low-code data pipelines, Amazon Redshift Streaming Ingestion, and Amazon Redshift Serverless

Amazon Redshift is the most widely used cloud data warehouse. Amazon Redshift makes it easy and cost-effective to perform analytics on vast amounts of data. Amazon Redshift launched Streaming Ingestion for Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, which enables you to load data into Amazon Redshift with low latency and without having to stage the data in […]

How Cynamics built a high-scale, near-real-time, streaming AI inference system using AWS

This post is co-authored by Dr. Yehezkel Aviv, Co-Founder and CTO of Cynamics and Sapir Kraus, Head of Engineering at Cynamics. Cynamics provides a new paradigm of cybersecurity — predicting attacks long before they hit by collecting small network samples (less than 1%), inferring from them how the full network (100%) behaves, and predicting threats […]

Stream Apache HBase edits for real-time analytics

August 30, 2023: Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics has been renamed to Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink. Read the announcement in the AWS News Blog and learn more. Apache HBase is a non-relational database. To use the data, applications need to query the database to pull the data and changes from tables. In this post, […]

Integrate Etleap with Amazon Redshift Streaming Ingestion (preview) to make data available in seconds

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed cloud data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data using SQL and your 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 day and power analytics workloads. Etleap […]