Category: Compute

Businesses are increasingly harnessing data to improve their business outcomes. To enable this transformation to a data-driven business, customers are bringing together data from structured and unstructured sources into a data lake. Then they use business intelligence (BI) tools, such as Amazon QuickSight, to unlock insights from this data. To provide fast access to datasets, […]

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. 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. Businesses across the world […]

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 today’s world, data plays a vital role in helping businesses understand and improve their processes and services to reduce cost. You can use several tools to […]

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is an important aspect of today’s technology world, and processing data in compliance with GDPR is a necessity for those who implement solutions within the AWS public cloud. One article of GDPR is the “right to erasure” or “right to be forgotten” which may require you to implement a solution […]

This post provides guidance on how to configure Amazon Athena federation with AWS Lambda and Amazon Redshift, while addressing performance considerations to ensure proper use.

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. February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. When we look at […]

We parse through millions of scooter and user events generated daily (over 300 events per second) to extract actionable insight. We selected AWS Glue to perform this task. Our primary ETL job reads the newly added raw event data from Amazon S3, processes it using Apache Spark, and writes the results to our Amazon Redshift data warehouse. AWS Glue plays a critical role in our ability to scale on demand. After careful evaluation and testing, we concluded that AWS Glue ETL jobs meet all our needs and free us from procuring and managing infrastructure.

SAS® is a software provider of data science and analytics used by enterprises and government organizations. SAS Grid is a highly available, fast processing analytics platform that offers centralized management that balances workloads across different compute nodes. This application suite is capable of data management, visual analytics, governance and security, forecasting and text mining, statistical […]

Amazon QuickSight is a fast, cloud-powered, business intelligence (BI) service that makes it easy to deliver insights to everyone in your organization. This post demonstrates how to build a serverless data ingestion pipeline to automatically import frequently changed data into a SPICE (Super-fast, Parallel, In-memory Calculation Engine) dataset of Amazon QuickSight dashboards. It is sometimes […]

Siemens is a global technology leader with more than 370,000 employees and 170 years of experience. To protect Siemens from cybercrime, the Siemens Cyber Defense Center (CDC) continuously monitors Siemens’ networks and assets. To handle the resulting enormous data load, the CDC built a next-generation threat detection and analysis platform called ARGOS. ARGOS is a […]