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What’s new with Amazon MWAA support for Apache Airflow version 2.4.3
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 at scale. Amazon MWAA supports multiple versions of Apache Airflow (v1.10.12, v2.0.2, and v2.2.2). Earlier in 2023, we added support for Apache Airflow v2.4.3 […]
Real-time anomaly detection via Random Cut Forest in Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink
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. Real-time anomaly detection describes a use case to detect and flag unexpected behavior in streaming data as it occurs. Online machine learning (ML) algorithms are popular for […]
Monitor and optimize cost on AWS Glue for Apache Spark
AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it simple to discover, prepare, and combine data for analytics, machine learning (ML), and application development. You can use AWS Glue to create, run, and monitor data integration and ETL (extract, transform, and load) pipelines and catalog your assets across multiple data stores. One of […]
How Dafiti made Amazon QuickSight its primary data visualization tool
This is a guest post by Valdiney Gomes, Hélio Leal, and Flávia Lima from Dafiti. Data and its various uses is increasingly evident in companies, and each professional has their preferences about which technologies to use to visualize data, which isn’t necessarily in line with the technological needs and infrastructure of a company. At Dafiti, […]
Cross-account integration between SaaS platforms using Amazon AppFlow
Implementing an effective data sharing strategy that satisfies compliance and regulatory requirements is complex. Customers often need to share data between disparate software as a service (SaaS) platforms within their organization or across organizations. On many occasions, they need to apply business logic to the data received from the source SaaS platform before pushing it […]
Exploring new ETL and ELT capabilities for Amazon Redshift from the AWS Glue Studio visual editor
In a modern data architecture, unified analytics enable you to access the data you need, whether it’s stored in a data lake or a data warehouse. In particular, we have observed an increasing number of customers who combine and integrate their data into an Amazon Redshift data warehouse to analyze huge data at scale and […]
Configure SAML federation for Amazon OpenSearch Serverless with AWS IAM Identity Center
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is a serverless option of Amazon OpenSearch Service that makes it easy for you to run large-scale search and analytics workloads without having to configure, manage, or scale OpenSearch clusters. It automatically provisions and scales the underlying resources to deliver fast data ingestion and query responses for even the most demanding and […]
Push Amazon EMR step logs from Amazon EC2 instances to Amazon CloudWatch logs
Amazon EMR is a big data service offered by AWS to run Apache Spark and other open-source applications on AWS to build scalable data pipelines in a cost-effective manner. Monitoring the logs generated from the jobs deployed on EMR clusters is essential to help detect critical issues in real time and identify root causes quickly. […]
Perform accent-insensitive search using OpenSearch
We often need our text search to be agnostic of accent marks. Accent-insensitive search, also called diacritics-agnostic search, is where search results are the same for queries that may or may not contain Latin characters such as à, è, Ê, ñ, and ç. Diacritics are English letters with an accent to mark a difference in […]
Visualize Confluent data in Amazon QuickSight using Amazon Athena
This is a guest post written by Ahmed Saef Zamzam and Geetha Anne from Confluent. Businesses are using real-time data streams to gain insights into their company’s performance and make informed, data-driven decisions faster. As real-time data has become essential for businesses, a growing number of companies are adapting their data strategy to focus on […]