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Copy and mask PII between Amazon RDS databases using visual ETL jobs in AWS Glue Studio

In this post, I’ll walk you through how to copy data from one Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL database to another, while scrubbing PII along the way using AWS Glue. You will learn how to prepare a multi-account environment to access the databases from AWS Glue, and how to model an ETL data flow that automatically masks PII as part of the transfer process, so that no sensitive information will be copied to the target database in its original form.

Use AWS Glue to streamline SFTP data processing

In this blog post, we explore how to use the SFTP Connector for AWS Glue from the AWS Marketplace to efficiently process data from Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) servers into Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), further empowering your data analytics and insights.

Automate Amazon Redshift Advisor recommendations with email alerts using an API

Amazon Redshift Advisor offers recommendations about optimizing your Redshift cluster performance and helps you save on operating costs. In this post, we show you how to use the ListRecommendations API to set up email notifications for Advisor recommendations on your Redshift cluster. These recommendations, such as identifying tables that should be vacuumed to sort the data or finding table columns that are candidates for compression, can help improve performance and save costs.

Migrate Amazon Redshift from DC2 to RA3 to accommodate increasing data volumes and analytics demands

As businesses strive to make informed decisions, the amount of data being generated and required for analysis is growing exponentially. This trend is no exception for Dafiti, an ecommerce company that recognizes the importance of using data to drive strategic decision-making processes. With the ever-increasing volume of data available, Dafiti faces the challenge of effectively managing and extracting valuable insights from this vast pool of information to gain a competitive edge and make data-driven decisions that align with company business objectives. The growing need for storage space to maintain data from over 90 sources and the functionality available on the new Amazon Redshift node types, including managed storage, data sharing, and zero-ETL integrations, led us to migrate from DC2 to RA3 nodes. In this post, we share how we handled the migration process and provide further impressions of our experience.

OpenSearch optimized instance (OR1) is game changing for indexing performance and cost

Amazon OpenSearch Service securely unlocks real-time search, monitoring, and analysis of business and operational data for use cases like application monitoring, log analytics, observability, and website search. In this post, we examine the OR1 instance type, an OpenSearch optimized instance introduced on November 29, 2023. OR1 is an instance type for Amazon OpenSearch Service that […]

AWS Glue mutual TLS authentication for Amazon MSK

In today’s landscape, data streams continuously from countless sources such as social media interactions to Internet of Things (IoT) device readings. This torrent of real-time information presents both a challenge and an opportunity for businesses. To harness the power of this data effectively, organizations need robust systems for ingesting, processing, and analyzing streaming data at […]

How Amazon GTTS runs large-scale ETL jobs on AWS using Amazon MWAA

The Amazon Global Transportation Technology Services (GTTS) team owns a set of products called INSITE (Insights Into Transportation Everywhere). These products are user-facing applications that solve specific business problems across different transportation domains: network topology management, capacity management, and network monitoring. As of this writing, GTTS serves around 10,000 customers globally on a monthly basis, […]

Get started with the new Amazon DataZone enhancements for Amazon Redshift

In today’s data-driven landscape, organizations are seeking ways to streamline their data management processes and unlock the full potential of their data assets, while controlling access and enforcing governance. That’s why we introduced Amazon DataZone. Amazon DataZone is a powerful data management service that empowers data engineers, data scientists, product managers, analysts, and business users […]

Manage Amazon Redshift provisioned clusters with Terraform

Amazon Redshift is a fast, scalable, secure, and fully managed cloud data warehouse that makes it straightforward and cost-effective to analyze all your data using standard SQL and your existing 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 […]

Configure SAML federation with Amazon OpenSearch Serverless and Keycloak

Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is a serverless version of Amazon OpenSearch Service, a fully managed open search and analytics platform. On Amazon OpenSearch Service you can run petabyte-scale search and analytics workloads without the heavy lifting of managing the underlying OpenSearch Service clusters and Amazon OpenSearch Serverless supports workloads up to 30TB of data for time-series […]