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Entity resolution and fuzzy matches in AWS Glue using the Zingg open source library

In this post, we explore how to use Zingg’s entity resolution capabilities within an AWS Glue notebook, which you can later run as an extract, transform, and load (ETL) job. By integrating Zingg in your notebooks or ETL jobs, you can effectively address data governance challenges and provide consistent and accurate data across your organization.

Revolutionizing data querying: Amazon Redshift and Visual Studio Code integration

In today’s data-driven landscape, the efficiency and accessibility of querying tools play a crucial role in driving businesses forward. Amazon Redshift recently announced integration with Visual Studio Code (), an action that transforms the way data practitioners engage with Amazon Redshift and reshapes your interactions and practices in data management. This innovation not only unlocks […]

Analyze more demanding as well as larger time series workloads with Amazon OpenSearch Serverless 

In today’s data-driven landscape, managing and analyzing vast amounts of data, especially logs, is crucial for organizations to derive insights and make informed decisions. However, handling this data efficiently presents a significant challenge, prompting organizations to seek scalable solutions without the complexity of infrastructure management. Amazon OpenSearch Serverless lets you run OpenSearch in the AWS […]

Run interactive workloads on Amazon EMR Serverless from Amazon EMR Studio

Starting from release 6.14, Amazon EMR Studio supports interactive analytics on Amazon EMR Serverless. You can now use EMR Serverless applications as the compute, in addition to Amazon EMR on EC2 clusters and Amazon EMR on EKS virtual clusters, to run JupyterLab notebooks from EMR Studio Workspaces. EMR Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) […]

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Automate large-scale data validation using Amazon EMR and Apache Griffin

Many enterprises are migrating their on-premises data stores to the AWS Cloud. During data migration, a key requirement is to validate all the data that has been moved from source to target. This data validation is a critical step, and if not done correctly, may result in the failure of the entire project. However, developing […]

Use Apache Iceberg in your data lake with Amazon S3, AWS Glue, and Snowflake

Customers are using AWS and Snowflake to develop purpose-built data architectures that provide the performance required for modern analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) use cases. Implementing these solutions requires data sharing between purpose-built data stores. This is why Snowflake and AWS are delivering enhanced support for Apache Iceberg to enable and facilitate data interoperability between data services. Apache Iceberg is an open-source table format that provides reliability, simplicity, and high performance for large datasets with transactional integrity between various processing engines.

Deliver decompressed Amazon CloudWatch Logs to Amazon S3 and Splunk using Amazon Data Firehose

You can use Amazon Data Firehose to aggregate and deliver log events from your applications and services captured in Amazon CloudWatch Logs to your Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket and Splunk destinations, for use cases such as data analytics, security analysis, application troubleshooting etc. By default, CloudWatch Logs are delivered as gzip-compressed objects. […]

Nexthink scales to trillions of events per day with Amazon MSK

Real-time data streaming and event processing present scalability and management challenges. AWS offers a broad selection of managed real-time data streaming services to effortlessly run these workloads at any scale. In this post, Nexthink shares how Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) empowered them to achieve massive scale in event processing. Experiencing business […]

Enhance monitoring and debugging for AWS Glue jobs using new job observability metrics, Part 3: Visualization and trend analysis using Amazon QuickSight

In Part 2 of this series, we discussed how to enable AWS Glue job observability metrics and integrate them with Grafana for real-time monitoring. Grafana provides powerful customizable dashboards to view pipeline health. However, to analyze trends over time, aggregate from different dimensions, and share insights across the organization, a purpose-built business intelligence (BI) tool […]