AWS Big Data Blog

Migrate Delta tables from Azure Data Lake Storage to Amazon S3 using AWS Glue

Organizations are increasingly using a multi-cloud strategy to run their production workloads. We often see requests from customers who have started their data journey by building data lakes on Microsoft Azure, to extend access to the data to AWS services. Customers want to use a variety of AWS analytics, data, AI, and machine learning (ML) […]

Evaluating sample Amazon Redshift data sharing architecture using Redshift Test Drive and advanced SQL analysis

In this post, we walk you through the process of testing workload isolation architecture using Amazon Redshift Data Sharing and Test Drive utility. We demonstrate how you can use SQL for advanced price performance analysis and compare different workloads on different target Redshift cluster configurations.

Solution Architecture

Publish and enrich real-time financial data feeds using Amazon MSK and Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink

In this post, we demonstrate how you can publish an enriched real-time data feed on AWS using Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (Amazon MSK) and Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink. You can apply this architecture pattern to various use cases within the capital markets industry; we discuss some of those use cases in this post.

A box indicating Amazon Redshift in the center of the image with boxes from right to left for Amazon RDS MySQL and PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora MySQL and PostreSQL, Amazon EMR, Amazon Glue, Amazon S3 bucket, Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka and Amazon Kinesis. Each box has an arrow pointing to Amazon Redshift. Each arrow has the following labels: Amazon RDS & Amazon Aurora: zero-ETL and federated queries; AWS Glue and Amazon EMR: spark connector; Amazon S3 bucket: COPY command; Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka and Amazon Kinesis: redshift streaming. Amazon Data Firehose has an arrow pointing to Amazon S3 bucket indicating the data flow direction.

Amazon Redshift data ingestion options

Amazon Redshift, a warehousing service, offers a variety of options for ingesting data from diverse sources into its high-performance, scalable environment. Whether your data resides in operational databases, data lakes, on-premises systems, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), or other AWS services, Amazon Redshift provides multiple ingestion methods to meet your specific needs. The currently […]

Integrate sparse and dense vectors to enhance knowledge retrieval in RAG using Amazon OpenSearch Service

In this post, instead of using the BM25 algorithm, we introduce sparse vector retrieval. This approach offers improved term expansion while maintaining interpretability. We walk through the steps of integrating sparse and dense vectors for knowledge retrieval using Amazon OpenSearch Service and run some experiments on some public datasets to show its advantages.

Solution Overview

Use the AWS CDK with the Data Solutions Framework to provision and manage Amazon Redshift Serverless

In this post, we demonstrate how to use the AWS CDK and DSF to create a multi-data warehouse platform based on Amazon Redshift Serverless. DSF simplifies the provisioning of Redshift Serverless, initialization and cataloging of data, and data sharing between different data warehouse deployments.

Accelerate data integration with Salesforce and AWS using AWS Glue

To meet the demands of diverse data integration use cases, AWS Glue now supports SaaS connectivity for Salesforce. This enables users to quickly preview and transfer their customer relationship management (CRM) data, fetch the schema dynamically on request, and query the data. This post explores the new Salesforce connector for AWS Glue and demonstrates how to build a modern extract, transform, and load (ETL) pipeline with AWS Glue ETL scripts.

Integrate Tableau and Microsoft Entra ID with Amazon Redshift using AWS IAM Identity Center

This blog post provides a step-by-step guide to integrating IAM Identity Center with Microsoft Entra ID as the IdP and configuring Amazon Redshift as an AWS managed application. Additionally, you’ll learn how to set up the Amazon Redshift driver in Tableau, enabling SSO directly within Tableau Desktop.

Introducing job queuing to scale your AWS Glue workloads

Today, we are pleased to announce the general availability of AWS Glue job queuing. Job queuing increases scalability and improves the customer experience of managing AWS Glue jobs. With this new capability, you no longer need to manage concurrency of your AWS Glue job runs and attempt retries just to avoid job failures due to high concurrency. This post demonstrates how job queuing helps you scale your Glue workloads and how job queuing works.