Category: Amazon QuickSight

ANZ Institutional Division has transformed its data management approach by implementing a federated data platform based on data mesh principles. This shift aims to unlock untapped data potential, improve operational efficiency, and increase agility. The new strategy empowers domain teams to create and manage their own data products, treating data as a valuable asset rather than a byproduct. This post explores how the shift to a data product mindset is being implemented, the challenges faced, and the early wins that are shaping the future of data management in the Institutional Division.

In this post, we guide you through deploying a comprehensive solution in your Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment to analyze Amazon EMR on EC2 cluster usage. By using this solution, you will gain a deep understanding of resource consumption and associated costs of individual applications running on your EMR cluster.

In this post, we cover how to enable trusted identity propagation with AWS IAM Identity Center, Amazon Redshift, and AWS Lake Formation residing on separate AWS accounts and set up cross-account sharing of an S3 data lake for enterprise identities using AWS Lake Formation to enable analytics using Amazon Redshift. Then we use Amazon QuickSight to build insights using Redshift tables as our data source.

The automobile industry has undergone a remarkable transformation because of the increasing adoption of electric vehicles (EVs). EVs, known for their sustainability and eco-friendliness, are paving the way for a new era in transportation. As environmental concerns and the push for greener technologies have gained momentum, the adoption of EVs has surged, promising to reshape […]

Many organizations use external identity providers (IdPs) such as Okta or Microsoft Azure Active Directory to manage their enterprise user identities. These users interact with and run analytical queries across AWS analytics services. To enable them to use the AWS services, their identities from the external IdP are mapped to AWS Identity and Access Management […]

Welcome back to our exciting exploration of architectural patterns for real-time analytics with Amazon Kinesis Data Streams! In this fast-paced world, Kinesis Data Streams stands out as a versatile and robust solution to tackle a wide range of use cases with real-time data, from dashboarding to powering artificial intelligence (AI) applications. In this series, we […]

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 […]

It always pays to know more about your customers, and AWS Data Exchange makes it straightforward to use publicly available census data to enrich your customer dataset. The United States Census Bureau conducts the US census every 10 years and gathers household survey data. This data is anonymized, aggregated, and made available for public use. […]

Business leaders and data analysts use near-real-time transaction data to understand buyer behavior to help evolve products. The primary challenge businesses face with near-real-time analytics is getting the data prepared for analytics in a timely manner, which can often take days. Companies commonly maintain entire teams to facilitate the flow of data from ingestion to […]

Public health organizations need access to data insights that they can quickly act upon, especially in times of health emergencies, when data needs to be updated multiple times daily. For example, during the COVID-19 pandemic, access to timely data insights was critically important for public health agencies worldwide as they coordinated emergency response efforts. Up-to-date […]