Category: AWS CloudFormation

This is a guest blog post co-written with Corey Johnson from Huron. Having an accurate and up-to-date inventory of all technical assets helps an organization ensure it can keep track of all its resources with metadata information such as their assigned owners, last updated date, used by whom, how frequently, and more. It helps engineers, […]

Amazon Redshift is the most widely used data warehouse in the cloud, best suited for analyzing exabytes of data and running complex analytical queries. Amazon QuickSight is a fast business analytics service to build visualizations, perform ad hoc analysis, and quickly get business insights from your data. QuickSight provides easy integration with Amazon Redshift, providing […]

Amazon Redshift Serverless makes it simple to run and scale analytics without having to manage the instance type, instance size, lifecycle management, pausing, resuming, and so on. It automatically provisions and intelligently scales data warehouse compute capacity to deliver fast performance for even the most demanding and unpredictable workloads, and you pay only for what […]

A lot of the power behind business intelligence (BI) and data visualization tools such as Amazon QuickSight comes from the ability to work interactively with data through a GUI. Report authors create dashboards using GUI-based tools, then in just a few clicks can share the dashboards with business users and decision-makers. This workflow empowers authors […]

Amazon Redshift is a fast, petabyte-scale cloud data warehouse delivering the best price-performance. Tens of thousands of customers run business-critical workloads on Amazon Redshift. Amazon Redshift offers many features that enable you to build scalable, highly performant, cost-effective, and easy-to-manage workloads. For example, you can scale an Amazon Redshift cluster up or down based on […]

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Amazon OpenSearch Service supports multiple instance types based on your use case. In 2021, AWS announced general purpose (M6g), compute optimized (C6g), and memory optimized (R6g, R6gd) instance types for Amazon OpenSearch Service version 7.9 or later powered by AWS […]

Part 1 of this series explains the importance of building and implementing a customer experience (CX) management and data monetization strategy for telecom service providers (TSPs), and the major challenges driving these initiatives. It also includes an AWS CloudFormation template to set up a demonstration of the solution using AWS services. It covers transforming and enriching […]

Amazon Redshift federated query allows you to combine data from one or more Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL and Amazon Aurora MySQL databases with data already in Amazon Redshift. You can also combine such data with data in an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lake. This post shows you how […]

April 2024: This post was reviewed for accuracy. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to threaten and take lives around the world, we must work together across organizations and scientific disciplines to fight this disease. Innumerable healthcare workers, medical researchers, scientists, and public health officials are already on the front lines caring for patients, searching for […]

In this post, I explain how to automate the deployment of an Amazon Redshift cluster in an AWS account. AWS best practices for security and high availability drive the cluster’s configuration, and you can create it quickly by using AWS CloudFormation. I walk you through a set of sample CloudFormation templates, which you can customize as per your needs.