Category: Serverless

Data integration is the foundation of robust data analytics. It encompasses the discovery, preparation, and composition of data from diverse sources. In the modern data landscape, accessing, integrating, and transforming data from diverse sources is a vital process for data-driven decision-making. AWS Glue, a serverless data integration and extract, transform, and load (ETL) service, has […]

SmugMug operates two very large online photo platforms, SmugMug and Flickr, enabling more than 100 million customers to safely store, search, share, and sell tens of billions of photos. Customers uploading and searching through decades of photos helped turn search into critical infrastructure, growing steadily since SmugMug first used Amazon CloudSearch in 2012, followed by […]

Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is an on-demand, auto-scaling configuration for Amazon OpenSearch Service. OpenSearch Serverless enables a broad set of use cases, such as real-time application monitoring, log analytics, and website search. OpenSearch Serverless lets you use OpenSearch without having to worry about scaling and managing an OpenSearch cluster. A collection can be accessed over the […]

This is a guest post by Khandu Shinde, Staff Software Engineer and Edward Paget, Senior Software Engineering at Chime Financial. Chime is a financial technology company founded on the premise that basic banking services should be helpful, easy, and free. Chime partners with national banks to design member first financial products. This creates a more […]

Amazon’s serverless Apache Kafka offering, Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) Serverless, is attracting a lot of interest. It’s appreciated for its user-friendly approach, ability to scale automatically, and cost-saving benefits over other Kafka solutions. However, a hurdle encountered by many users is the requirement of MSK Serverless to use AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) access control. At the time of writing, the Amazon MSK library for IAM is exclusive to Kafka libraries in Java, creating a challenge for users of other programming languages. In this post, we aim to address this issue and present how you can use Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda to navigate around this obstacle.

Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is a serverless deployment option for Amazon OpenSearch Service that makes it simple for you to run search and analytics workloads without having to think about infrastructure management. The compute capacity used for data ingestion, and search and query in OpenSearch Serverless is measured in OpenSearch Compute Units (OCUs). Customers can configure […]

We recently announced new enhancements to Amazon OpenSearch Serverless that can scan and search source data sizes of up to 6 TB. At launch, OpenSearch Serverless supported searching one or more indexes within a collection, with the total combined size of up to 1 TB. With the support for 6 TB source data, you can now scale up your log analytics, machine learning applications, and ecommerce data more effectively. With OpenSearch Serverless, you can enjoy the benefits of these expanded limits without having to worry about sizing, monitoring your usage, or manually scaling an OpenSearch domain.

We are pleased to announce the preview release of the vector engine for Amazon OpenSearch Serverless. The vector engine provides a simple, scalable, and high-performing similarity search capability in Amazon OpenSearch Serverless that makes it easy for you to build modern machine learning (ML) augmented search experiences and generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications without having […]

This is a guest blog post co-written with Zack Rossman from Alcion. Alcion, a security-first, AI-driven backup-as-a-service (BaaS) platform, helps Microsoft 365 administrators quickly and intuitively protect data from cyber threats and accidental data loss. In the event of data loss, Alcion customers need to search metadata for the backed-up items (files, emails, contacts, events, […]

Amazon Redshift Serverless makes it simple to run and scale analytics in seconds. It automatically provisions and intelligently scales data warehouse compute capacity to deliver fast performance, and you pay only for what you use. Just load your data and start querying right away in the Amazon Redshift Query Editor or in your favorite business […]