AWS Big Data Blog

Amazon DataZone has announced a set of new data governance capabilities—domain units and authorization policies—that enable you to create business unit-level or team-level organization and manage policies according to your business needs. In this post, we discuss common approaches to structuring domain units, use cases that customers in the healthcare and life sciences (HCLS) industry encounter, and how to get started with the new domain units and authorization policies features from Amazon DataZone.

In this blog post, we explore how to use the SFTP Connector for AWS Glue from the AWS Marketplace to efficiently process data from Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) servers into Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), further empowering your data analytics and insights.

Amazon Redshift Advisor offers recommendations about optimizing your Redshift cluster performance and helps you save on operating costs. In this post, we show you how to use the ListRecommendations API to set up email notifications for Advisor recommendations on your Redshift cluster. These recommendations, such as identifying tables that should be vacuumed to sort the data or finding table columns that are candidates for compression, can help improve performance and save costs.

As businesses strive to make informed decisions, the amount of data being generated and required for analysis is growing exponentially. This trend is no exception for Dafiti, an ecommerce company that recognizes the importance of using data to drive strategic decision-making processes. With the ever-increasing volume of data available, Dafiti faces the challenge of effectively managing and extracting valuable insights from this vast pool of information to gain a competitive edge and make data-driven decisions that align with company business objectives. The growing need for storage space to maintain data from over 90 sources and the functionality available on the new Amazon Redshift node types, including managed storage, data sharing, and zero-ETL integrations, led us to migrate from DC2 to RA3 nodes. In this post, we share how we handled the migration process and provide further impressions of our experience.

AppsFlyer develops a leading measurement solution focused on privacy, which enables marketers to gauge the effectiveness of their marketing activities and integrates them with the broader marketing world, managing a vast volume of 100 billion events every day. This post explores how AppsFlyer modernized their Audiences Segmentation product by using Amazon Athena.

Modern business applications rely on timely and accurate data with increasing demand for real-time analytics. There is a growing need for efficient and scalable data storage solutions. Data at times is stored in different datasets and needs to be consolidated before meaningful and complete insights can be drawn from the datasets. This is where replication […]

Glue Data Catalog views is a new feature of the AWS Glue Data Catalog that customers can use to create a common view schema and single metadata container that can hold view-definitions in different dialects that can be used across engines such as Amazon Redshift and Amazon Athena. In this blog post, we will show how you can define and query a Data Catalog view on top of open source table formats such as Iceberg across Athena and Amazon Redshift. We will also show you the configurations needed to restrict access to the underlying database and tables. To follow along, we have provided an AWS CloudFormation template.

We are excited to announce the general availability of anomaly detection capabilities in AWS Glue Data Quality. In this post, we demonstrate how this feature works with an example. We provide an AWS Cloud Formation template to deploy this setup and experiment with this feature.

Amazon OpenSearch Service securely unlocks real-time search, monitoring, and analysis of business and operational data for use cases like application monitoring, log analytics, observability, and website search. In this post, we examine the OR1 instance type, an OpenSearch optimized instance introduced on November 29, 2023. OR1 is an instance type for Amazon OpenSearch Service that […]

In today’s landscape, data streams continuously from countless sources such as social media interactions to Internet of Things (IoT) device readings. This torrent of real-time information presents both a challenge and an opportunity for businesses. To harness the power of this data effectively, organizations need robust systems for ingesting, processing, and analyzing streaming data at […]