AWS Big Data Blog

Prior to joining AWS, I led a development team that built mobile advertising solutions with Elasticsearch. Elasticsearch is a popular open-source search and analytics engine for log analytics, real-time application monitoring, clickstream analysis, and (of course) search. The platform I was responsible for was essential to driving my company’s business. My team ran a self-managed […]

Yelp connects people with great local businesses. Since its launch in 2004, Yelp has grown from offering services for just one city—its headquarters home of San Francisco—to a multinational presence spanning major metros across more than 30 countries. The company’s performance-based advertising and transactional business model led to revenues of more than $500 million during […]

This guest post presents patterns for accessing an Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka cluster across your AWS account or Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) boundaries using AWS PrivateLink. In addition, the post discusses the pattern that the Transaction Banking team at Goldman Sachs (TxB) chose for their cross-account access, the reasons behind their […]

Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) is a fully managed service that makes it easy to deploy, secure, scale, and monitor your Elasticsearch cluster in the AWS Cloud. Elasticsearch is a distributed database solution, which can be difficult to plan for and execute. This post discusses some best practices for deploying Amazon ES domains.

With IBM announcing Netezza reaching end-of-life, you’re faced with the prospect of having to migrate your data and workloads off your analytics appliance. For some, this presents an opportunity to transition to the cloud.

Enter Amazon Redshift.

This post demonstrates how you can automate the data extraction, transformation, and use of Forecast for the use case of a retailer that requires recurring replenishment of inventory. You achieve this by using AWS Lake Formation to build a secure data lake and ingest data into it, orchestrate the data transformation using an AWS Glue workflow, and visualize the forecast results in Amazon QuickSight.

Building a modern data platform on AWS enables you to collect data of all types, store it in a central, secure repository, and analyze it with purpose-built tools. Yet you may be unsure of how to get started and the impact of certain design decisions. To address the need to provide advice tailored to specific technology and application domains, AWS added the concept of well-architected lenses 2017. AWS now is happy to announce the Analytics Lens for the AWS Well-Architected Framework. This post provides an introduction of its purpose, topics covered, common scenarios, and services included.

In this post, we discuss a number of techniques to enable efficient memory management for Apache Spark applications when reading data from Amazon S3 and compatible databases using a JDBC connector. We describe how Glue ETL jobs can utilize the partitioning information available from AWS Glue Data Catalog to prune large datasets, manage large number of small files, and use JDBC optimizations for partitioned reads and batch record fetch from databases.  You can use some or all of these techniques to help ensure your ETL jobs perform well.

This post demonstrates how to extend the metadata contained in the Data Catalog with profiling information calculated with an Apache Spark application based on the Amazon Deequ library running on an EMR cluster. You can query the Data Catalog using the AWS CLI. You can also build a reporting system with Athena and Amazon QuickSight to query and visualize the data stored in Amazon S3.

Tens of thousands of customers use Amazon Redshift to power their workloads to enable modern analytics use cases, such as Business Intelligence, predictive analytics, and real-time streaming analytics. As an administrator or data engineer, it’s important that your users, such as data analysts and BI professionals, get optimal performance. You can use the Amazon Redshift […]