AWS Big Data Blog

When designing multi-tenant streaming ingestion pipelines, there are myriad ways to design and build your streaming solution, each with its own set of trade-offs. The first decision you have to make is the strategy that determines how you choose to physically or logically separate one tenant’s data from another. Sharing compute and storage resources helps […]

Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in a data lake using standard SQL. One of the key elements of Athena is that you only pay for the queries you run. This is an attractive feature because there is no hardware to set up, manage, or maintain. You can query Athena […]

Today, the most successful and fastest growing companies are generally data-driven organizations. Taking advantage of data is pivotal to answering many pressing business problems; however, this can prove to be overwhelming and difficult to manage due to data’s increasing diversity, scale, and complexity. One of the most popular technologies that businesses use to overcome these […]

If you use data lakes in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and use Teradata as your transactional data store, you may need to join the data in your data lake with Teradata in the cloud, Teradata running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), or with an on-premises Teradata database, for example to build […]

On July 16, 2021, Amazon Athena upgraded its Apache Hudi integration with new features and support for Hudi’s latest 0.8.0 release. Hudi is an open-source storage management framework that provides incremental data processing primitives for Hadoop-compatible data lakes. This upgraded integration adds the latest community improvements to Hudi along with important new features including snapshot […]

This post is co-written with Clay Martin and Ajay Joshi from Jobcase as the lead authors. Jobcase is an online community dedicated to empowering and advocating for the world’s workers. We’re the third-largest destination for job search in the United States, and connect millions of Jobcasers to relevant job opportunities, companies, and other resources on […]

If you use data lakes in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and use Snowflake as your data warehouse solution, you may need to join your data in your data lake with Snowflake. For example, you may want to build a dashboard by joining historical data in your Amazon S3 data lake and the latest […]

Customers are adopting event-driven-architectures to improve the agility and resiliency of their applications. As a result, data engineers are increasingly looking for simple-to-use yet powerful and feature-rich data processing tools to build pipelines that enrich data, move data in and out of their data lake and data warehouse, and analyze data. AWS Glue is a […]

This post is co-written with Noah Mundahl, Director of Public Cloud Engineering at United Health Group. In this post, we cover a solution to add auto scaling to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. Whether you have one stream or many streams, you often need to scale them up when traffic increases and scale them down when […]

With AWS Glue DataBrew, data analysts and data scientists can easily access and visually explore any amount of data across their organization directly from their Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lake, Amazon Redshift data warehouse, or Amazon Aurora and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) databases. You can choose from over 250 built-in […]