AWS Big Data Blog

Category: Analytics

Persist Streaming Data to Amazon S3 using Amazon Data Firehose and AWS Lambda

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. Streaming data analytics is becoming main-stream (pun intended) in large enterprises as the technology stacks have become more user-friendly to implement. For example, Spark-Streaming connected to an Amazon Kinesis stream is a […]

Introduction to Python UDFs in Amazon Redshift

Christopher Crosbie is a Healthcare and Life Science Solutions Architect with Amazon Web Services When your doctor takes out a prescription pad at your yearly checkup, do you ever stop to wonder what goes into her thought process as she decides on which drug to scribble down? We assume that journals of scientific evidence coupled […]

Using BlueTalon with Amazon EMR

This is a guest post by Pratik Verma, Founder and Chief Product Officer at BlueTalon. Leonid Fedotov, Senior Solution Architect at BlueTalon, also contributed to this post. Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR) makes it easy to quickly and cost-effectively process vast amounts of data in the cloud. EMR gets used for log, financial, fraud, and […]

Integrating Amazon Kinesis, Amazon S3 and Amazon Redshift with Cascading on Amazon EMR

This is a guest post by Ryan Desmond, Solutions Architect at Concurrent. Concurrent is an AWS Advanced Technology Partner. With Amazon Kinesis developers can quickly store, collate and access large, distributed data streams such as access logs, click streams and IoT data in real-time. The question then becomes, how can we access and leverage this […]

Implementing Efficient and Reliable Producers with the Amazon Kinesis Producer Library

Kevin Deng is an SDE with the Amazon Kinesis team and is the lead author of the Amazon Kinesis Producer Library How do you vertically scale an Amazon Kinesis producer application by 100x? While it’s easy to get started with streaming data into Amazon Kinesis, streaming large volumes of data efficiently and reliably presents some […]

Connecting R with Amazon Redshift

Markus Schmidberger is a Senior Big Data Consultant for AWS Professional Services Amazon Redshift is a fast, petabyte-scale cloud data warehouse for PB of data. AWS customers are moving huge amounts of structured data into Amazon Redshift to offload analytics workloads or to operate their DWH fully in the cloud. Business intelligence and analytic teams […]