AWS Big Data Blog

Category: Technical How-to

Using AWS Glue Data Catalog views with Apache Spark in EMR Serverless and Glue 5.0

In this post, we guide you through the process of creating a Data Catalog view using EMR Serverless, adding the SQL dialect to the view for Athena, sharing it with another account using LF-Tags, and then querying the view in the recipient account using a separate EMR Serverless workspace and AWS Glue 5.0 Spark job and Athena. This demonstration showcases the versatility and cross-account capabilities of Data Catalog views and access through various AWS analytics services.

Build a centralized observability platform for Apache Spark on Amazon EMR on EKS using external Spark History Server

This post demonstrates how to build a centralized observability platform using SHS for Spark applications running on EMR on EKS. We showcase how to enhance SHS with performance monitoring tools, with a pattern applicable to many monitoring solutions such as SparkMeasure and DataFlint.

Architecture patterns to optimize Amazon Redshift performance at scale

In this post, we will show you five Amazon Redshift architecture patterns that you can consider to optimize your Amazon Redshift data warehouse performance at scale using features such as Amazon Redshift Serverless, Amazon Redshift data sharing, Amazon Redshift Spectrum, zero-ETL integrations, and Amazon Redshift streaming ingestion.

PackScan: Building real-time sort center analytics with AWS Services

In this post, we explore how PackScan uses Amazon cloud-based services to drive real-time visibility, improve logistics efficiency, and support the seamless movement of packages across Amazon’s Middle Mile network.

Unlock self-serve streaming SQL with Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink

In this post, we present Riskified’s journey toward enabling self-service streaming SQL pipelines. We walk through the motivations behind the shift from Confluent ksqlDB to Apache Flink, the architecture Riskified built using Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink, the technical challenges they faced, and the solutions that helped them make streaming accessible, scalable, and production-ready.

Unify streaming and analytical data with Amazon Data Firehose and Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse

In this post, we show you how to create Iceberg tables in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio and stream data to these tables using Firehose. With this integration, data engineers, analysts, and data scientists can seamlessly collaborate and build end-to-end analytics and ML workflows using SageMaker Unified Studio, removing traditional silos and accelerating the journey from data ingestion to production ML models.

Access Amazon Redshift Managed Storage tables through Apache Spark on AWS Glue and Amazon EMR using Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse

With SageMaker Lakehouse, you can access tables stored in Amazon Redshift managed storage (RMS) through Iceberg APIs, using the Iceberg REST catalog backed by AWS Glue Data Catalog. This post describes how to integrate data on RMS tables through Apache Spark using SageMaker Unified Studio, Amazon EMR 7.5.0 and higher, and AWS Glue 5.0.

Petabyte-scale data migration made simple: AppsFlyer’s best practice journey with Amazon EMR Serverless

In this post, we share how AppsFlyer successfully migrated their massive data infrastructure from self-managed Hadoop clusters to Amazon EMR Serverless, detailing their best practices, challenges to overcome, and lessons learned that can help guide other organizations in similar transformations.

Configure cross-account access of Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse multi-catalog tables using AWS Glue 5.0 Spark

In this post, we show you how to share an Amazon Redshift table and Amazon S3 based Iceberg table from the account that owns the data to another account that consumes the data. In the recipient account, we run a join query on the shared data lake and data warehouse tables using Spark in AWS Glue 5.0. We walk you through the complete cross-account setup and provide the Spark configuration in a Python notebook.