AWS Big Data Blog

Today, we are announcing broker removal capability for Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) provisioned clusters, which lets you remove multiple brokers from your provisioned clusters. You can now reduce your cluster’s storage and compute capacity by removing sets of brokers, with no availability impact, data durability risk, or disruption to your data streaming […]

Apache Airflow is a popular platform for enterprises looking to orchestrate complex data pipelines and workflows. Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) is a managed service that streamlines the setup and operation of secure and highly available Airflow environments in the cloud. In this post, we’re excited to introduce two new features that […]

In this post, we discuss how Amazon Redshift spatial index functions such as Hexagonal hierarchical geospatial indexing system (or H3) can be used to represent spatial data using H3 indexing for fast spatial lookups at scale. Navigating the vast landscape of data-driven insights has always been an exciting endeavor. As technology continues to evolve, one specific facet of this journey is reaching unprecedented proportions: geospatial data.

An AWS Elastic IP (EIP) address is a static, public, and unique IPv4 address. In this post, we show you how to analyze EIP usage history using AWS CloudTrail and Amazon Athena to have a better insight of your EIP usage pattern in your AWS account. You can use this solution regularly as part of your cost-optimization efforts to safely remove unused EIPs to reduce your costs.

As data analytics use cases grow, factors of scalability and concurrency become crucial for businesses. Your analytic solution architecture should be able to handle large data volumes at high concurrency and without compromising speed, thereby delivering a scalable high-performance analytics environment. Amazon Redshift Serverless provides a fully managed, petabyte-scale, auto scaling cloud data warehouse to […]

In this post, we show you how to use the new views feature the AWS Glue Data Catalog. SQL views are a powerful object used across relational databases. You can use views to decrease the time to insights of data by tailoring the data that is queried. Additionally, you can use the power of SQL […]

Data governance is a key enabler for teams adopting a data-driven culture and operational model to drive innovation with data. Amazon DataZone is a fully managed data management service that makes it faster and easier for customers to catalog, discover, share, and govern data stored across Amazon Web Services (AWS), on premises, and on third-party […]

In today’s data-driven landscape, the efficiency and accessibility of querying tools play a crucial role in driving businesses forward. Amazon Redshift recently announced integration with Visual Studio Code (), an action that transforms the way data practitioners engage with Amazon Redshift and reshapes your interactions and practices in data management. This innovation not only unlocks […]

In today’s data-driven landscape, managing and analyzing vast amounts of data, especially logs, is crucial for organizations to derive insights and make informed decisions. However, handling this data efficiently presents a significant challenge, prompting organizations to seek scalable solutions without the complexity of infrastructure management. Amazon OpenSearch Serverless lets you run OpenSearch in the AWS […]

AWS Glue is a fully managed, serverless data integration service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that uses Apache Spark as one of its backend processing engines (as of this writing, you can use Python Shell, Spark, or Ray). Data skew occurs when the data being processed is not evenly distributed across the Spark cluster, […]