AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The Analytics specialty practice of AWS Professional Services (AWS ProServe) helps customers across the globe with modern data architecture implementations on the AWS Cloud. In this post, we discuss a common use case in relation to operational data processing and the solution we built using Apache Hudi and AWS Glue.

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O'Reilly on Data

OCTOBER 19, 2021

As with many burgeoning fields and disciplines, we don’t yet have a shared canonical infrastructure stack or best practices for developing and deploying data-intensive applications. Why: Data Makes It Different. Not only is data larger, but models—deep learning models in particular—are much larger than before.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 9, 2024

In todays data-driven world, tracking and analyzing changes over time has become essential. As organizations process vast amounts of data, maintaining an accurate historical record is crucial. History management in data systems is fundamental for compliance, business intelligence, data quality, and time-based analysis.

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AWS Big Data

AUGUST 9, 2024

As businesses strive to make informed decisions, the amount of data being generated and required for analysis is growing exponentially. This trend is no exception for Dafiti , an ecommerce company that recognizes the importance of using data to drive strategic decision-making processes. We started with 115 dc2.large

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 17, 2024

With Amazon EMR 6.15, we launched AWS Lake Formation based fine-grained access controls (FGAC) on Open Table Formats (OTFs), including Apache Hudi, Apache Iceberg, and Delta lake. Many large enterprise companies seek to use their transactional data lake to gain insights and improve decision-making.

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Objective Gupshup wanted to build a messaging analytics platform that provided: Build a platform to get detailed insights, data, and reports about WhatsApp/SMS campaigns and track the success of every text message sent by the end customers. Additionally, extract, load, and transform (ELT) data processing is sped up and made easier.

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 8, 2024

We’re living in the age of real-time data and insights, driven by low-latency data streaming applications. The volume of time-sensitive data produced is increasing rapidly, with different formats of data being introduced across new businesses and customer use cases.

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Corinium

APRIL 25, 2019

Ahead of the Chief Data Analytics Officers & Influencers, Insurance event we caught up with Dominic Sartorio, Senior Vice President for Products & Development, Protegrity to discuss how the industry is evolving. The last 10+ years or so have seen Insurance become as data-driven as any vertical industry.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 25, 2024

FMs are multimodal; they work with different data types such as text, video, audio, and images. Large language models (LLMs) are a type of FM and are pre-trained on vast amounts of text data and typically have application uses such as text generation, intelligent chatbots, or summarization.

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AWS Big Data

MAY 30, 2023

Customers have been using data warehousing solutions to perform their traditional analytics tasks. Recently, data lakes have gained lot of traction to become the foundation for analytical solutions, because they come with benefits such as scalability, fault tolerance, and support for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured datasets.

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Cloudera

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

It sounds straightforward: you just need data and the means to analyze it. The data is there, in spades. Data volumes have been growing for years and are predicted to reach 175 ZB by 2025. First, organizations have a tough time getting their arms around their data. Unified data fabric. Yes and no.

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This data is used in procuring devices’ inventory to meet Amazon customers’ demands. With data volumes exhibiting a double-digit percentage growth rate year on year and the COVID pandemic disrupting global logistics in 2021, it became more critical to scale and generate near-real-time data.

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

In fact, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) Annual Data Breach Report , there were 2,365 cyber attacks in 2023 with more than 300 million victims, and a 72% increase in data breaches since 2021. However, there is a fundamental challenge standing in the way of being successful: data.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 18, 2024

It always pays to know more about your customers, and AWS Data Exchange makes it straightforward to use publicly available census data to enrich your customer dataset. The United States Census Bureau conducts the US census every 10 years and gathers household survey data. Subscribe to census data on AWS Data Exchange.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 19, 2023

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed and petabyte-scale cloud data warehouse that is used by tens of thousands of customers to process exabytes of data every day to power their analytics workload. You can structure your data, measure business processes, and get valuable insights quickly can be done by using a dimensional model.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 3, 2023

In this post, we share how the AWS Data Lab helped Tricentis to improve their software as a service (SaaS) Tricentis Analytics platform with insights powered by Amazon Redshift. Although Tricentis has amassed such data over a decade, the data remains untapped for valuable insights.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 20, 2023

We discuss how to create such a solution using Amazon Kinesis Data Streams , Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (Amazon MSK), Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for Apache Flink ; the design decisions that went into the architecture; and the observed business benefits by Poshmark.

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 27, 2023

To build a data-driven business, it is important to democratize enterprise data assets in a data catalog. With a unified data catalog, you can quickly search datasets and figure out data schema, data format, and location. GenericInMemoryCatalog stores the catalog data in memory.

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IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The magic behind Uber’s data-driven success Uber, the ride-hailing giant, is a household name worldwide. But what most people don’t realize is that behind the scenes, Uber is not just a transportation service; it’s a data and analytics powerhouse. Consider the magnitude of Uber’s footprint.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 28, 2023

Amazon Redshift is a petabyte-scale, enterprise-grade cloud data warehouse service delivering the best price-performance. Today, tens of thousands of customers run business-critical workloads on Amazon Redshift to cost-effectively and quickly analyze their data using standard SQL and existing business intelligence (BI) tools.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 20, 2024

In this post, we share part of the journey that Jumia took with AWS Professional Services to modernize its data platform that ran under a Hadoop distribution to AWS serverless based solutions. These phases are: data orchestration, data migration, data ingestion, data processing, and data maintenance.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Data lakes were originally designed to store large volumes of raw, unstructured, or semi-structured data at a low cost, primarily serving big data and analytics use cases. By using features like Icebergs compaction, OTFs streamline maintenance, making it straightforward to manage object and metadata versioning at scale.

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

In fact, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) Annual Data Breach Report , there were 2,365 cyber attacks in 2023 with more than 300 million victims, and a 72% increase in data breaches since 2021. However, there is a fundamental challenge standing in the way of being successful: data.

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

To optimize their security operations, organizations are adopting modern approaches that combine real-time monitoring with scalable data analytics. They are using data lake architectures and Apache Iceberg to efficiently process large volumes of security data while minimizing operational overhead.

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