Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is now expanding its Apache Flink offering by adding support for Python. This is exciting news for many of our customers who use Python as their primary language for application development. This new feature enables developers to build Apache Flink applications in Python using serverless Kinesis Read more…
Today we announced Auto-Tune in Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES), an innovation undertaken to automatically optimize resources in Elasticsearch clusters to improve its performance and availability. Auto-Tune gives us a unique opportunity of applying our learnings from operating clusters at cloud scale on our service to make the Elasticsearch core Read more…
Let’s describe the typical use case where a tracking pixel solution, also known as a web beacon, might help you: Analyzing web traffic is critical to understanding user behavior in order to improve their experience. Let’s think about a company—Example Company Hotels—that embeds a piece of HTML into a high-traffic, Read more…
Let’s describe the typical use case where a tracking pixel solution, also known as a web beacon, might help you: Analyzing web traffic is critical to understanding user behavior in order to improve their experience. Let’s think about a company—Example Company Hotels—that embeds a piece of HTML into a high-traffic, Read more…
AWS Glue is fully managed service that makes it easier for you to extract, transform, and load (ETL) data for analytics. You can easily create ETL jobs to connect to backend data sources. There are several natively supported data sources, but what if you need to extract data from an Read more…
AWS Glue is fully managed service that makes it easier for you to extract, transform, and load (ETL) data for analytics. You can easily create ETL jobs to connect to backend data sources. There are several natively supported data sources, but what if you need to extract data from an Read more…
We announced the preview of AWS Lake Formation transactions, row-level security, and acceleration at AWS re:Invent 2020. In Part 1 of this series, we explained how to set up a governed table and add objects to it. In this post, we expand on this example, and demonstrate how to ingest streaming data into governed Read more…
Apache HBase is an open-source, NoSQL database that you can use to achieve low latency random access to billions of rows. Starting with Amazon EMR 5.2.0, you can enable HBase on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). With HBase on Amazon S3, the HBase data files (HFiles) are written to Read more…
This post is co-written by Mei Long at Upsolver. Software as a service (SaaS) based applications are in demand today, and customers have growing need for adopting many of them in their use cases. As adoption grows, extracting data within these various SaaS applications and running analytics across them gets Read more…
This is a guest blog post by Best Western Hotels and Resorts. In their own words, “Best Western Hotels & Resorts is an award-winning global network of hotels located in over 100 countries and territories that offers accommodations for all types of travelers.” With 18 brands and varied ownership structures Read more…