AWS Big Data Blog

Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) is a managed orchestration service for Apache Airflow that significantly improves security and availability, and reduces infrastructure management overhead when setting up and operating end-to-end data pipelines in the cloud. Today, we are announcing the availability of Apache Airflow version 2.9.2 environments on Amazon MWAA. Apache Airflow […]

In this post, we show you how to get started with Apache XTable on AWS and how you can use it in a batch pipeline orchestrated with Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA). To understand how XTable and similar solutions work, we start with a high-level background on metadata management in an OTF and then dive deeper into XTable and its usage.

EchoStar, a connectivity company providing television entertainment, wireless communications, and award-winning technology to residential and business customers throughout the US, deployed the first standalone, cloud-native Open RAN 5G network on AWS public cloud. This post provides an overview of real-time data analysis with Amazon Redshift and how EchoStar uses it to ingest hundreds of megabytes per second. As data sources and volumes grew across its network, EchoStar migrated from a single Redshift Serverless workgroup to a multi-warehouse architecture with live data sharing.

We are excited to announce the preview of API-driven, OpenLineage-compatible data lineage in Amazon DataZone to help you capture, store, and visualize lineage of data movement and transformations of data assets on Amazon DataZone. With the Amazon DataZone OpenLineage-compatible API, domain administrators and data producers can capture and store lineage events beyond what is available […]

Apache Flink is an open source distributed processing engine, offering powerful programming interfaces for both stream and batch processing, with first-class support for stateful processing and event time semantics. Apache Flink supports multiple programming languages, Java, Python, Scala, SQL, and multiple APIs with different level of abstraction, which can be used interchangeably in the same […]

Fine-grained access control is a crucial aspect of data security for modern data lakes and data warehouses. As organizations handle vast amounts of data across multiple data sources, the need to manage sensitive information has become increasingly important. Making sure the right people have access to the right data, without exposing sensitive information to unauthorized […]

Amazon Redshift is a fast, scalable, secure, and fully managed cloud data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data using standard SQL and your existing ETL (extract, transform, and load), business intelligence (BI), and reporting tools. Tens of thousands of customers use Amazon Redshift to process exabytes of data per […]

Enterprise customers increasingly adopt Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion (OSI) to bring data into Amazon OpenSearch Service for various use cases. These include petabyte-scale log analytics, real-time streaming, security analytics, and searching semi-structured key-value or document data. OSI makes it simple, with straightforward integrations, to ingest data from many AWS services, including Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Simple Storage […]

Customers with data engineers and data scientists are using Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) as a central orchestration platform for running data pipelines and machine learning (ML) workloads. To support these pipelines, they often require additional Python packages, such as Apache Airflow Providers. For example, a pipeline may require the Snowflake provider […]

Amazon DataZone, a fully managed data management service, helps organizations catalog, discover, analyze, share, and govern data between data producers and consumers. We are excited to announce the introduction of advanced search filtering capabilities in the Amazon DataZone business data catalog. With the improved rendering of glossary terms, you can now navigate large sets of […]