AWS Big Data Blog

Category: Storage

Fresher insights, faster decisions: talabat’s near-real-time analytics across AWS and Google Cloud

Fresher insights, faster decisions: talabat’s near-real-time analytics across AWS and Google Cloud

Leading everyday app across the Middle East and North Africa, talabat, built a hybrid multi-cloud lakehouse that keeps a single Apache Iceberg copy of streaming data on Amazon S3 Tables while letting Google BigQuery query it in place, eliminating cross-cloud data duplication and schema-synchronization overhead.

How Autodesk migrated 2.3 billion documents to Amazon OpenSearch Service using Migration Assistant and intelligent routing

This post walks through how Autodesk re-architected a single-index Elasticsearch 7.1.1 domain on Amazon OpenSearch Service into four multi-index OpenSearch Service domains, using Migration Assistant for Amazon OpenSearch Service and a routing layer that directs each query to the shards that hold the data for that query.

Deliver Apache Kafka data to streaming tables for Apache Iceberg with Amazon MSK Express brokers

Deliver Apache Kafka data to streaming tables for Apache Iceberg with Amazon MSK Express brokers

Announcing delivery to streaming tables on Apache Iceberg for Amazon MSK Express brokers, a fully managed capability that continuously materializes your Kafka streaming data as queryable Iceberg tables on Amazon S3 Tables. No connectors, Flink jobs, or custom consumers to manage, and no code to write.

Build a contract compliance search system with Amazon OpenSearch

In this post, you build a contract compliance search system that combines semantic search with semantic highlighting in Amazon OpenSearch Service. You deploy the solution using two AWS CloudFormation stacks, test it with synthetic contract documents, and see how a single query surfaces both the right contracts and the right clauses within them.

Automate creating AWS Glue Data Catalog views with AWS SDK for data mesh use case

This post shows you how to use the Catalog objects API CreateTable() to programmatically create ATHENA and SPARK dialects using cross-account IAM definer roles, and how to add the ATHENA dialect programmatically for the views that were created earlier with only SPARK dialect.

Zero Copy access to Apache Iceberg tables in Amazon S3 from Salesforce Data 360 using the Iceberg REST endpoint from AWS Glue Data Catalog

In this post, we demonstrate how AWS and Salesforce customers can access their enterprise data lakes on AWS from Salesforce Data 360 using zero-copy file federation.

Patch perfect: Automating Amazon Redshift patch testing

In this post, we demonstrate an automated test suite that validates your Amazon Redshift cluster automatically after any patch, reboot, or modification. It uses standard drivers against real workload patterns to provide a verified gate between a patch landing and that patch reaching production.

Cut costs and simplify operations with writable warm storage in Amazon OpenSearch Service

In this post, I show you how writable warm storage removes the costly migration cycle. You can reduce your infrastructure costs by up to 48 percent and update historical data in seconds instead of hours. I walk through a real-world cost comparison and performance benchmarks, and help you decide when to use writable warm versus UltraWarm.

How BigBasket uses the Iceberg based lakehouse architecture on AWS to power lightning-fast grocery delivery across India

In this post, we demonstrate how BigBasket implemented the lakehouse architecture on AWS, including their architecture decisions, implementation approach, and the measurable business results you can expect from a similar modernization. Whether you’re facing scalability challenges or planning your own lakehouse implementation, this blueprint provides actionable insights you can adapt for your organization.

Deploy modern data platforms in minutes with MDAA

In this post, we explore how MDAA transforms data architecture development from months of manual coding to production-ready deployment through configuration-driven infrastructure and embedded governance, examine a real customer transformation, and provide a clear implementation pathway for your own data modernization journey.