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Category: HAQM Managed Service for Apache Flink

Apache Flink + Prometheus

Process millions of observability events with Apache Flink and write directly to Prometheus

In this post, we explain how the new connector works. We also show how you can manage your Prometheus metrics data cardinality by preprocessing raw data with Flink to build real-time observability with HAQM Managed Service for Prometheus and HAQM Managed Grafana.

Governing streaming data in HAQM DataZone with the Data Solutions Framework on AWS

In this post, we explore how AWS customers can extend HAQM DataZone to support streaming data such as HAQM Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (HAQM MSK) topics. Developers and DevOps managers can use HAQM MSK, a popular streaming data service, to run Kafka applications and Kafka Connect connectors on AWS without becoming experts in operating it.

Role of connectors in a Flink applications

Introducing the new HAQM Kinesis source connector for Apache Flink

On November 11, 2024, the Apache Flink community released a new version of AWS services connectors, an AWS open source contribution. This new release, version 5.0.0, introduces a new source connector to read data from HAQM Kinesis Data Streams. In this post, we explain how the new features of this connector can improve performance and reliability of your Apache Flink application.

Top 6 game changers from AWS that redefine streaming data

Recently, AWS introduced over 50 new capabilities across its streaming services, significantly enhancing performance, scale, and cost-efficiency. Some of these innovations have tripled performance, provided 20 times faster scaling, and reduced failure recovery times by up to 90%. We have made it nearly effortless for customers to bring real-time context to AI applications and lakehouses. In this post, we discuss the top six game changers that will redefine AWS streaming data.

Build a dynamic rules engine with HAQM Managed Service for Apache Flink

This post demonstrates how to implement a dynamic rules engine using HAQM Managed Service for Apache Flink. Our implementation provides the ability to create dynamic rules that can be created and updated without the need to change or redeploy the underlying code or implementation of the rules engine itself. We discuss the architecture, the key services of the implementation, some implementation details that you can use to build your own rules engine, and an AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) project to deploy this in your own account.

Solution Architecture

Publish and enrich real-time financial data feeds using HAQM MSK and HAQM Managed Service for Apache Flink

In this post, we demonstrate how you can publish an enriched real-time data feed on AWS using HAQM Managed Streaming for Kafka (HAQM MSK) and HAQM Managed Service for Apache Flink. You can apply this architecture pattern to various use cases within the capital markets industry; we discuss some of those use cases in this post.

HAQM Managed Service for Apache Flink State Transition

Improve the resilience of HAQM Managed Service for Apache Flink application with system-rollback feature

This post explores how to use the system-rollback feature in Managed Service for Apache Flink.We discuss how this functionality improves your application’s resilience by providing a highly available Flink application. Through an example, you will also learn how to use the APIs to have more visibility of the application’s operations.

Build a real-time analytics solution with Apache Pinot on AWS

In this, we will provide a step-by-step guide showing you how you can build a real-time OLAP datastore on HAQM Web Services (AWS) using Apache Pinot on HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (HAQM EC2) and do near real-time visualization using Tableau. You can use Apache Pinot for batch processing use cases as well but, in this post, we will focus on a near real-time analytics use case.

Roller cages solution

How PostNL processes billions of IoT events with HAQM Managed Service for Apache Flink

This post is co-written with Çağrı Çakır and Özge Kavalcı from PostNL. PostNL is the designated universal postal service provider for the Netherlands and has three main business units offering postal delivery, parcel delivery, and logistics solutions for ecommerce and cross-border solutions. With 5,800 retail points, 11,000 mailboxes, and over 900 automated parcel lockers, the […]