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Large organizations processing huge volumes of data usually store it in HAQM Simple Storage Service (HAQM S3) and query the data to make data-driven business decisions using distributed analytics engines such as HAQM Athena. If you simply run queries without considering the optimal data layout on HAQM S3, it results in a high volume of […]

Using HAQM OpenSearch Service’s vector database capabilities, you can implement semantic search, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with LLMs, recommendation engines, and search in rich media. Learn how.

In today’s world, customers manage vast amounts of data in their HAQM Simple Storage Service (HAQM S3) data lakes, which requires convoluted data pipelines to continuously understand the changes in the data layout and make them available to consuming systems. AWS Glue crawlers provide a straightforward way to catalog data in the AWS Glue Data […]

HAQM OpenSearch Service is a managed service that makes it simple to secure, deploy, and operate OpenSearch clusters at scale in the AWS Cloud. Last year, we introduced Shard Indexing Backpressure and admission control, which monitors cluster resources and incoming traffic to selectively reject requests that would otherwise pose stability risks like out of memory […]

HAQM QuickSight is a scalable, serverless, embeddable, machine learning (ML) powered business intelligence (BI) service built for the cloud that supports identity federation in both Standard and Enterprise editions. Organizations are working toward centralizing their identity and access strategy across all their applications, including on-premises and third-party. Many organizations use Keycloak as their identity provider […]

August 2023: This post was updated to include Apache Iceberg support in HAQM Redshift. Disclaimer: Due to rapid advancements in AWS service support for open table formats, recent developments might not yet be reflected in this post. For the latest information on AWS service support for open table formats, refer to the official AWS service […]

In today’s fast-paced digital world, businesses rely heavily on their data to make informed decisions. This data is often stored and analyzed using various tools, such as HAQM OpenSearch Service, a powerful search and analytics service offered by AWS. OpenSearch Service provides real-time insights into your data to support use cases like interactive log analytics, […]

Today, AWS is announcing the availability of in-place version upgrades for HAQM Managed Workflow for Apache Airflow (HAQM MWAA). This enhancement allows you to seamlessly upgrade your existing Apache Airflow version 2.x environments to newer available versions while retaining the workflow run history and environment configurations. You can now take advantage of the latest capabilities […]

September 2023: This post was reviewed and updated with a new dataset and related code blocks and images. AWS SDK for pandas is a popular Python library among data scientists, data engineers, and developers. It simplifies interaction between AWS data and analytics services and pandas DataFrames. It allows easy integration and data movement between 22 […]

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. Data lakes are not transactional by default; however, there […]