AWS Big Data Blog
Category: Customer Solutions
Powering global payout intelligence: How MassPay uses Amazon Redshift Serverless and zero-ETL to drive deeper analytics.
In this blog post we shall cover how understanding real-time payout performance, identifying customer behavior patterns across regions, and optimizing internal operations required more than traditional business intelligence and analytics tools. And how since implementing Amazon Redshift and Zero-ETL, MassPay has seen 90% reduction in data availability latency, payments data available for analytics 1.5x faster, leading to 45% reduction in time-to-insight and 37% fewer support tickets related to transaction visibility and payment inquiries.
PackScan: Building real-time sort center analytics with AWS Services
In this post, we explore how PackScan uses Amazon cloud-based services to drive real-time visibility, improve logistics efficiency, and support the seamless movement of packages across Amazon’s Middle Mile network.
How Airties achieved scalability and cost-efficiency by moving from Kafka to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
Airties is a wireless networking company that provides AI-driven solutions for enhancing home connectivity. This post explores the strategies the Airties team employed during their migration from Apache Kafka to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, the challenges they overcame, and how they achieved a more efficient, scalable, and maintenance-free streaming infrastructure.
Unlock self-serve streaming SQL with Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink
In this post, we present Riskified’s journey toward enabling self-service streaming SQL pipelines. We walk through the motivations behind the shift from Confluent ksqlDB to Apache Flink, the architecture Riskified built using Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink, the technical challenges they faced, and the solutions that helped them make streaming accessible, scalable, and production-ready.
How LaunchDarkly migrated to Amazon MWAA to achieve efficiency and scale
In this post, we explore how LaunchDarkly scaled the internal analytics platform up to 14,000 tasks per day, with minimal increase in costs, after migrating from another vendor-managed Apache Airflow solution to AWS, using Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) and Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS).
How Flutter UKI optimizes data pipelines with AWS Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow
In this post, we share how Flutter UKI transitioned from a monolithic Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)-based Airflow setup to a scalable and optimized Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) architecture using features like Kubernetes Pod Operator, continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) integration, and performance optimization techniques.
How BMW Group built a serverless terabyte-scale data transformation architecture with dbt and Amazon Athena
At the BMW Group, our Cloud Efficiency Analytics (CLEA) team has developed a FinOps solution to optimize costs across over 10,000 cloud accounts This post explores our journey, from the initial challenges to our current architecture, and details the steps we took to achieve a highly efficient, serverless data transformation setup.
Implement Amazon EMR HBase Graceful Scaling
Apache HBase is a massively scalable, distributed big data store in the Apache Hadoop ecosystem. We can use Amazon EMR with HBase on top of Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for random, strictly consistent real-time access for tables with Apache Kylin. This post demonstrates how to gracefully decommission target region servers programmatically.
Amazon Prime Video advances search for sports using Amazon OpenSearch Service
In this post, we will walk you through how Prime Video used Amazon OpenSearch Service and its AI and machine learning (AI/ML) capabilities to build a more intuitive and enhanced sports search experience.
How Open Universities Australia modernized their data platform and significantly reduced their ETL costs with AWS Cloud Development Kit and AWS Step Functions
At Open Universities Australia (OUA), we empower students to explore a vast array of degrees from renowned Australian universities, all delivered through online learning. In this post, we show you how we used AWS services to replace our existing third-party ETL tool, improving the team’s productivity and producing a significant reduction in our ETL operational costs.