Category: Amazon QuickSight

When was the last time you found yourself trying to look at rows and rows of data in a spreadsheet struggling to interpret and draw conclusions? Many analysts and engineers experience the same challenge every day. Whether it’s analyzing sales trends, monitoring operational metrics, or understanding customer behavior, the challenge lies not just in interpreting […]

Pendulum is an AI-powered analytics platform that aggregates and analyzes real-time data from social media, news, and podcasts. Designed to help organizations stay ahead, it enables reputation monitoring, early crisis detection, and influencer activity tracking. Using machine learning (ML) enables Pendulum to surface key insights from multiple channels, providing a comprehensive view of the digital […]

Modern data lakes integrate with multiple engines to meet a wide range of analytics needs, from SQL querying to stream processing. A key enabler of this approach is the adoption of Apache Iceberg as the open table format for building transactional data lakes. However, as the Iceberg ecosystem expands, the growing variety of engines and languages has […]

UPDATE (1/27/2025): Amazon S3 Metadata is generally available. Object storage provides virtually unlimited scalability, but managing billions, or even trillions, of objects can pose significant challenges. How do you know what data you have? How can you find the right datasets at the right time? By implementing a robust metadata management strategy, you can answer these […]

Update (10/30/2024): On October 30, 2024, AWS DataSync launched Enhanced mode tasks, prompting updates to this blog. Updates include a new step in the “Step 2: Populate Glue catalog with task reports data using a Glue crawler” section and detailed information on the new capabilities in “Updated steps for working with task reports of new […]

Organizations meet business and regulatory requirements by having visibility and control over backup environments. You want a streamlined solution to continuously monitor, detect, and track policy drifts across your backup deployments at scale. This need is driven by the growing complexity of AWS environments, the proliferation of data across diverse AWS services and regions, and […]

Update (02/13/2024): Consider Amazon S3 Lifecycle transition fees that are charged based on the total number of objects being transitioned, the destination storage class (listed on the Amazon S3 pricing page), as well as the additional metadata charges applied. You can use the S3 pricing calculator to estimate the total upfront and monthly costs by […]

When migrating data from on premises, customers seek a data store that is scalable, durable, and cost effective. Equally as important, BI must support modern, interactive, and fast dashboards that can scale to tens of thousands of users seamlessly while providing the ability to create meaningful data visualizations for analysis. Visualization of on-premises business analytics […]

IT disasters can not only disrupt your business, but also cause data loss, impact your revenue, and damage your reputation. CloudEndure Disaster Recovery, offered by AWS, minimizes downtime and data loss by providing fast, reliable recovery of physical, virtual, and cloud-based servers into AWS Cloud. The CloudEndure console gives you granular control over individual machines […]

Organizations are always looking to right-size cloud infrastructure and optimize to cost. Historically, one of the areas where it has been difficult to right-size at scale are Provisioned IOPS volumes on Amazon EBS, as optimization usually required third-party tools. The recently announced AWS Compute Optimizer assists in solving that problem, as it helps customers optimize compute resources […]