Amazon Q data integration, introduced in January 2024, allows you to use natural language to author extract, transform, load (ETL) jobs and operations in AWS Glue specific data abstraction DynamicFrame. This post introduces exciting new capabilities for Amazon Q data integration that work together to make ETL development more efficient and intuitive. We’ve added support…
Jumia is a technology company born in 2012, present in 14 African countries, with its main headquarters in Lagos, Nigeria. Jumia is built around a marketplace, a logistics service, and a payment service. The logistics service enables the delivery of packages through a network of local partners, and the payment service facilitates the payments of…
Organizational data is often fragmented across multiple lines of business, leading to inconsistent and sometimes duplicate datasets. This fragmentation can delay decision-making and erode trust in available data. Amazon DataZone, a data management service, helps you catalog, discover, share, and govern data stored across AWS, on-premises systems, and third-party sources. Although Amazon DataZone automates subscription…
Data lakes were originally designed to store large volumes of raw, unstructured, or semi-structured data at a low cost, primarily serving big data and analytics use cases. Over time, as organizations began to explore broader applications, data lakes have become essential for various data-driven processes beyond just reporting and analytics. Today, they play a critical…
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This post is cowritten by Tommaso Paracciani and Oghosa Omorisiagbon from HEMA. Data has become an invaluable asset for businesses, offering critical insights to drive strategic decision-making and operational optimization. However, many companies today still struggle to effectively harness and use their data due to challenges such as data silos, lack of discoverability, poor data…
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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 Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. In this post, we explain how the new features of this connector can improve performance and…
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This post is co-written with Elliott Choi from Cohere. The ability to quickly access relevant information is a key differentiator in today’s competitive landscape. As user expectations for search accuracy continue to rise, traditional keyword-based search methods often fall short in delivering truly relevant results. In the rapidly evolving landscape of AI-powered search, organizations are…
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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….
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This blog was co-authored by DeNA Co., Ltd. and Amazon Web Services Japan. DeNA Co., Ltd. (DeNA) engages in a variety of businesses, from games and live communities to sports & the community and healthcare & medical, under our mission to delight people beyond their wildest dreams. Among these, the healthcare & medical business handles…
Amazon Redshift, launched in 2013, has undergone significant evolution since its inception, allowing customers to expand the horizons of data warehousing and SQL analytics. Today, Amazon Redshift is used by customers across all industries for a variety of use cases, including data warehouse migration and modernization, near real-time analytics, self-service analytics, data lake analytics, machine…
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