AWS Big Data Blog

Category: Analytics

Amazon Redshift delivers faster performance for BI dashboards and real-time analytics

Today, we’re excited to announce a new performance optimization in Amazon Redshift that improves the response times of low-latency SQL queries, such as those used in real-time analytics applications or generated by BI dashboards. With this enhancement, you can experience improved query latencies because of a reduction in the time Amazon Redshift spends preparing SQL queries for execution. SQL queries start faster, so they return results quicker.

Multi-Region identity-based access to Amazon Redshift and S3 Tables

In Part 1 of this series, we showed how to simplify enterprise data access using the Amazon Redshift integration with Amazon S3 Access Grants. In this post, we extend that solution across AWS Regions. We introduce a fictional company, AnyCompany Global, to illustrate how organizations with global operations can use AWS IAM Identity Center Multi-Region to set up consistent, identity-based access to Amazon Redshift and Amazon S3 Tables across Regions.

Detecting fraud patterns across Snowflake and AWS using SageMaker Data Agent

Amazon SageMaker Data Agent launches three new capabilities in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio notebooks: SQL analytics on Snowflake data sources, materialized view management, and interactive charting. Practitioners can use them together to query Snowflake alongside AWS data, pre-compute and schedule repeated aggregations, and create interactive visualizations from natural language prompts in a single notebook, without writing boilerplate code or switching tools. In this post, we describe the challenges these capabilities address, introduce each one, and walk through a fraud analytics scenario that demonstrates them working together in an end-to-end investigation workflow.

AI-assisted data development with Kiro and SageMaker Unified Studio

With the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code, you can connect Kiro, VS Code, or Cursor directly to Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio. This post demonstrates the integration using Kiro. The same Remote Access connection works with VS Code and Cursor. The post starts by showing what you can do with this integration: using natural language to explore and analyze data in a governed environment. We then walk through the setup so you can try it yourself.

Access Amazon S3 data files directly using AWS Lake Formation permissions

In this post, we demonstrate reading from and writing to Lake Formation-managed S3 locations using Apache Spark jobs from EMR. Lake Formation credential vending for S3 location access is available in EMR release label 7.13 and later, Boto3 1.42.29 and later, AWS Java SDK 2.41.32 and later, and AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) version 2.33.1 and later.

Building AI shopping agent using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime and Amazon OpenSearch Service

In this post, we explore how to build an online shopping AI agent. We focus on its architecture and implementation with Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and Strands Agents. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is an agentic platform for deploying and operating those agents and tools securely at scale without managing infrastructure.

Real-time CDC from Aurora PostgreSQL to Amazon S3 Tables using Debezium and Firehose

In this post, we show you how to build a CDC pipeline that delivers query-ready Iceberg tables directly. The pipeline captures inserts, updates, and deletes from Aurora PostgreSQL and applies them as row-level operations in Amazon S3 Tables, a capability of Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).