Articles tagged with aws

How Amazon RDS Replication Works and Why the FAA’s Database Problem Won’t Happen in AWS — Bohan Zhang, Andy Pavlo @ OtterTune Blog

Basic overview of how Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora replication works. A good starting point to better understand what database replication is.

level:beginner topic:aws topic:databases

Improve federated queries with predicate pushdown in Amazon Athena — AWS Big Data Blog

Let’s talk about query optimization in Athena, especially about predicate pushdown under different databases.

level:medium topic:athena topic:aws topic:docker topic:storage-engine

Announcing Amazon EMR Serverless (Preview): Run big data applications without managing servers — AWS Big Data Blog.

EMR Serverless is in a public preview now!

level:medium topic:aws topic:emr

Design a data mesh architecture using AWS Lake Formation and AWS Glue — AWS Big Data Blog.

What is a data mesh? How to implement it? An AWS implementation of data architecture for data mesh.

level:medium topic:architecture topic:aws topic:glue

4 Layers of a Modern Data Pipeline — Thomas Kane.

It’s a short, but comprehensive post, which describes the author’s take on how modern pipelines are built and what they consist of (AWS stack and Open Source alternatives).

level:medium topic:architecture topic:aws