Amazon Redshift Benchmarking: Comparison of RA3 vs. DS2 Instance Types 

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAmazon Redshift Benchmarking: Comparison of RA3 vs. DS2 Instance Types  By Jayaraman Palaniappan, CTO & Head of Innovation Labs at AgilisiumBy Smitha Basavaraju, Big Data Architect at AgilisiumBy Saunak Chandra, Sr. Solutions Architect at AWS Agilisium Consulting, an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner with the Amazon Redshift Service Delivery designation, is excited to…

Controlling and auditing data exploration activities with Amazon SageMaker Studio and AWS Lake Formation

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedControlling and auditing data exploration activities with Amazon SageMaker Studio and AWS Lake Formation Highly-regulated industries, such as financial services, are often required to audit all access to their data. This includes auditing exploratory activities performed by data scientists, who usually query data from within machine learning (ML) notebooks. This post walks…

re:Invent open source highlights: Week 3

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services Feedre:Invent open source highlights: Week 3 Over the past three weeks, re:Invent 2020 has featured hundreds of sessions across many different topics and tracks. In this third and final post of the series, we’ll share open source highlights from week three. If you missed the previous articles, make sure you check out…

Building high-quality benchmark tests for Amazon Redshift using Apache JMeter

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedBuilding high-quality benchmark tests for Amazon Redshift using Apache JMeter In the introductory post of this series, we discussed benchmarking benefits and best practices common across different open-source benchmarking tools. As a reminder of why benchmarking is important, Amazon Redshift allows you to scale storage and compute independently, and for you to…