Amazon EMR supports Apache Hive ACID transactions

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAmazon EMR supports Apache Hive ACID transactions Apache Hive is an open-source data warehouse package that runs on top of an Apache Hadoop cluster. You can use Hive for batch processing and large-scale data analysis. Hive uses Hive Query Language (HiveQL), which is similar to SQL. ACID (atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability)…

Amazon Lightsail now offers new OS blueprints

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAmazon Lightsail now offers new OS blueprints Amazon Lightsail now offers a variety of new OS-only instance blueprints, including Amazon Linux 2, Ubuntu 20, Windows Server 2019, and Debian 10. Lightsail provides a curated selection of blueprints that specify the operating system and software that is preinstalled on your instance bundle when…

Automated CloudFormation Testing Pipeline with TaskCat and CodePipeline

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAutomated CloudFormation Testing Pipeline with TaskCat and CodePipeline Researchers at Academic Medical Centers (AMCs) use programs such as Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) and Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap) to interact with healthcare data. Our internal team at AWS has provided solutions such as OHDSI-on-AWS and REDCap environments on AWS…