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Expanding the Cloud: Introducing Amazon QuickSight

All Things Distributed

Today, I am excited to share with you a brand new service called Amazon QuickSight that aims to simplify the process of deriving insights from a wide variety of data sources in a fast and affordable manner. Big data challenges. Enter Amazon QuickSight.

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5 data integration trends that will define the future of ETL in 2018

Abhishek Tiwari

In 2018, we will see new data integration patterns those rely either on a shared high-performance distributed storage interface ( Alluxio ) or a common data format ( Apache Arrow ) sitting between compute and storage. For instance, Alluxio, originally known as Tachyon, can potentially use Arrow as its in-memory data structure.

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Spice up your Analytics: Amazon QuickSight Now Generally Available in N. Virginia, Oregon, and Ireland.

All Things Distributed

They require companies to provision and maintain complex hardware infrastructure and invest in expensive software licenses, maintenance fees, and support fees that cost upwards of thousands of dollars per user per year. Data is automatically replicated across multiple Availability Zones for redundancy and also backed up to S3 for durability.

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