A data lake is the perfect solution for storing and accessing your data, and enabling data analytics at scale - but do you know how to make the most of your AWS data lake? In this week’s blog post, we’re offering 10 data lake best practices that can help you optimize your AWS S3 data lake set-up and data management workflows, decrease time-to-insights, reduce costs, and get the most value from your AWS data lake deployment.

In today's evolving technological landscape, enterprises are under increasing pressure to deliver high-quality software at an accelerated pace. Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) provide a centralized developer portal that empowers developers with self-service capabilities, standardized development environments, and automation tools to accelerate the software development lifecycle.

Access to data is critical for SaaS companies to understand the state of their applications, and how that state affects customer experience. However, most companies use multiple applications, all of which generate their own independent data. This leads to data silos, or a group of raw data that is accessible to one stakeholder or department and not another.

Companies who develop software products generate massive quantities of product performance and user engagement data that can be analyzed to support decision-making about everything from feature planning and UX design to sales, marketing, and customer support.

As fraud continues to grow in prevalence, SecOps teams are increasingly investing in fraud prevention capabilities to protect themselves and their customers. One approach that’s proved reliable is the use of log analytics and telemetry data for fraud prevention. By collecting and analyzing data from various sources, including server logs, network traffic, and user behavior, enterprise SecOps teams can identify patterns and anomalies in real time that may indicate fraudulent activity.

What’s the right way to manage growing volumes of enterprise data, while providing the consistency, data quality and governance required for analytics at scale? Is centralizing data management in a data lake the right approach? Or is a distributed data mesh architecture right for your organization? When it comes down to it, most organizations seeking these solutions are looking for a way to analyze data without having to move or transform it via complex extract, transform and load (ETL) pipelines.

As enteprise networks grow larger and more complex, IT teams are increasingly dependent on the enhanced network visibility and monitoring capabilities provided by log analytics solutions. Log analytics gives enterprise Engineering, DevOps, and SecOps teams the ability to efficiently troubleshoot cloud services and infrastructure, monitor the security posture of enterprise IT assets, and measure application performance throughout the application lifecycle or DevOps release pipeline.

Wondering how to create a dashboard in Kibana to visualize and analyze your log data? In this blog post, we’ll provide a step-by-step explanation of how to create a dashboard in Kibana. You’ll learn how to use Kibana to query indexed application and event log data, filter query results to highlight the most critical and actionable information, build Kibana visualizations using your log data, and incorporate those visualizations into a Kibana dashboard.

Streaming analytics in AWS gives enterprises the ability to process and analyze log data in real time, enabling use cases that range from delivering personalized customer experiences to anomaly and fraud detection, application troubleshooting, and user behavior analysis. In the past, real-time log analytics solutions could process just a few thousand records per second and it would still take minutes or hours to process the data and get answers.

Since the 2006 launch of Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s first hyper-scale public cloud provider, thousands of data-driven businesses have shifted on-premise data storage and analytics workloads into the cloud by architecting or adopting a cloud data platform. As the volume, variety, and velocity of enterprise data continues to grow in 2023, cloud data platforms with legacy tech and complex architectures are becoming increasingly time-consuming and costly to manage.