Data Is Vital

AWS continues to bulk up resources around data. Data, after all, deliver insights that support better business decisions and customer service. That was the focus of Swami Sivasubramanian’s keynote on Wednesday. Sivasubramanian, vice president of data and machine learning at AWS, spent a couple hours reviewing AWS’ data services, and debuting new ones.

Here are just a couple new offerings from AWS around data.

First, there’s the Glue Delivery specialization for partners with a consulting arm. AWS Glue is the cloud provider’s data integration service.

The new capability will help customers find validated AWS partners doing data integration, pipeline and catalog use cases via AWS Glue.

AWS Glue is serverless. It allows users to discover, prepare and combine data for analytics, machine learning, and application development. It can connect more than 30 data sources and supports integration pipelines in open source SparkSQL, PySpark and Scala. AWS also says Glue can process petabytes of data in real-time.

Some of the partners already holding the AWS Glue specialization include Ascending, Brillio, Mission Cloud Services and Quantiphi.

For all of AWS’ new data announcements, go here. Sivasubramanian also discussed AWS’ new zero-ETL approach, which AWS CEO Adam Selipsky unveiled on Nov. 29.