@ziniman
Making	Better	Decisions	
using	Big	Data	and	Analytics
BIG	DATA	@Arison School	of	Business - IDC	Herzeliya
October	2017
Boaz	Ziniman	- Technical	Evangelist,	AWS
2006 EC2	&	S3
2017 90+	Managed	Services
Kinesis	Streaming	Analytics,	Mobile	Testing,	
Redshift	Datawarehouse,	Code	Deploy/Build	
Tools,	Elastic	Container	Service,	Application	Load	
Balancer,	Lambda,	API	Gateway,	DynamoDB,	
Elastic	Map	Reduce	(Hadoop/Spark/Presto/etc),	
Elastic	Beanstalk,	Elastic	Transcoder,	RDS,	
Elasticsearch,	IoT,	AI,	more..
AWS	Rapid	Pace	Of	Innovation
BIG	DATA
• Mobile-game	company	based	in	Finland	
• Clash	Royal,	Hay	Day,	Clash	of	Clans,	Boom	
Beach…
• Early	launches	requirements	for	high-volume	
game	performance	and	rapid	growth
• 45	billion	in-game	events	each	day
The	world	of	gaming	
never	sleeps	...	
We	owe	every	player	a	
great	experience,	and	
AWS	is	our	platform	to	
make	that	happen
Sami	Yliharju
Services	Lead,	SuperCell
“
”
Financial	Times	Uses	AWS	to	Reduce	Query	
Time	by	98%
Financial Times is one of the world’s leading business news
organizations, with a combined paid print and digital
circulation of 665,000.
When	our	analysts	first	
started	to	do	queries	on	
Amazon	Redshift,	they	
thought	it	was	broken	
because	it	was	working	so	
fast.
• Needed	a	way	to	increase	speed,	performance	and	
flexibility	of	data	analysis	at	a	low	cost
• Using	AWS	enabled	FT	to	run	queries	98%	faster	
than	previously—helping	FT	make	business	
decisions	quickly
• Easier	to	track	and	analyze	trends	
• Reduced	infrastructure	costs	by	80%	over	
traditional	data	center	model
John	O’Donovan
CTO,	Financial	Times
”
“
The	diminishing	value	of	data
Machine
Learning
Amazon
Machine Learning
Hadoop, Spark,
HBase, Hive, Presto,
Mahout, Pig, Zeppelin
Amazon
EMR
Elasticsearch
Amazon
Elasticsearch
Real-time
streaming data
Amazon
Kinesis
Data
Warehouse
Amazon
Redshift
Business
Intelligence
Amazon
QuickSight
Ad-hoc queries
against S3
Amazon
Athena
The	Ability	to	Understand	Your	Customers	And	
Business	Better	Through	Analytics
Time	to	analytics
Ad-hoc queries
against S3
Amazon
Athena
Time	to	analytics
Amazon
S3
Amazon	
Redshift
email
Mobile
Web
Etc.
Multiple	Resources
Reporting	tools
ETL Reporting	tools
Reporting	tools
Amazon
S3
email
Mobile
Web
Etc.
Multiple	Resources
Amazon
Athena
Ad-hoc queries
Time	to	analytics
Amazon	Athena:	SQL	Query	on	S3
• No	loading	of	data
• Serverless
• Support	text,	CSV,	TSV,	JSON,	AVRO
• Columnar	formats	Apache	ORC	&	Parquet	
• Access	via	UI	or	Programmatically	(JDBC	driver)
• Cost	is	per	TB	scanned	– Never	pay	for	idle
Insights to the
field
Personalization
of Content
Process data for global
websites
98% faster
queries
Sports team
analysis
Curing and preventing
diseases
Analysis within
milliseconds
Billions of rows of
behavioral data
Personalization Mobile
analytics
Insights to
government
agencies
Healthcare
analytics
Entertainment
media
Process ~45 billion in-
game events daily
Predictive
analytics
Customers	Making	Better	Decisions
@ziniman
Thank	You!
Boaz	Ziniman	- Technical	Evangelist,	AWS
@AWScloud	for	Global	AWS	News	&	Announcements
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Making Better Decisions Using BigData and Analytics