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Multi-cloud lakehouse architecture on AWS for Agentic AI, Part 1: Architecture and best practices

Multi-cloud lakehouse architecture on AWS for Agentic AI, Part 1: Architecture and best practices

This post focuses on explaining the architecture approach to build the open lakehouse architecture on AWS, unifying the metadata catalog across providers for the AI agents to access. In addition, it highlights the architecture trade-offs and best practices.

Cut costs and simplify operations with writable warm storage in Amazon OpenSearch Service

In this post, I show you how writable warm storage removes the costly migration cycle. You can reduce your infrastructure costs by up to 48 percent and update historical data in seconds instead of hours. I walk through a real-world cost comparison and performance benchmarks, and help you decide when to use writable warm versus UltraWarm.

Accelerating log analytics at scale with AWS Glue and Apache Iceberg materialized views

Accelerating log analytics at scale with AWS Glue and Apache Iceberg materialized views

In this post, you learn how to build an application log pipeline for production use with Amazon CloudWatch Logs, AWS Lambda, Amazon Data Firehose, AWS Glue, and Apache Iceberg materialized tables. You then use materialized views to accelerate query performance. This solution helps you achieve faster query response times on large-scale log data without requiring you to manage continuous data lake refresh.

Serverless analytics pipelines using the Apache Spark engine in Amazon Athena

Serverless analytics pipelines using the Apache Spark engine in Amazon Athena

This post shows how developers, data engineers, and analysts can connect to a secure Spark Connect endpoint in Athena with Apache Spark. You can use your preferred tools, such as Jupyter notebooks, VS Code, or dbt with Apache Airflow, without managing cluster lifecycle or scaling.

Run log analytics for a fraction of the cost with the new engine for Amazon OpenSearch Service

We’re introducing a purpose-built log analytics engine for Amazon OpenSearch Service. This new engine delivers up to 4x price performance, 2x faster data ingestion, up to 2x faster analytical queries, and up to 70 percent lower storage costs. You get all of this without sacrificing search capabilities on the same data. In this post, you learn how to take advantage of these benefits, see how to get started, and review benchmark results at billion-document scale.

Why tombola chose Graviton-powered RG instances for Amazon Redshift

In this post, you learn how tombola followed a strict engineering principle: no changes to production without evidence. That meant a head-to-head comparison of RA3 versus RG on their actual workload. You also see benchmark results on Amazon S3 Tables and the migration from RA3 to RG instances.

Modernize Amazon Redshift: RA3 to RG Migration best practices

In this post, you learn how to migrate Amazon Redshift RA3 clusters to Graviton-based RG instances. We compare the Elastic Resize, Classic Resize, and Snapshot/Restore migration strategies, with key considerations and best practices to support a smooth migration. We also provide mapping guidance from RA3 to RG to help you right-size your cluster.

Access Amazon S3 data files directly using AWS Lake Formation permissions

In this post, we demonstrate reading from and writing to Lake Formation-managed S3 locations using Apache Spark jobs from EMR. Lake Formation credential vending for S3 location access is available in EMR release label 7.13 and later, Boto3 1.42.29 and later, AWS Java SDK 2.41.32 and later, and AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) version 2.33.1 and later.