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Effective today, all new Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) Provisioned clusters with Express brokers will support Intelligent Rebalancing at no additional cost. In this post we’ll introduce the Intelligent Rebalancing feature and show an example of how it works to improve operation performance.

Today, AWS announced the new Amazon Kinesis Data Streams On-demand Advantage mode, which includes warm throughput capability and an updated pricing structure. With this feature you can enable instant scaling for traffic surges while optimizing costs for consistent streaming workloads. In this post, we explore this new feature, including key use cases, configuration options, pricing considerations, and best practices for optimal performance.

In this post, we show you how Covestro transformed its data architecture by implementing Amazon DataZone and AWS Serverless Data Lake Framework, transitioning from a centralized data lake to a data mesh architecture. The implementation enabled streamlined data access, better data quality, and stronger governance at scale, achieving a 70% reduction in time-to-market for over 1,000 data pipelines.

Today, AWS announced that Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports record sizes up to 10MiB – a tenfold increase from the previous limit. In this post, we explore Amazon Kinesis Data Streams large record support, including key use cases, configuration of maximum record sizes, throttling considerations, and best practices for optimal performance.

At Twilio, we manage a 20 petabyte-scale Amazon S3 data lake that serves the analytics needs of over 1,500 users, processing 2.5 million queries monthly and scanning an average of 85 PB of data. To meet our growing demands for scalability, emerging technology support, and data mesh architecture adoption, we built Odin, a multi-engine query platform that provides an abstraction layer built on top of Presto Gateway. In this post, we discuss how we designed and built Odin, combining Amazon Athena with open-source Presto to create a flexible, scalable data querying solution.

At Vanguard, we faced significant challenges with our legacy mainframe system that limited our ability to deliver modern, personalized customer experiences. Our centralized database architecture created performance bottlenecks and made it difficult to scale services independently for our millions of personal and institutional investors. In this post, we show you how we modernized our data architecture using Amazon Redshift as our Operational Read-only Data Store (ORDS).

This post describes how organizations can enhance their existing search capabilities with vector embeddings using Amazon OpenSearch Service. We discuss why traditional keyword search falls short of modern user expectations, how vector search enables more intelligent and contextual results, and the measurable business impact achieved by organizations like Amazon Prime Video, Juicebox, and Amazon Music.

With the Amazon EMR 7.10 runtime, Amazon EMR has introduced EMR S3A, an improved implementation of the open source S3A file system connector. In this post, we showcase the enhanced read and write performance advantages of using Amazon EMR 7.10.0 runtime for Apache Spark with EMR S3A as compared to EMRFS and the open source S3A file system connector.

Trellix, a global leader in cybersecurity solutions, emerged in 2022 from the merger of McAfee Enterprise and FireEye. To address exponential log growth across their multi-tenant, multi-Region infrastructure, Trellix used Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion, and Amazon S3 to modernize their log infrastructure. In this post, we share how, by adopting these AWS solutions, Trellix enhanced their system’s performance, availability, and scalability while reducing operational overhead.

Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion is a powerful data ingestion pipeline that AWS customers use for many different purposes, such as observability, analytics, and zero-ETL search. Many customers today push logs, traces, and metrics from their applications to OpenSearch Ingestion to store and analyze this data. Today, we are happy to announce that OpenSearch Ingestion pipelines now […]