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Near real-time baggage operational insights for airlines using Amazon Kinesis Data Streams

This post explores a framework developed by IBM to modernize baggage analytics using AWS managed services like Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, DynamoDB Streams, and other AWS services within a serverless architecture. The solution enables near real-time baggage operational insights for airlines, delivering cost savings, enhanced scalability, and improved performance while providing better security and operational efficiency to meet evolving airline needs.

How Stifel built a modern data platform using AWS Glue and an event-driven domain architecture

In this post, we show you how Stifel implemented a modern data platform using AWS services and open data standards, building an event-driven architecture for domain data products while centralizing the metadata to facilitate discovery and sharing of data products.

Kaltura reduces observability operational costs by 60% with Amazon OpenSearch Service

In this post, we share how Kaltura transformed its observability strategy and technological stack by migrating from a software as a service (SaaS) logging solution to Amazon OpenSearch Service—achieving higher log retention, a 60% reduction in cost, and a centralized platform that empowers multiple teams with real-time insights.

Introducing GenAI-powered business description recommendations for custom assets in Amazon SageMaker Catalog

Amazon SageMaker Catalog now supports generative AI-powered recommendations for business descriptions, including table summaries, use cases, and column-level descriptions for custom structured assets registered programmatically. In this post, we demonstrate how to generate AI recommendations for business descriptions for custom structured assets in SageMaker Catalog.

Amazon Redshift Python user-defined functions will reach end of support after June 30, 2026

The Amazon Redshift integration with AWS Lambda provides the capability to create Amazon Redshift Lambda user-defined functions (UDFs). Because Lambda UDFs provide these significant advantages in integration, flexibility, scalability, and security, we will be ending support for Python UDFs in Amazon Redshift. In this post, we walk you through how to migrate your existing Python UDFs to Lambda UDFs, set up monitoring and cost evaluations, and review key considerations for a smooth transition.

Building serverless event streaming applications with Amazon MSK and AWS Lambda

In this post, we describe how you can simplify your event-driven application architecture using AWS Lambda with Amazon MSK. We demonstrate how to configure Lambda as a consumer for Kafka topics, including a cross-account setup and how to optimize price and performance for these applications.

Implement secure hybrid and multicloud log ingestion with Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion

In this post, we demonstrate how to configure Fluent Bit, a fast and flexible log processor and router supported by various operating systems, to securely send logs from any environment to OpenSearch Ingestion using IAM Roles Anywhere.