Category: Serverless

In this post, you learn how Amazon Redshift Serverless Reservations can help you lower your data warehouse costs. We explore ways to determine the optimal number of RPUs to reserve, review example scenarios, and discuss important considerations when purchasing these reservations.

Today, AWS announced Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) Serverless. This is a new deployment option for MWAA that eliminates the operational overhead of managing Apache Airflow environments while optimizing costs through serverless scaling. In this post, we demonstrate how to use MWAA Serverless to build and deploy scalable workflow automation solutions.

In this post, we explore commonly used Amazon CloudWatch metrics and alarms for OpenSearch Serverless, walking through the process of selecting relevant metrics, setting appropriate thresholds, and configuring alerts. This guide will provide you with a comprehensive monitoring strategy that complements the serverless nature of your OpenSearch deployment while maintaining full operational visibility.

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Amazon Redshift Serverless now supports 4 RPU configurations, helping you get started with a lower base capacity that runs scalable analytics workloads beginning at $1.50 per hour. In this post, we examine how this new sizing option makes Redshift Serverless accessible to smaller organizations while providing enterprises with cost-effective environments for development, testing, and variable workloads.

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.

In this blog post we shall cover how understanding real-time payout performance, identifying customer behavior patterns across regions, and optimizing internal operations required more than traditional business intelligence and analytics tools. And how since implementing Amazon Redshift and Zero-ETL, MassPay has seen 90% reduction in data availability latency, payments data available for analytics 1.5x faster, leading to 45% reduction in time-to-insight and 37% fewer support tickets related to transaction visibility and payment inquiries.

In this post, we share how AppsFlyer successfully migrated their massive data infrastructure from self-managed Hadoop clusters to Amazon EMR Serverless, detailing their best practices, challenges to overcome, and lessons learned that can help guide other organizations in similar transformations.

Today, we’re launching a new visual interface for OpenSearch Ingestion that makes it simple to create and manage your data pipelines from the AWS Management Console. With this new feature, you can build pipelines in minutes without writing complex configurations manually. In this post, we walk through how these new features work and how you can use them to accelerate your data ingestion projects.

This post discusses a decoupled approach of building a serverless data lakehouse using AWS Cloud-centered services, including Amazon EMR Serverless, Amazon Athena, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Apache DolphinScheduler (an open source data job scheduler) as well as PingCAP TiDB, a third-party data warehouse product that can be deployed either on premises or on the cloud or through a software as a service (SaaS).