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Serverless RPUs vs Provisioned RA3 is still not an automatic call. July 2026 refresh: base 4 to 1024 RPUs, Max RPU-hours, AI-driven scaling, and when RI wins.
Palaniappan PAmazon OpenSearch Service powers search, log analytics, and time-series workloads on AWS. This post covers the architecture patterns and cost levers that matter most in production.
Palaniappan PKinesis Data Streams combined with Lambda and DynamoDB is the simplest path to a real-time data pipeline on AWS. This post covers the architecture, code patterns, and operational guidance.
Palaniappan PEMR Serverless vs EC2 vs EKS for Spark. July 2026 refresh: Spot limits, cold start, Iceberg on all three, and a decision matrix for intermittent vs 24/7 jobs.
Palaniappan PGlue 5.1 (Spark 3.5.6, Iceberg 1.10.0) for lakehouse ETL. July 2026 refresh covers Iceberg v2 vs v3, Lake Formation writes, compaction, and Athena compatibility.
Palaniappan PGlue does EL; dbt does T. July 2026 refresh covers Glue 5.1 DPU economics, dbt-athena/Redshift, and the combined stack most teams converge on.
Palaniappan PAthena still bills ~$5/TB scanned (or Capacity Reservations by DPU). July 2026 refresh covering partitions, Parquet/Iceberg, workgroups, and when provisioned capacity wins.
Palaniappan PEmbedding QuickSight dashboards in your SaaS product gives every customer analytics without building a BI layer from scratch. Here is the complete implementation guide: embedding types, authentication, row-level security, and cost.
Palaniappan PManaged Flink for stateful streaming. July 2026 refresh: KDA name EOL, KPU + orchestration KPU, per-second billing, Flink vs Lambda decision matrix.
Palaniappan PGlue ETL + Athena SQL without servers, still the default lake path. July 2026: Glue 5.x jobs, Parquet partitions, ~$0.44/DPU-hour + $5/TB scan math, pipeline checklist.
Palaniappan PRDS, Aurora, and self-managed Postgres each have a cost breakeven point. This guide covers total cost of ownership, connection pooling with PgBouncer, indexing strategies, and the edge cases that turn Postgres into a billing surprise.
Palaniappan PAtlas vs EC2 vs DocumentDB on AWS: TCO flips with DBA time, not $/vCPU. July 2026: index/cache pressure, hot shards, DocumentDB API-compat caveat.
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