AWS Big Data Blog
Category: Customer Solutions
How a team at Epic Games tuned Amazon OpenSearch Service for Fortnite analytics
Learn how a team at Epic Games tuned their Amazon OpenSearch Service cluster for Fortnite analytics. This post details how Epic Games partnered with AWS to right-size instances, rebalance shards, optimize index mappings, and upgrade engine and Graviton versions, improving query latency and throughput while reducing costs.
Scaling fine-grained access control for enterprise lakehouse using SageMaker Unified Studio and AWS Lake Formation
As enterprise lakehouses grow to thousands of tables across business domains and regions, fine-grained access control becomes a governance bottleneck. This post shows how to combine AWS IAM Identity Center, AWS Lake Formation tag-based access control, and trusted identity propagation in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio for automated, auditable, least-privilege access.
Transforming search at Delivery Hero: A migration journey to OpenSearch Service with radial search
In this post, we walk through how Delivery Hero migrated their semantic search infrastructure to Amazon OpenSearch Service, why they chose radial search over traditional k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) search, and the optimizations that made the system fast, cost-effective, and flexible for experimentation.
How Alight Solutions achieved 55% cost savings with Amazon OpenSearch Service
In this post, we share how Alight Solutions migrated from self-managed Elasticsearch to Amazon OpenSearch Service. The migration achieved a 55% cost reduction, alleviated approximately 2,000 hours per year of operational overhead, and gave Alight access to advanced observability features they could not prioritize before.
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.
How Razorpay Built Real-Time Anomaly Detection with Amazon MSK
In this post, we explore Razorpay’s anomaly detection and alerting platform (ADA) architecture using Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) and other AWS services. According to Razorpay the system detects transaction anomalies in under 30 seconds, supports thousands of merchant-level alerts, and reduced monitoring costs by approximately 80 percent. The platform maintains 99.99 percent uptime for over 500 million transactions per month.
How BigBasket uses the Iceberg based lakehouse architecture on AWS to power lightning-fast grocery delivery across India
In this post, we demonstrate how BigBasket implemented the lakehouse architecture on AWS, including their architecture decisions, implementation approach, and the measurable business results you can expect from a similar modernization. Whether you’re facing scalability challenges or planning your own lakehouse implementation, this blueprint provides actionable insights you can adapt for your organization.
Deploy modern data platforms in minutes with MDAA
In this post, we explore how MDAA transforms data architecture development from months of manual coding to production-ready deployment through configuration-driven infrastructure and embedded governance, examine a real customer transformation, and provide a clear implementation pathway for your own data modernization journey.
Automating IT support with AI: How Nexthink uses OpenSearch Service to power self-service issue resolution
In this post, we explore how Nexthink combined Amazon OpenSearch Service vector search, Amazon Bedrock, and infrastructure as code to power the Spark agent’s retrieval layer.
How Buildkite Operates Test Analytics at Massive Scale with Amazon MSK and Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink
In this post, we explore how Buildkite uses Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) and Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink to power Test Engine’s streaming-first analytics architecture at scale.









