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How we optimized AWS serverless workloads to manage massive analytics ingestion and speed up Athena queries by 12x.

Published January 15, 20258 min readUpdated Mar 22, 2026

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    How we optimized AWS serverless workloads to manage massive analytics ingestion and speed up Athena queries by 12x.

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