Accelerating log analytics at scale with AWS Glue and Apache Iceberg materialized views
Original URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/accelerating-log-analytics-at-scale-with-aws-glue-and-apache-iceberg-materialized-views/
Article Written: July 2, 2026
Added: July 8, 2026
Type: product
Summary
This article discusses the challenges of managing high-volume application logs and how to overcome them using AWS Glue and Apache Iceberg materialized views. It provides a detailed solution for building an application log pipeline that enhances query performance by utilizing pre-computed query results. The architecture leverages several AWS services, including Amazon CloudWatch Logs, AWS Lambda, and Amazon Data Firehose, to create a scalable and efficient data pipeline. The article also outlines deployment steps and best practices for maintaining fast analytics performance on large-scale log data.
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this is good: "Glue job refreshes the materialized view by recomputing aggregations from the base table on a configurable interval" The maintenance of the refresh of the materialise view is important.