Accelerating log analytics at scale with AWS Glue and Apache Iceberg materialized views

Accelerating log analytics at scale with AWS Glue and Apache Iceberg materialized views

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.