← This weekCase studyData engineering & the warehouse/lakehouseAmazonEpic GamesEpic Games collaborated with AWS to enhance their Amazon OpenSearch Service for Fortnite analytics by optimizing instances, shards, and index mappings, as well as upgrading engine and Graviton versions. These efforts aimed to improve query latency and throughput while cutting costs.
MyDataWork POV — Epic Games' venture into fine-tuning Amazon OpenSearch Service for Fortnite analytics raises more questions than it answers. The claim of improved query latency and throughput sounds promising, but the post is notably silent on the long-term sustainability of these optimizations. Without transparency on how these changes impact broader system performance or the trade-offs involved, this exercise risks being just another superficial tweak rather than a substantial improvement.
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