AWS Glue

Secure Multi-Source Reporting Trade-offs | SAA-C03

24 December 2025·723 words·4 mins

Architecture Drills Cloud Provider (AWS) SAA FinOps Decision Matrix Amazon QuickSight AWS Glue Amazon Athena

A mid-sized analytics firm needs a secure reporting solution that consolidates data from S3 and a managed PostgreSQL database, while enforcing fine-grained access controls. We analyze multiple AWS service options to find the best trade-off.

S3 Log Analytics Trade-offs | SAA-C03

10 December 2025·1335 words·7 mins

Architecture Drills AWS SAA-C03 FinOps Decision Matrix Amazon Athena S3 Serverless Analytics Amazon Redshift AWS Glue

A fintech startup needs to query JSON logs in S3 with minimal operational overhead and no infrastructure changes. This drill explores why serverless query engines beat traditional data warehouses for ad-hoc analytics workloads.

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