Many of you choose serverless services for your analytics workloads because of its simplicity and elasticity. But many of you running mission-critical queries face a common challenge: ensuring your high-priority workloads run when needed and without interference from other queries in your account.
Amazon Athena is a serverless interactive query service that makes it simple to analyze data using SQL. Capacity Reservations is a feature of Athena that addresses the need to run critical workloads by providing dedicated serverless capacity for the workloads you specify. With Capacity Reservations, you request capacity in the form of Data Processing Units (DPU) and you assign them to your workloads.
In this post, we highlight three new capabilities that make Capacity Reservations more flexible and easier to manage: reduced minimums for fine-grained capacity adjustments, an autoscaling solution for dynamic workloads, and capacity cost and performance controls.
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