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The blog post discusses optimizing a serverless data pipeline on AWS from data ingestion to insights. It showcases transforming DynamoDB data, loading it into an S3 data lake, combining datasets in QuickSight for insights, and speeding up the overall data pipeline. Key components discussed include: AWS Glue for ETL jobs to extract, transform and load data into the S3 data lake; AWS Glue Crawlers to catalog data lake schemas; Amazon Athena for SQL access to the S3 data; and Amazon QuickSight for analysis and insights. The post explores ways to optimize AWS Glue performance and costs for efficient data processing. It also discusses using QuickSight’s SPICE in-memory engine and automating dataset refreshes to enable real-time insights. Finally, it showcases triggering QuickSight ingestions using AWS Step Functions when AWS Glue ETL jobs complete to fully automate the pipeline from data ingestion to consumption. An example uses Helsinki public transport data to demonstrate the concepts.