Accelerating Real-Time Analytics
Case Study
How Factual Minds Helped TargetBay Unlock Fast, Cross-Tenant Insights with Amazon QuickSight SPICE
Challenges
Slow, Costly Ad-Hoc Reporting
Running direct SQL queries against large Aurora tables caused:
- Multi-minute response times
- Production database CPU spikes
- Risk to transactional workloads
- Fragmented Data Architecture Customer and event data was distributed across multiple Aurora clusters, preventing unified reporting or cross-region analysis
- Delayed Error Visibility Campaign or batch job failures were only discovered during next-day reporting, delaying response and resolution.
Solution Provided by Factual Minds
Factual Minds implemented Amazon QuickSight with SPICE to deliver high-speed dashboards, cross-cluster insights, and real-time alerts—all while offloading compute from Aurora. SPICE-Backed Data Ingestion
- Configured QuickSight to ingest from each Aurora MySQL cluster.
- Scheduled incremental refreshes every 5–15 minutes.
- Stored key tables in SPICE’s in-memory engine for rapid access.
Cross-Database Joins Without Aurora Load
- Joined tenant, batch, and campaign tables from multiple SPICE sources.
- Created unified dashboards spanning tenants and regions, previously impossible via SQL.
Live Dashboards & AlertingBuilt real-time dashboards for:
- Campaign engagement (CTR, open rate, bounce rate)
- Batch processing success/failure
- Top-performing tenants
Configured threshold-based alerts and anomaly detection via QuickSight to notify teams of performance issues instantly.
Empowered Self-Service Analytics
Enabled marketing, support, and sales teams to:
- Build ad-hoc visuals (funnels, heat maps, time series)
- Answer business questions without engineering involvement
- Answer business questions without engineering involvement
Results & Benefits
| Metric or Capability | Before | After with QuickSight SPICE |
|---|---|---|
| Query Performance | 2–5 min per dashboard | < 1 sec interactive dashboard refresh |
| Database Impact | High Aurora CPU usage | Zero impact—SPICE handles all queries |
| Cross-Tenant Analysis | Not supported | Multi-cluster joins in SPICE |
| Error Response Time | Delayed by hours | Immediate alerts via QuickSight |
| Team Autonomy | Engineering bottleneck | Business users build their own reports |
AWS Services Used
- Amazon QuickSight with SPICE – Fast, in-memory analytics with native alerting
- Amazon Aurora MySQL – Source-of-truth for high-volume campaign data
- Amazon CloudWatch – Monitoring of ingestion jobs, metrics, and health checks
- AWS IAM – Fine-grained, role-based access to data sources and dashboards
Why Choose Factual Minds?
- As an AWS Premier Consulting Partner, Factual Minds brings deep expertise in data lake architecture, operational dashboards, and analytics cost optimization. By implementing a real-time analytics pipeline with QuickSight SPICE, we helped TargetBay eliminate reporting lag, reduce Aurora overhead, and put insights directly into the hands of business users.
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Looking to enhance your development team’s efficiency with Amazon Q? Contact Factual Minds today for expert guidance and seamless implementation!
Client Overview
TargetBay is a SaaS marketing automation provider whose BayEngage platform powers campaign delivery for over 4,500 e-commerce merchants. The platform captures billions of campaign events—opens, clicks, bounces, and orders—within Amazon Aurora MySQL. Internal teams rely on real-time insights to monitor performance, troubleshoot issues, and drive business decisions across global operations.
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