A company is creating near real-time dashboards to visualize time series data. The company ingests data into Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK). A customized data pipeline…

Amazon OpenSearch Service is specifically designed for real-time analytics and full-text search, making it highly optimized for ingesting, indexing, and querying time series data with low latency, and its integrated OpenSearch Dashboards provide immediate visualization capabilities.

Using Amazon Athena to query Avro objects in Amazon S3 involves data scanning over S3, which introduces higher latency compared to querying an indexed, purpose-built analytics service like OpenSearch Service for near real-time dashboards.

Querying data directly from Avro objects in Amazon S3 using Athena is suitable for ad-hoc queries but typically has higher latency for near real-time dashboarding requirements compared to Amazon OpenSearch Service.

While AWS Glue catalogs data for S3, and S3 Select can retrieve specific data from files, this combination is not optimized for serving near real-time dashboards efficiently across potentially large volumes of time series data compared to Amazon OpenSearch Service.