Imply has launched Imply Polaris, a database-as-a-service (DBaaS) designed for Apache Druid, on Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region, specifically targeting developers in India seeking to create real-time analytics applications. This service enables organizations to leverage Druid's capabilities in providing interactive data experiences from streaming data, as exemplified by Paytm's use of Druid for a large-scale analytics application that resulted in significant infrastructure cost savings. Imply Polaris offers a fully managed cloud service that simplifies the development of analytics applications by handling infrastructure concerns, ensuring data sovereignty, and allowing easy integration with data streams from platforms like Confluent Cloud, Apache Kafka, and Amazon Kinesis. It supports automated tuning and configuration, expert-guided data modeling, and optimized data layouts, with features like curated dashboards for performance monitoring and dynamic visualization capabilities. The service is available across multiple AWS regions, ensuring compliance with data regulations, and streamlines data transfer to optimize network costs and performance while providing developers with tools to embed visualizations into applications.