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Are you looking at distributed queries directly over S3? We did this in ClickHouse and can do instant virtual sharding over large data sets S3. We call it parallel replicas https://clickhouse.com/blog/clickhouse-parallel-replicas
ClickStack/HyperDX is a polished OOTB stack that has an all in one image you can deploy to get started, so you don't need to worry about the ClickHouse side until you need to really scale (which is where ClickHouse really shines).
personally you couldn't pay me to run Spark myself these days (and I used to work for the biggest Hadoop vendor in the mid 2010s doing a lot of Spark!)
But I think whats interesting from the post is looking at SEs adopting data infra into their workflow, as opposed to DEs writing more software.