AWS Architecture Monthly

Helping our customers reduce total cost of ownership while allowing them to innovate quickly to meet market demand is critical. Unfettered access to all data by developers, business users, data scientists, and business partners is integral to rapid innovation. AWS enables this by freeing up data and reducing dependencies on legacy, on-premises, and mainframe applications. We are moving data off these applications using a Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) pattern to operational data stores (ODS) built using purpose-built databases. We help our customers efficiently build data assets and analytics using data lake/lakehouse architecture patterns that use the data mesh methodology. In addition, we enable access to real-time operations and customer data by using Internet of Things (IoT)-based connected aircraft, airports, hotels, and restaurant architectures. By democratizing this data, we enable our customers to improve and build customer-/employee-facing applications.

COVID-19 has been devastating to the Travel and Hospitality industry, but the industry is resilient. It has quickly responded to drastic reduction in demand, rapidly changing with uncertain demand and health restrictions. It has started to recover by adjusting to a new operating model and consumer behavior. Customers now have new services like home delivery, self-service, contactless, and touchless applications and the industry continues to make steady progress towards other innovations. Our customers also are moving away from data center and CAPEX-centric IT spending that has historically restricted their ability to scale down to customer demand, and they have adopted cloud and OPEX models that will allow them to be completely elastic to meet current and future customer demand. We will continue to work with our customers and help them innovate on AWS to improve operational efficiencies and enhance the customer experience.