AWS Data Lab Customers

The Nasdaq Composite is a stock market index of the common stocks and similar securities listed on the Nasdaq stock market. Tasked with redesigning the architecture of its data warehouse to handle rapidly changing service level demands from customers, Nasdaq teamed up with the AWS Data Lab to explore and test various options for improving scalability and ultimately re-architecting their data warehouse. AWS Data Lab helped the Nasdaq team decide to separate storage from compute by using Amazon Redshift as a compute engine on top of their data lake. Deployment of this new architecture to production created "infinite" capacity for additional data without manual intervention, increased scalability and parallelism, and resulted in a 75% reduction in Reserved Instance costs.

"I wish that we hadn’t waited so late in the project to take advantage of [the AWS Data Lab]. We came out of that week at AWS Data Lab with answers and a clear path to how we were going to solve the problems that we were facing.” Robert Hunt, VP Software Engineering, Nasdaq.

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CrescoNet is an advanced cellular utility solutions company that develops solutions for smart metering service providers that operate in the electricity industries in Australia and New Zealand. CrescoNet is the technology development arm of the smart metering and energy data business, The Intellihub Group. They use big data analytics capabilities on AWS to expand their ability to scale and innovate smart metering technologies. Their team of system engineers, solutions architects, and data scientists worked with the AWS Data Lab to rapidly design, test, and build a serverless data lake that allows them to ingest, process, and query data from more than 500,000 electricity meters at scale.

"Nothing beats experience and actually doing [the work] for yourself. The AWS Data Lab provided the hands-on experience so that we could prove out that the technologies we'd thought about [...] were actually going to deliver the value that we needed." Matt Simmerson, Senior Solutions Architect, CrescoNet.

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LiUNA – the Laborers’ International Union of North America – is an American and Canadian labor union that manages health and pension funds for over 300 unions. After seeing a surge in demand for fund management services, LiUNA worked with the AWS Data Lab to build an event-driven, serverless data pipeline that modernizes their data ingestion from a manual and time-intensive process to one that automatically scales to accommodate growth. The solution gives LiUNA the flexibility to onboard new health and pension funds quickly and establishes a foundation for future analytics use cases.

"We needed a way to scale an existing process quickly but didn't want to necessarily invest a lot of financial resources to make it happen. Working with the AWS Data Lab allowed our team to get the experience and training they needed, at no cost to LiUNA, to develop a more efficient process that will scale as we grow." Matthew Richard, Chief Information Officer, LiUNA.

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B3 S.A - Brasil, Bolsa, Balcão - is one of the world’s largest financial market infrastructure companies, providing trading services in an exchange and over the counter (OTC) environment. In order to provide their financial clients with near real-time risk scores, B3 needed to modernize their batch data processing routines into near real-time analytics. During the Build Lab, B3 built a serverless data architecture consisting of near real-time data pipelines that lets them process risk scores for over 100 million requests within a matter of seconds.

"By working with our Data Lab Architect, we were able to significantly speed up the stages of: understanding the problem, defining a serverless architecture, and developing the solution. All of this with the support and performance of AWS experts, which allowed the completion of our MVP in a short time, fully tested, and quickly available to launch to a production environment.” Alexandre Barbosa, IT Managing Director – OTC and Data Analytics, B3.

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PayU Finance is a FinTech organization with products for Transactional Credit and Personal Loans. They use AWS to power their suite of products for digital lending. PayU worked with the AWS Data Lab to reinvent the foundation of their data platform and in turn, empower stakeholders across the organization with the data they need to make decisions and improve the customer experience. In a Build Lab, PayU Finance designed and built a hub and spoke data lake architecture that meets industry, security, and compliance requirements. PayU Finance deployed their solution to production within two weeks of the lab and have continued building on the architecture over time, adding features such as enterprise metadata management and central orchestration.

“We started this project with the desire to design and develop a best-in-class modern data platform that could operate at scale for several years and provide us with the level of governance and auditing we require. The architecture that we co-created with AWS Data Lab was not only a perfect fit, but it also gave us a foundation to continue building on in the future [...] And today, we have reached a stage where we have a best-in-class modern data platform ready and live in production." Praveen Singh, Director of Data Engineering, PayU Finance.

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KRS.io is a provider of cutting-edge solutions to the convenience and petroleum industry. KRS embarked on a two year plan to fully migrate their data center to AWS and collaborated with the AWS Data Lab to create a secure, fully encrypted data lake solution that ingests and stores data from various source systems in their data center and powers custom visuals and downstream business reports using Amazon QuickSight. Building upon the best practices the KRS team learned by participating in a Build Lab, the data platform prototype they developed, and the ease of embedding QuickSight dashboards into their application and implementing Natural Language Query (NLQ) using Quicksight Q, KRS shaved time off of their production timeline.

“In business, speed matters. Working with AWS Data Lab accelerated our timeframe from proof-of-concept to deployment. I had zero-tolerance for risk and the Data Lab allowed my team to meet my high bar for security and reliability.” Brian McManus, CTO, KRS.io.

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Fluent Commerce, headquartered in Australia, is a leading global provider of a SaaS distributed order management system, Fluent Order Management. Fluent supports global brands like L’Oreal and Ted Baker London with inventory availability management and fulfillment optimization. These clients need to handle complex inventory availability at scale. This includes huge peaks at holiday seasons, and the need to show customers accurate inventory availability across several offerings so they can choose the most convenient. To meet this need, Fluent relies on AWS to be able to cost-effectively deliver at scale. Fluent has also partnered with the AWS Data Lab to redesign their data pipelines for better scalability and performance.

“The number one challenge that our retailers face is inventory availability management. With the Data Lab, we were able to get right into testing a hypothesis that we had around how we could make a step change in the processing efficiency of inventory. We were able to do that in one week. Without the combination of experience, subject matter expertise, and technical know-how that the Data Lab provided, we would have really struggled to get anywhere near where we’re at now in that sort of timeframe.” Jamie Cairns, Chief Strategy Officer, Fluent Commerce.

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Cenovus Energy is a Canadian-based integrated energy company. Cenovus built a working prototype of a data lake that ingests a variety of datasets from multiple vendors through a streamlined process and an event-driven data pipeline to transform ingested datasets into a common data model. The Cenovus team left their Build Lab with a custom-fit, cloud-based solution that will allow production engineers and other analysts to derive insights into oil well performance faster without having to worry about storage capacity. Cenovus can ingest, process, and analyze billions of rows of Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) data, enabling the business to immediately access and generate actionable insights into oil well performance and optimize costs. 

“The implementation of our Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) data pipeline was accelerated by months using the AWS Data Lab. This shortened our learning curve and enabled access to the data for various high priority use cases.” Don Munroe, Chief Data Officer, Cenovus Energy Inc.

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Carbyne is a global leader in mission-critical contact center technologies. Carbyne began working with the AWS Data Lab in a Design Lab to explore options for building a low-latency, multi-tenant, analytical system that would enable them to generate meaningful insights for call center owners who manage 911 calls, such as call duration ranges and peak time-of-day for callers. These data points help Carbyne customers measure the effectiveness of their emergency response systems and then provision staff and resources accordingly. Once the team was ready to start building, they returned for a Build Lab to develop a prototype solution focused on extracting data from their Amazon Aurora data stores, building an ETL process to prepare their data for analytical consumption, and then developing a dashboard with Amazon QuickSight that visualizes metrics around customer call statistics. Carbyne also implemented anonymous embedding of their QuickSight dashboards into their application to deliver those visualizations to customers in a familiar web UI. This prototype lays the foundation for Carbyne to apply this architecture to their broader data pipeline environment and accelerate their launch to production post-lab.

“This experience with the AWS Data Lab is what it means to be in true partnership. Data Lab's support and efforts are much appreciated as we push innovative solutions to the Public Safety Industry. I can say confidently that this Build Lab and Data Lab's support will reduce our time to production by weeks, if not months." Alex Dizengof, Founder & CTO, Carbyne, Inc.

VTEX is an enterprise digital commerce platform where global brands and retailers run their world of commerce. AWS Data Lab helped VTEX modernize its data platform by designing and building a data lake house architecture that supports advanced analytics and focuses on continuous data ingestion and processing. The Build Lab helped VTEX accelerate its journey to production by two months, giving VTEX directors enhanced visibility into key commercial performance indicators like gross merchandise volume (GMV) in an autonomous, continuous, and reliable way.

“AWS Data Lab was crucial to our project, empowering our team to not only build a prototype in a matter of days but to bring a solution to production that we’re confident is built following industry and analytics best practices.” Igor Tavares, Principal Engineer, VTEX.

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Hitachi Construction Machinery Co. is a Japanese construction equipment company that manufactures a wide range of hydraulic excavators. With the help of the AWS Data Lab, Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd in Europe (HCME) built a central data hub for their business datasets to streamline data integration and analysis capabilities. The HCME team left their Build Lab with a functioning prototype for centralizing data and visualizing operational insights as well as a roadmap for taking the solution to production, which allowed them to launch to production in only a few weeks post-lab.

"Collaborating with the AWS Data Lab has complimented our digitization strategy, which aligns with our long-term vision. We see huge potential to the data we have and with the help of AWS, we think we can build value creating solutions for our customers and dealers network.” Ryo Kurihara, Manager, Solution Linkage Department, Hitachi Construction Machinery Europe.

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HST Pathways is an innovative software technology company enabling healthcare providers to create better patient outcomes through a suite of digital solutions for practice management, electronic charting, and case coordination. HST Pathways wanted a solution that could simplify data aggregation and storage while giving them the flexibility and performance needed to run analytics on large, multi-tenant data sets. The Build Lab created an environment where HST Pathways could design and build a prototype of a near real-time data warehouse, a centralized data lake, and a scalable data streaming service in only four days.

“Working with the AWS Data Lab was intensive and productive. AWS Data Lab Architects helped us work backward from our business needs and try different potential options for our data warehouse project. After the four day Build Lab, we were confident that AWS DMS and Amazon Redshift are the best technologies for our needs, and we were able to quickly launch to production within weeks.” Xiaodong Chen, Manager of Software Engineering, HST Pathways.

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Availity is one of the nation’s largest health information networks and facilitates billions of clinical, administrative, and financial transactions annually. During the four-day Build Lab with AWS Data Lab, Availity built an end-to-end data pipeline to process incoming data from its network of healthcare partners. The team also de-coupled their index and search data in near-real time to create APIs that help customers find relevant patient information quickly, while respecting appropriate data governance requirements. Only three months post-lab, Availity was able to move this solution to production and now has an implementation pattern it can replicate for future data needs.

“We left with a functioning prototype that was essential to our business, but the real value of the Data Lab was a team-building effort.” Michael Privat, VP of Digital and Cloud Migration, Availity.

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Allen Institute focuses on accelerating foundational research, developing standards and models, and cultivating new ideas to make a broad, transformational impact on science. One of its research institutes, the Allen Institute for Brain Science, collaborated with the AWS Data Lab to rapidly accelerate its journey into data platform modernization. As part of its mission to share massive amounts of data with the public to accelerate advancement in neuroscience, Allen Institute needed to build a solution that could provide researchers around the world with the ability to work with extremely wide datasets - more than 50,000 columns - at scale and with very low latency. In only four days, the Allen Institute team built a working prototype of an end-to-end feature matrix ingestion pipeline using transient Amazon EMR clusters and Amazon DynamoDB that dynamically ingests and transforms its wide datasets into consumable, interactive datasets for researchers. The team left the AWS Data Lab with an accelerated plan to bring this solution to production, furthering its commitment to support researchers in the quest for improved health outcomes. 

Sportradar is a global provider of sports data intelligence, serving leagues, news media, consumer platforms, and sports betting operators with deep insights and a suite of strategic solutions to help grow their businesses. It engaged the AWS Data Lab for guidance on developing a modernized, low latency data analytics pipeline and workflow to power real-time statistical models, feature extraction, and inference using machine learning models and real-time dashboards. The Sportradar team left the AWS Data Lab with a clear path forward for real-time sportsbook risk management and real-time fraud detection, as well as a scalable process for deploying and managing additional data pipelines on a global level. It used the AWS Data Lab to help expand the capabilities of its existing cloud-native big data and analytics platform for real-time analytics workloads.

“Using the elasticity and value-added services from AWS, we have managed to analyze a high volume of transactions to produce deep real-time analytics. This gives our traders a crucial edge.” Ben Burdsall, CTO, Sportradar.

Jungle Scout is an all-in-one platform for finding, launching, and selling Amazon products. With the support of the AWS Data Lab, Jungle Scout built the foundation of a data lake in only four days, including a repeatable pattern for building data pipelines that hydrate the data lake from a variety of data systems. By using Amazon S3 as the core of the data lake, Jungle Scout is able to reduce its storage footprint across other databases and remove data silos, ultimately helping the team reduce cost and increase productivity. The solution also makes it simpler to manage multiple versions of product metadata changes, giving Jungle Scout’s data scientists and engineers the flexibility to view data changes several times per day and troubleshoot data faster.

“By leveraging the AWS Data Lab, we were able to launch our analytics solution to production only three months after joining the lab and with only two engineers working full-time on the project. This has resulted in a major shift in how engineers at Jungle Scout build data processing pipelines.” Alex Handley, Principal Architect, Jungle Scout.

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Freeman is a leader in brand experience. The Freeman team was tasked with creating a streamlined approach for handling, validating, and joining data that would power visualizations in its custom dashboard service. Freeman partnered with the AWS Data Lab to accelerate the architectural design and prototype build of this solution. In only four days, the Freeman team built a data pipeline prototype for both streaming and batch datasets leveraging Amazon Kinesis and AWS Glue workflows to ingest, curate, and prepare the data. Using Amazon Athena, Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics, and Amazon OpenSearch Service to query the various curated datasets and Amazon QuickSight and Kibana to visualize the results in easy to consume dashboards, the Freeman team left the AWS Data Lab with a clear path forward for empowering end users to gain valuable insights into its data.

"We were able to leverage our existing knowledge and infrastructure within AWS by expanding into new services and features that we hadn't explored before. With the help of the AWS solutions architects that worked side-by-side with us, we were able to greatly accelerate the delivery of our system and set up a foundation that we can build on down the road.” Casey McMullen, Director of Digital Solution Development, Freeman.

TownSq connects neighbors, board members, and management teams to easy, proven, collaborative tools designed to enhance the community living experience. TownSq needed to upgrade its data and analytics capabilities due to exponential client growth. It decided to build a data lake to enable greater insights about business performance, client benchmarking, engagement levels, and success rates on new products and tools. TownSq also wanted to deploy algorithms to highlight unmet client needs, automate key processes, and provide recommendations to mitigate any emerging or detected risks. In four days, the TownSq team achieved its goal of building a functioning data lake and an extract, transform, load (ETL) pipeline capable of processing data from multiple sources, including Amazon DynamoDB and internal MongoDB and ERP systems. Immediately following the lab, the team was able to use the solution to realign its product roadmap to focus on higher return-on-investment opportunities and dramatically increase engagement on newly-launched features. 

"Working directly with Amazon's architects is a major accelerator, especially in a business driven by speed to market. The AWS Data Lab prepped for us, were in the room to support our build, and we walked out days later with a functioning product. The new products we are launching are game-changing and the added knowledge we have will help us continue to lead the market." Luis Lafer-Sousa, President - US, TownSq.

hc1 offers a suite of cloud-based, high-value care solutions that enable healthcare organizations to transform business and clinical data into the intelligence necessary to deliver on the promise of personalized care, all while eliminating waste. As an aggregator of billions of healthcare records from a number of large diagnostic testing providers, hc1 identified the need to migrate from its existing data warehouse to a scalable data lake on AWS to support its advanced analytics initiatives with AWS artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) services. AWS Data Lab helped hc1 migrate its patient diagnostic testing data warehouse to a data lake architecture by partnering to rebuild its core SQL-based ingestion, cleanup, and patient-matching extract, transform, load (ETL) scripts as AWS Glue ETL jobs. The team also leveraged AWS Glue FindMatches to deduplicate patient test panel records across testing providers. hc1's team left the Build Lab with a well-architected data lake framework for its application’s core data repository. The hc1 team also learned best practices for matching patient information across datasets using AWS AI services, which will ensure patient medical record completeness and accuracy by deduplicating data from different points of care.

"Reliable patient record matching is pivotal in improving patient outcomes and reducing clinical waste. AWS AI services allows us to flexibly update our matching system. We are able to incorporate new sources in less than half the time.” Charles Clarke, SVP of Technology, hc1.

Automox is an information technology company providing a cloud-native, zero-maintenance solution that modernizes endpoint management for optimized security and business outcomes. Automox collaborated with the AWS Data Lab to build a platform for providing enterprise customers with analytics and insights into endpoint management, patching, and vulnerabilities. Automox leveraged the Data Lab to prototype an end-to-end data pipeline with the goal of enabling an analytics API that can be used without knowledge of the structure in the underlying data stores. This included an ingestion service to load endpoint and patch data from their unified data layer, a data lake for multipurpose storage, and a batch processing layer for aggregations and dynamic querying. This reporting and analytics platform will support both internal users and external customers. The team left the AWS Data Lab with a validated prototype for a data processing pipeline that will support Automox's analytics and query requirements, offering scalability and flexibility as its data footprint continues to grow.

"To address our customers' problems, we need to build fast and make the right technology decisions. AWS Data Lab was the right accelerator for us and gives us a wonderful advantage, being able to validate our assumptions and answer our questions with the right expertise” Pascal Borghino, Head of Engineering, Automox.

Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) is a multinational professional services network of firms, operating as partnerships under the PwC brand. As more organizations use technology and data to modernize and optimize their businesses, there's a need to build solutions using advanced analytics and machine learning (ML) that automate processes, create efficiencies, and ultimately deliver better customer experiences. Recognizing that building an integrated, automated ML system from scratch and operating it in production could be challenging, PwC set out to create a solution that would simplify this. PwC collaborated with the AWS Data Lab to develop assets that automate the build, deployment, and maintenance of ML models for their customers. As part of the Build Lab, PwC built a model build pipeline, model deployment pipeline, and model monitoring and prediction serving pipeline using Amazon SageMaker that customers can use as a template for their ML use cases, without major code change. Their solution improves prediction quality, reduces time to value for ML research, and allows data scientists to rapidly react to changes in the market.

"If organizations fail to embrace artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to provide their goods and services, they risk going out of business entirely." Mo Bashir, Managing Director, PwC Australia.

Adore Beauty is a pure play online beauty retailer in Australia, and an official stockist of over 260 leading beauty brands. Adore Beauty sought to improve and iterate their approach to forecasting sales revenue and worked with the AWS Data Lab to build an AI-powered solution using Amazon Forecast that is both flexible and accurate. Participating in a Build Lab, the team left the lab with a custom-fit solution that helped them shave months off of their production timeline and improve the accuracy of their sales forecasting.

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Merqueo is a high-growth Colombian startup that brings to market thousands of household products including fresh and frozen foods and beverages, packaged products, and household essentials. Merqueo collaborated with AWS Data Lab to design a platform that trains, evaluates, and deploys hundreds of machine learning models to forecast demand for products housed in warehouse locations across Latin America. After bringing their solution to production, results from a comparative sample showed that forecast accuracy improved by 32% and the number of hours a product was sold out reduced by 53%.

“Merqueo optimized its machine learning architecture to improve demand forecasting in all its business operations in Latin America by working with the AWS Data Lab.” Juan Pablo Trujillo Jácome, Vice President - Data LatAm, Merqueo.

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3M is an American enterprise company operating in the fields of industry, worker safety, health care, and consumer goods. 3M R&D needed to enhance its machine learning, analytics, and reporting capabilities for more than 10,000 spreadsheets across six different business operations with more than fifty different schemas. With guidance from the AWS Data Lab, 3M developed a minimum viable product (MVP) for multiple data pipelines, processed with extract, transform, load (ETL), to flow into a data lake in Amazon S3, and then interpret, analyze, and visualize the data using Amazon SageMaker Notebooks and Amazon QuickSight for enhanced insights. This solution will allow 3M to work with customers more interactively, enabling immediate response time and higher customer satisfaction with the entire sales and solutioning process.

“I never knew it was possible to organize so much data in a way that would allow me to effectively access and analyze millions of rows of data, where before I was constantly looking for spreadsheets or just asking for another test to be run.” Lead Materials Application Engineer, 3M.

Drishya AI Labs is an an innovative Industrial AI solutions and deep tech company that uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to help customers optimize their energy operations. Drishya participated in both a Design Lab and a Build Lab to architect the foundation of a multi-tenant data lake, including ETL pipelines and pipelines for building and deploying their machine learning models on AWS. This solution provides the capability to ingest a variety of data points such as high frequency Industrial IoT (IIOT) time series sensor data and work journal data from any Energy customer and derive meaningful recommendations from the data quickly and sustainably. Drishya successfully launched their data platform with batch use cases only three months post-lab and has since seen a rapid progression in terms of efficiency, capacity, and revenue.

"AWS has helped us rapidly build a world-class, scalable, and secure high frequency time series platform, which is a core asset enabling us to provide quality business solutions and deliver customer value.” Saumil Sheth, Chief Operating Officer, Drishya AI Labs Inc.

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Civitas Learning is a mission-driven education technology company that relies on the power of machine learning analytics to help higher-education institutions improve student success outcomes. The company collaborated with the AWS Data Lab to design and build an automation notebook architecture and dashboard to track the efficacy of various student success initiatives using machine learning models. The team left the lab with a flexible, repeatable workflow it can use for automating a variety of data science projects in the future. By attending the AWS Data Lab, Civitas’s data science team deepened their knowledge of AWS services and left equipped with the skills needed to quickly adapt this framework at the onset of COVID19 to meet the rapidly changing needs of their community college and university customers. 

“AWS assembled a super team to help us architect and integrate key building blocks in machine learning causal inference so that we could construct a real-world evidence knowledge base. They also made sure that we stayed on course after our Data Lab engagement, which is helping us scale our ML practice with much faster deployment speed. It’s been a great, rewarding experience for us all, and our customers are happier as a result.” David Kil, Chief Data Scientist, Civitas Learning.

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KnowBe4, Inc. provides Security Awareness Training to help companies manage the IT security problems of social engineering, spear phishing, and ransomware attacks. Its training platform revolves around the Risk Score pipeline, which generates an individualized risk score for tens of millions of users daily. KnowBe4 worked with the AWS Data Lab to build a working prototype of a new Risk Score pipeline that reduced total runtime by more than half and horizontally scaled every aspect of data retrieval, processing, and training. After the Build Lab, the team used the skills it learned to continue to optimize its pipeline. Five months post-lab, KnowBe4 launched to production with a six-fold reduction in total runtime and a four-fold savings in cost.

“What we did in four days would have taken us weeks, maybe months, to achieve some of this refactor of the technical debt we had with our AI pipeline. And at the same time prepare our data handling to scale to 10x what we have today” Marcio Castilho, Chief Architect Officer, KnowBe4.

PHD Media is a global communications planning and media buying agency network. PHD Media needed to build a lean, high-performant, and scalable extract, transform, load (ETL) and data storage infrastructure that could support future Machine Learning workloads. The AWS Data Lab helped PHD Media move its ETL jobs to AWS Glue and rebuild its pipeline into a three-part process: data ingestion, data staging, and data summarization. PHD Media left the AWS Data Lab with a new architecture for its data pipeline that reduces ETL processing time from 21 hours to 75 minutes and is capable of integrating with Amazon SageMaker and BI tools.

“We would not have been able to dedicate the same amount of time to the development, nor been able to resolve our questions and problems as quickly without the AWS Data Lab. Doing the same work outside of the AWS Data Lab would have cost us significantly more in funds and time.” Amar Vyas, Global Data Strategy Director, PHD Global Business.

Persefoni is a SaaS Climate Management and Accounting Platform that enables organizations and financial institutions to measure and manage their carbon footprint across their operations and portfolios in a centralized, cloud-based application. To improve Persefoni’s SaaS Platform, their engineering team reached out for guidance and design validation from AWS specialized resources to evaluate and improve the current microservices, API management, and Amazon Aurora MySQL multi-region architecture for the Persefoni Climate Management and Accounting Platform (CMAP).

“AWS Data Lab was instrumental in helping Persefoni quickly and effectively collaborate across AWS engineering teams to validate and enhance our microservices based platform architecture, at a speed and scale required by a fast moving organization. AWS provided focused resources and subject matter experts to explore architecture options, develop working models, and incorporate the availability, reliability, and security needed in the Persefoni Platform. With the AWS Data Lab, we were able to define a fully distributed serverless container architecture using Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate that enables DevSecOps patterns, is scalable and secure by default, and delivers the results our customers expect.” S. Mark Underwood, Director, Cloud Architecture and DevSecOps, Persefoni.

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Prevsis is a leading Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS) solution provider in Latin America, with presence in more than 18 countries. As Prevsis expands into new markets across Latin America, they needed a data architecture that could scale with them. They attended a Design Lab to decouple their monolithic architecture into a micro-services architecture that leverages purpose-built data stores such as Amazon Neptune and Amazon Aurora for different use cases and access patterns. The team left the lab with an architecture that meets their business needs for performance, cost, scale, and customer experience.

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Verisk is a leading global data-driven analytic insights and solutions provider serving the insurance and energy industries. Verisk collaborated with AWS Data Lab to navigate the design, architectural, and implementation challenges that come with undertaking mass data migrations involving complex data types like large objects and geospatial data, large volumes of data, and complex procedures and schemas developed over 20+ years. AWS Data Lab worked with Verisk to architect and prove out a migration path from Verisk's legacy systems to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL using Amazon Database Migration Service and AWS Schema Conversion Tool. Verisk left the lab with a focused migration strategy, a deepened understanding of how to migrate efficiently to AWS databases, and best practices for database administration and operating PostgreSQL databases in production.

"As a Database Administrator at Verisk working on the data migration, I am miles ahead of where I was prior to working with the AWS Data Lab. I have more confidence in being able to successfully migrate our legacy database to Aurora PostgreSQL and have a better understanding of what products are available to us. I couldn't have asked for a better experience."

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Since 1882, Dow Jones has been finding new ways to bring information to the world’s top business entities. Dow Jones had several Informix databases to migrate to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and engaged the AWS Data Lab to help it test different data migration options and establish a well-architected data migration approach to apply to its 100+ databases. In just a week, Dow Jones emerged with a finalized approach for scripting and automating data migration and code deployment, including how to convert stored procedures, triggers, and tables, setting the stage for future Informix migrations.

Principal Financial Group (Principal®) is an established financial services firm with over 140 years in business. With decades of data siloed across the enterprise, Principal collaborated with an AWS Resident Architect (RA) to develop a data-driven approach for accessing customer data and insights. During the 6-month engagement, the AWS RA helped Principal strategize, design, build, and launch an Enterprise Data Foundation based on a distributed data mesh architecture. Principal can now glean insights about their customers that helps them drive innovation and create a hyper-personalized experience for their customers.

“In 6 months, Principal and the AWS Resident Architect built a data foundation that we have started to use. We have a clear path forward and greater confidence in how we will be able to use insights to tailor products for our customers. I look forward to working with the AWS RA to continue to drive product innovation on behalf of our customers.” Angela Muhlbauer, Director of Engineering, Principal Financial Group

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Thomson Reuters (TR) is a leading provider of business information services. After developing AI capabilities for business challenges like financial forecasting and customer churn, TR engaged an AWS Resident Architect to design an Enterprise Artificial Intelligence (AI) Platform that would enable machine learning and innovation through AI across all facets of TR. The Resident Architect helped TR validate their strategy, design an ML lifecycle architecture, and ultimately build their first-ever Enterprise AI Platform - giving teams across TR a single pane of glass for ML capabilities and the ability to develop and build ML models faster.

“I love working with our AWS Resident Architect. She helped bridge a gap in our team that we would not have been able to do on our own [...] TR teams can now use AWS capabilities to train and release an ML model within weeks, compared to months." Maria Apazoglou, Vice President of AI/ML & BI Platforms, Thomson Reuters

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GuideOne is an insurer of non-profit organizations, including religious institutions and private/charter schools. AWS Resident Architect helped GuideOne build a modern, secure, and scalable data foundation on AWS. By understanding their business needs, the Resident Architect created high-level data and analytics architectures that accelerated their cloud migration and helped them develop a long-term vision and roadmap for their modern data foundation on AWS. GuideOne is now equipped to develop effective data and analytics solutions on AWS at a faster pace that drive business value related to underwriting, customer and agent platforms, financial risk management, and claims.

“The AWS Resident Architect helped us accelerate our cloud migration journey, and various SME discussions between our domain experts and AWS cloud experts helped mutual knowledge sharing and upskilling. The hands-on Data Lab engagements helped by bringing multiple teams together, building solutions, and establishing patterns to get workloads to the cloud efficiently. The weekly discussions and the work breakdown reviews helped us be focused, identify risks, and prepare for next steps.” Steve Corbett, Director of Data Management, GuideOne.

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KRS.io is a provider of cutting-edge solutions to the convenience and petroleum industry. As KRS set out to build the most advanced retail analytics platform for their clients, a key challenge for them was integrating dozens of different data sets. Their ability to rapidly innovate and develop products was stifled by on-premise data solutions that did not scale well. KRS engaged an AWS Resident Architect (RA) to develop a modern data lake house architecture and validate critical design decisions and business requirements that helped them move rapidly from proof-of-concept to production deployment. Using the architectures and solutions roadmaps developed with the RA, KRS successfully launched a new analytics product – Epiphany Data Neurocenter – to production in a matter of months.

“Our AWS Resident Architect was a multiplier. They enabled my architects and engineers to complete our data lake house deployment in a few short months. KRS now has the data architecture necessary to innovate and grow..” Brian McManus, CTO, KRS.io.

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Wood Mackenzie, a Verisk business, is a global research and consultancy business powering the energy industry. Wood Mackenzie engaged an AWS Data Lab Resident Architect to review its data and analytics strategy, develop data architecture principles, and enhance its understanding of how to build and scale data architecture solutions for its data platform. As a result, Wood Mackenzie has been able to create a range of scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient implementation patterns, as well as cultivate a culture of modern data architecture literacy. These improvements have resulted in more efficient data pipelines and workloads, leading to high-quality and robust data sets for customers and analysts to support Wood Mackenzie in its journey to transform how they power the planet. 

“Our AWS Resident Architect has helped with both tactical items and served as a sounding board as we develop our internal data architecture strategy. Their presence in meetings has been met with comments ranging from ‘I didn’t know AWS had architects that could review our workloads’ to ‘this is really cool.’ Having a Resident Architect has helped us make the most of all of the AWS resources we have and has been a positive feedback cycle into how we build going forward.” Liz Dennett, Ph.D., VP of Data Architecture, Wood Mackenzie.

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