AWS Architecture Blog
Category: Analytics
How CSIRO built scalable, cost-optimized genomic variant querying on AWS
Learn how researchers at CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, built Serverless Beacon (sBeacon), a scalable serverless solution for securely querying genomic variant data on AWS. sBeacon implements the GA4GH Beacon standard using Amazon S3, AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Athena to support production-scale clinical and research applications.
How a global payment processor preserved AWS RAM shares and Lake Formation permissions during an AWS Organizations migration
When AWS accounts move between organizations, organization-bound AWS RAM resource shares break and control-plane access is lost. Learn how a global payment processor used temporary bridge shares to preserve AWS Lake Formation permissions across a 382-account AWS Organizations migration, then restored the original shares as the durable source of truth.
How Mapfre Insurance modernized fraud claims with Amazon EMR Serverless
Insurance fraud remains a significant challenge for the insurance industry because fraudulent claims can increase loss costs, reduce trust, and consume investigation capacity that could otherwise be focused on serving customers. Traditional fraud detection approaches typically rely on rules-based controls, manual investigation triggers, historical claim patterns, and structured-data-only analysis. These approaches are useful for known […]
Specification-driven composition for flexible data workflows
Specification-driven composition addresses a common scalability bottleneck in data pipelines. Data pipelines often start as simple scripts, but as they grow, you duplicate transformation logic and small changes cascade across multiple workflows. Copying and modifying data transformation logic across scripts leads to workflows that become difficult to manage at scale. Tracking what each pipeline does […]
Modernizing financial analytics with Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio
Avanse Financial Services, India’s leading education loan providers, migrated to a cloud-native lakehouse architecture using Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio, which unified their data engineering, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) workflows in a single governed environment on AWS. In this post, we walk through their migration journey so you can adapt their approach to your own environment.
Building a scalable user search layer on top of Amazon Cognito
In this post, we show how to build a comprehensive scalable user search layer on top of Amazon Cognito using AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon OpenSearch Service.
Real-time analytics: Oldcastle integrates Infor with Amazon Aurora and Amazon Quick Sight
This post explores how Oldcastle used AWS services to transform their analytics and AI capabilities by integrating Infor ERP with Amazon Aurora and Amazon Quick Sight. We discuss how they overcame the limitations of traditional cloud ERP reporting to deploy real-time dashboards and build a scalable analytics system. This practical, enterprise-grade approach offers a blueprint that organizations can adapt when extending ERP capabilities with cloud-native analytics and AI.
Modernization of real-time payment orchestration on AWS
The global real-time payments market is experiencing significant growth. According to Fortune Business Insights, the market was valued at USD 24.91 billion in 2024 and is projected to grow to USD 284.49 billion by 2032, with a CAGR of 35.4%. Similarly, Grand View Research reports that the global mobile payment market, valued at USD 88.50 […]
How Karrot built a feature platform on AWS, Part 2: Feature ingestion
This two-part series shows how Karrot developed a new feature platform, which consists of three main components: feature serving, a stream ingestion pipeline, and a batch ingestion pipeline. This post covers the process of collecting features in real-time and batch ingestion into an online store, and the technical approaches for stable operation.
Analyze media content using AWS AI services
Organizations managing large audio and video archives face significant challenges in extracting value from their media content. Consider a radio network with thousands of broadcast hours across multiple stations and the challenges they face to efficiently verify ad placements, identify interview segments, and analyze programming patterns. In this post, we demonstrate how you can automatically transform unstructured media files into searchable, analyzable content.









