AWS Big Data Blog
Author: Syed Jaffry
Syed Jaffry is a Sr. Solutions Architect with AWS. He works with a range of companies from mid-sized organizations to large enterprises, financial services to ISVs, in helping them build and operate secure, resilient, scalable, and high performance applications in the cloud.
Build an end to end, automated inventory forecasting capability with AWS Lake Formation and Amazon Forecast
This post demonstrates how you can automate the data extraction, transformation, and use of Forecast for the use case of a retailer that requires recurring replenishment of inventory. You achieve this by using AWS Lake Formation to build a secure data lake and ingest data into it, orchestrate the data transformation using an AWS Glue workflow, and visualize the forecast results in Amazon QuickSight.