AWS Public Sector Blog
Author: George Estrada
George Estrada is a fractional Chief Technology & Innovation Officer at Rize Credit Union and the founder of Orion Digital Services, a science-based consultancy firm focused on future readiness and AI strategy. He is completing an MS in Complex Systems Science at Arizona State University and writes on technology strategy on LinkedIn.
How Rize Credit Union built a serverless data lake on AWS to become its own source of truth
Credit unions exist to serve members, not to run data centers. Every hour our team spends on infrastructure is an hour not spent on the question a member actually cares about: “Is my money safe, is my experience easy, and is my credit union on my side?” Moving to a serverless, managed-service foundation on Amazon Web Services (AWS) means our engineers spend their time on membership modeling, fraud analytics, and AI augmentation instead of capacity planning.