AWS offers over 200 Services to choose from, of which Data related services accounts for more 70% of these services, including 15+ purpose-built data engines.

In recent years, there has been an explosion of new, modern data tools aimed at dramatically improving data productivity and analytics capabilities. Cloud data platforms have made data storage and compute scalable and cost-effective; however, the complexity of architectures has also increased with the number of available technologies and tools.

The DevIQ value proposition is that we have a mature process for quickly understanding your Enterprise needs, defining an Architecture and Approach, and then assisting with execution, including a structured yet rapid tool evaluation and selection process. We are experienced in the most recent architectures, including cloud data lakes, lakehouses, and data mesh implementations.

With so many purpose-built, easy to use tools now available on the market covering the entire data lifecycle, the modern data stack has truly enabled a step change in productivity and capability. By leveraging these tools through a carefully choreographed data architecture and selection process, enterprises can unlock data-driven insights and opportunities at a massive scale.

There are 5 key areas we focus on related to Data Strategy:

1. Business Alignment: Align your data strategy with your business strategy with a focus on the desired business results.
2. Governance: Data governance is the process of managing datasets in terms of ownership, integrity, compliance, quality, content, and relationship with other datasets.
3. Organization: Identify the makeup of the current IT organization & discuss organization's ability to support the data strategy, architecture and governance.
4. Architecture: Understanding the existing & future data assets is key. Important questions need to be raised, such as, what type of data is needed to solve business problems and what’s the volume growth in 3 to 5 years.
5. Tool Selection: In recent years, cloud & software vendors have embraced the Modern Data Platform & have released many tools to support implementations, it is critical to carefully evaluate the vendors & tools to ensure they meet the key elements of your data strategy.

The DevIQ Data Strategy 2-Week Assessment offering covers the following topics:

• A 2-day Workshop, including understanding Key Business Objectives, Personas, and the current IT systems and data landscape
• Matching the appropriate AWS and 3rd party technologies to your organization's business use cases, using our proven Tool Selection process
• Understanding your current data engineering skillsets and making recommendations for training and collaboration to fill skillset gaps
• Enabling compliance with your Data Governance requirements using the best AWS technologies available
• Ensuring you are selecting the AWS solution stack which achieves the best Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and aligns with your Business Goals

DevIQ looks forward to helping align your Data Strategy with your Business Goals, while accelerating the process of planning implementation. Let's get your Modern AWS Data Platform up and running today!