Business scenario setup

The flow of this book is kept in such a way that it helps you get to the end state of building a modern data platform using AWS, with the ultimate goal of solving business use cases. To demonstrate all the building blocks of the data platform, it is important that I assume a fictitious entity and build a story around it. It’s easier to understand concepts if there is steady progression and continuity in the storyline.

For this book, I will consider a financial organization and all its use cases. You can apply most of the design and architecture techniques to other sector use cases too. The bottom line is that organizations may have different business models, but the concepts that go into building a modern data platform on AWS, to a large extent, remain the same irrespective of the business domain. In other words, the same AWS services and functionalities will be leveraged in building any kind of data platform.

Let’s consider a fictitious...