Maximizing Business Potential with AWS Cloud Analytics

Jun 23, 2024 | Articles, Migration

Harnessing the power of data is crucial for staying competitive in the modern business landscape. At Aligned Technology Group, we understand the transformative potential of data analytics. By leveraging Amazon Web Services (AWS), we provide automated data analytics solutions that help businesses break down data silos, increase cost-effectiveness, and unlock their data’s full potential.

Uncover New Business Opportunities

As customer needs continue to evolve, gaining better and faster insights can uncover new opportunities and foster innovation. Data-driven decision-making allows businesses to identify new revenue streams, plan improvements to existing products or services, and highlight customer service successes and opportunities for engagement. By leveraging data from both existing and new products and services, organizations can get a 360-degree view of their customers, enhancing customer experience and engagement on an ongoing basis.

Free Up Teams and Resources for Innovation

Manual processes consume valuable time and budgets, making it challenging for teams to focus on innovation and product development. A cloud-based data strategy improves access to data and automates repetitive processes, freeing up teams and resources for more innovative tasks. This approach helps businesses uncover new opportunities, unlock insights with AI and ML, make smarter decisions in real time, and optimize costs.

Increase Operational Efficiency and Optimize Costs

Data silos can lead to increased costs and inefficiencies, forcing businesses to rely on spreadsheets and disconnected databases. A unified data infrastructure in the cloud addresses these issues, enabling businesses to identify operational hotspots and automate manual processes. Improved visibility into processes, products, and services allows organizations to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and reallocate resources to high-value tasks that drive innovation.

Building a Better Data Strategy with AWS

Define Your Business Goals and Objectives

Before embarking on a data transformation journey, it’s essential to define what success looks like for your business. This lays the groundwork for a clear, realistic path to becoming a data-driven organization.

Collect Your Data and Choose Your Tools

Moving to the cloud is key to making data more accessible, understandable, and useful. AWS provides a comprehensive set of data capabilities to support any workload or use case. From databases and data lakes to analytics and ML tools, AWS ensures businesses do not have to compromise on performance, cost, or results.

Analyze Your Data and Put It to Use

With business objectives aligned and data migrated to the cloud, it’s time to analyze and find insights that can serve your organization. AWS’s data warehouses and data lakes provide the foundation for delivering reports and dashboards that monitor performance and drive smarter business decisions.

Comprehensive AWS Analytics Services

At Aligned Technology Group, we offer a broad and cost-effective set of AWS analytics services designed to help businesses gain insights faster from all their data:

AWS Redshift

Amazon Redshift uses SQL to analyze structured and semi-structured data across data warehouses, operational databases, and data lakes. It leverages AWS-designed hardware and machine learning to deliver optimal price performance at any scale.

Amazon MSK

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) captures streaming data and handles high data volumes from numerous data producers, enabling businesses to process and analyze streaming data effectively.

Amazon Kinesis

The Streaming Data Solution for Amazon Kinesis includes deployment options configured with best practices for streaming data, including data monitoring and security.

Data Lake on AWS

AWS provides the building blocks needed to implement a secure, flexible, and cost-effective data lake. The Data Lake on AWS architecture ensures a highly available and cost-effective solution with an intuitive console for searching and requesting datasets.

AWS Lake Formation

AWS Lake Formation simplifies permissions management and data sharing across organizations and external entities.

Amazon SageMaker

Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed service that enables high-performance, low-cost machine learning for any use case. It supports governance requirements with simplified access control and transparency over ML projects.

At Aligned Technology Group, we believe in the power of data to drive innovation and business growth. By leveraging AWS’s robust capabilities, we help businesses break down data silos, enhance cost-effectiveness, and unlock their data’s full potential. Let us partner with you to harness the power of cloud analytics and drive your business forward.

For more information on how Aligned Technology Group can help you with AWS Cloud Analytics, visit here.

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Cost Optimization

Issue: Small AWS deployment with little management oversight and a lack of cloud skills internal to the organization moving from traditional infrastructure to SaaS and cloud based solutions.

 

What we did

  1. AWS Audit
  2. Cost Optimization Review
  3. Ongoing Monitoring

 

Result:

  • Eliminated unused storage volumes and the old application server no longer in use, the charges for AWS resulted in a savings of 51% per month.
  • We’ll continue to monitor AWS billing and finance to ensure maintenance of savings and identify other future changes.

Cost Optimization

Issue: Small AWS deployment with little management oversight and a lack of cloud skills internal to the organization moving from traditional infrastructure to SaaS and cloud based solutions.

 

What we did

  1. AWS Audit
  2. Cost Optimization Review
  3. Ongoing Monitoring

 

Result:

  • Eliminated unused storage volumes and the old application server no longer in use, the charges for AWS resulted in a savings of 51% per month.
  • We’ll continue to monitor AWS billing and finance to ensure maintenance of savings and identify other future changes.