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A Modern Data Platform Reference on AWS
An end-to-end architecture for ingest, storage, transform and serve that stays scalable, secure and cost-aware.
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Ingest, store, transform, serve
A reference architecture is useful precisely because it is boring. Four stages, clear contracts between them, and one owner per stage.
Where the cost actually goes
Storage is rarely the problem. Compute scheduled without guardrails is. Put budgets and alerts at the stage boundaries, keep transformation idempotent, and make the serving layer the only thing that has to be fast.