AWS Data Lake Implementation

Ingest, store, and access data in any format and volume at unmatched availability. Get the best performance at the lowest cost.

Why Implement an AWS Data Lake?

Realize optimal business value within a data-driven culture by implementing an AWS Data Lake. Utilize a consistent and robust approach to acquire vast amounts of data. In combination with Adastra’s thorough understanding of data and modern data governance practices, your data will be usable for data-driven decision-making.

Unlimited Scalability

take advantage of practically unlimited storage scaling.

Optimal Cost

intelligently and dynamically change the storage class of certain data files to drastically reduce the storage cost.

Flexibility

AWS provides a variety of services to allow for easy ingestion of data into the data lake.

Easy Access to Data

queries to raw and curated data can be executed for the shortest time to insights.

Democratized Data

AWS provides the ability for a much larger number of people in your organization to benefit from extracting business value from the data in the data lake.

Out-of-the-box Security

leverage built-in AWS security mechanisms to meet compliance and legislation requirements.

Modernize Your Data Estate with AWS Data Lake now

Easily move data between data lakes and purpose-built data services enabling easy data access wherever it’s needed. Enforce access controls from a single place for all services for superior governance.

What Do We Do

Adastra can help you plan and efficiently implement a data lake in the AWS Cloud. As a trusted AWS partner, you can tap into our vast expertise and rely on us to help guide the way for your organization to create a secure and cost-efficient cloud-based single shared repository of data.

Strategy Alignment and Roadmap

Adastra will help you identify your data strategy, cloud maturity and environment. Based on the findings, we not only design your data lake solution as per your requirements, but also create a roadmap for future development and advanced usage of the data lake across the entire organization.

Implement

Leverage our experienced team of seasoned professionals to create the data lake and necessary data pipelines for you, establish CI/CD pipelines, and make sure all security mechanisms are in place. Tap into Adastra’s expertise and benefit from proven frameworks, based on best practices.

Knowledge Transfer

We make sure your team is fully capable of managing the implemented data lake and is comfortable working with it. Optionally, you can benefit from Adastra’s managed services where we will run and update the data lake for you.

Approach to AWS Data Lake Implementation

  • Identify all stakeholders.
  • Conduct a series of exploratory workshops to get acquainted with the organization’s data strategy and long-term plans.
  • Create a catalogue of the requirements to the data lake.

  • Create a high-level design of the solution, making sure it integrates well with existing environments, while taking into consideration the possibility of future cloud migrations.
  • Create an end-to-end implementation plan, defining scope, timelines, milestones, and deliverables.
  • Define data ingestions strategies for all sources in scope.
  • Optionally, if you plan to expand your activities in the cloud beyond the data lake, we can help you create a roadmap.

  • If this is your first cloud project – our team will help you establish all necessary, cloud-based infrastructure and security mechanisms.
  • Implement data pipelines to ingest data from any identified source and process the raw data into a standardized and efficient data format, allowing for further cost savings
  • Configure CI/CD pipelines to automate testing and deployment.

  • Deliver detailed technical documentation which will allow your team to run the data lake
  • Conduct knowledge transfer and training sessions, making sure all technical and business users are well-acquainted with the delivered data lake solution.
AWS Data Lake Implementation in Healthcare
Success Story

10x Increase in Analytics Team Productivity with an AWS Data Lake Implementation

Skylight Health Group is expanding and acquiring new clinics, along with all their data. The group needed to integrate numerous electronic medical records (EMR) systems and provide healthcare practitioners with predictive analytics.

Adastra built a data management solution that makes it easy for Skylight Health’s teams to add users and access real-time data—without more infrastructure.

10x

more productive analytics team

0

manual effort needed to produce unified and consolidated reports

0

infrastructure maintenance needed

“The level of cooperation between members of our organization and Adastra has always been outstanding. The implementation of the AWS Cloud Analytics Platform powered complex insights into our business in an automated fashion.”

Chris Smith | VP Digital Health, Skylight Health Group

Success Stories

Ready to Build Your AWS Data Lake?

We will help you scope the architecture, migration path and governance so your AWS data lake delivers value from day one.

AWS Data Lake Implementation FAQ

What is a data lake?

A data lake is a central repository that ingests, stores and manages batch and streaming data of any type at large scale and low cost. Unlike traditional systems, it keeps raw data and applies structure only when the data is read. This makes it a strong foundation for advanced analytics, machine learning and self-service data discovery.

A data warehouse stores structured, modeled data (schema on write) to answer predefined business questions. A data lake ingests any data in its raw form (schema on read) quickly and cost-effectively, with only light processing such as format conversion and quality checks. The two work well together, and the data lake often feeds the data warehouse.

For most organizations, cloud is the better choice. AWS removes large capital expenditures and the risk of over- or under-provisioning hardware, and you pay only for what you use. Storage and compute scale in minutes, and under the shared responsibility model AWS handles infrastructure security, maintenance and patching, so your team focuses on data.

Adastra works in four phases. We assess your stakeholders, data strategy and requirements, then design the architecture and an end-to-end plan with scope, timelines and ingestion strategies. Next, we build the cloud infrastructure, security, data pipelines and CI/CD automation. Finally, we hand over documentation and train your technical and business users.

Design governance in from the start instead of adding it later. Adastra sets up data cataloging, metadata, data quality checks and access controls with the first pipeline, and converts raw data into efficient, standardized formats. Clear ownership and documentation make data easy to find and trust, so the lake stays useful as volumes and users grow.

Yes, when security is configured properly. AWS provides encryption at rest and in transit, fine-grained access control and detailed audit logging out of the box. Adastra designs these security mechanisms into your data lake from the start, aligned with your compliance requirements, so each team can access only the data it is allowed to use.

Yes. Adastra delivers detailed technical documentation and runs knowledge transfer and training sessions for both technical and business users. If this is your first cloud project, we also help you establish the cloud infrastructure and operating practices. Your team gets the skills and documentation to run, extend and optimize the data lake independently.