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Performant and Cost-Effective Data Platform
In this chapter, we will look at the following key topics:
- Why does a performant and cost-effective data platform matter?
- Data storage optimizations
- Compute resource optimizations
- Cost optimization tools
- Tool-specific performance tuning
Why does a performant and cost-effective data platform matter?
One of the key pillars of a modern data architecture on AWS is around the performance and cost of the data platform being built. Users of the platform are not going to wait 5 minutes for a report to load. Also, if an organization were to measure the return on investment from the data platform, getting a dollar’s worth of benefit is not sustainable if it costs them two dollars to get the result.
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