Automated ReportingEnterprise Data Lake & Analytics

Architecting a petabyte-scale serverless data lake and automated reporting ecosystem. This solution processes millions of daily records, enabling real-time analytics and distributing 10,000+ personalized reports daily across a global stakeholder network with zero manual intervention.

IndustryFinTech & Analytics
Duration6 Months
Primary TechnologyAWS Serverless

The Challenge

Data Silos & Latency

Legacy systems trapped critical data in disparate silos with 48+ hour reporting latency, hindering real-time decision making for global teams.

Manual Bottlenecks

Highly skilled analysts spent 40% of their time manually querying, formatting, and emailing reports, leading to burnout and human error.

Governance & Scale

Need for strict data governance, row-level security, and the ability to scale from TBs to PBs without infrastructure management.

Our Solution

01

Serverless Data Lake

Implemented a tiered data lake on S3 with AWS Glue for automated ETL, cataloging, and partitioning. This enables sub-second query performance on massive datasets using Athena's distributed engine.

02

Event-Driven Orchestration

Designed a complex Step Functions state machine to orchestrate report generation. CloudWatch Events trigger parallelized Lambda workflows that query data, format PDFs/Excel, and handle delivery logic with retries.

03

Intelligent Distribution

A dynamic distribution engine that personalizes reports for 10,000+ recipients. Granular IAM policies and SES integration ensure secure, trackable delivery to internal and external stakeholders.

System Architecture

Cloud Infrastructure Overlay

Ingestion & Orchestration

Event triggers and workflow management
EventBridge

Schedule & Event Rules

Step Functions

Workflow Orchestration

AWS Lambda

Compute Handling

Data Processing Tier

Serverless Analytics Engine
AWS Glue

ETL & Data Catalog

Amazon Athena

Distributed Query Engine

S3 Data Lake

Partitioned Storage

Delivery & Notification

Secure Output Distribution
Amazon SES

Email Delivery Service

SNS

Alerting Topics

Technologies & Services

Compute & Orchestration

AWS Step Functions
AWS Lambda
EventBridge

Analytics Core

Amazon Athena
AWS Glue Data Catalog
Amazon QuickSight

Storage Layer

Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering
DynamoDB

Security & Ops

AWS KMS
IAM
CloudWatch Logs
X-Ray

Key Outcomes

90% Cost Reduction

Moved from always-on EC2 clusters to a pure pay-per-query serverless model, slashing TCO.

Real-Time Insights

Reduced reporting latency from 2 days to <15 minutes, empowering agile decision making.

Global Scale

System now handles 50TB+ monthly data ingress and distributes 10k+ reports daily with 99.99% reliability.

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