AWS launches Data Lab program in India
Amazon
Web
Services
(AWS)
on
Monday
said
it
was
making
its
AWS
Data
Lab
program
available
in
India.
Amazon
Web
Services
(AWS)
on
Monday
said
it
was
making
its
AWS
Data
Lab
program
available
in
India.
The
complimentary
program
is
targeted
at
accelerating
joint
engineering
efforts
between
enterprise
customers
and
AWS
technical
experts
to
tackle
complex
data,
architecture
challenges
using
AWS
products
and
services,
the
company
said.
AWS
Data
Lab,
which
primarily
has
three
offerings
in
the
form
of
the
build
lab,
the
design
lab,
and
the
resident
architect,
can
be
used
for
activities
or
initiatives
such
as
database
migration,
setting
up
data
lakes
along
with
analytics,
artificial
intelligence
and
machine
learning
projects,
and
application
modernization.
The
program’s
build
lab,
according
to
AWS,
is
a
two
to
five-day
joint
session
with
a
technical
customer
team.
The
design
lab,
on
the
other
hand,
is
one
and
a
half
to
two-day
engagement
with
enterprises
who
are
in
need
for
a
real-world
architecture
recommendation
on
AWS
and
are
yet
to
build
out
their
cloud
operations,
the
company
said,
adding
that
this
guidance
is
provided
by
AWS
experts.
Both
the
design
lab
and
the
build
lab
engagements
are
either
hosted
online
or
in
person,
AWS
explained
on
the
Data
Lab
portal.
“Customers
leave
the
engagement
with
an
architecture
or
working
prototype
that
is
custom
fit
to
their
needs,
a
path
to
production,
deeper
knowledge
of
AWS
databases,
analytics,
AI/ML,
serverless,
and/or
containers
services,
and
new
relationships
with
AWS
service
experts,”
AWS
said.
Resident
architects
under
the
program
will
provide
AWS
enterprise
customers
with
technical
and
strategic
guidance
in
refining,
implementing,
and
accelerating
their
data
strategy
and
solutions
over
a
six-month
engagement.
Resident
architects
usually
engage
with
chief
data
officers,
vice
presidents
of
data
architecture
and
other
builders
within
an
enterprise,
AWS
added.
AWS
Data
Lab,
according
to
AWS
India
&
South
Asia’s
President
of
Commercial
Business,
Puneet
Chandok,
can
benefit
enterprises
by
helping
them
build
internal
data
analytics
skills,
which
may
involve
upskilling
current
staff
through
on-the-job
training,
other
training
courses
and
partnering
with
organizations.
In
India,
PayU
Finance
has
used
AWS
Data
Lab
to
move
away
from
legacy
infrastructure
to
build
a
scalable
data
platform
suited
to
its
business
requirements,
PayU
Finance’s
Chief
Data
Scientist
Piyush
Gupta
said
in
a
press
statement.
The
Data
Lab
in
India
joins
AWS’
network
of
Data
Labs
across
the
US,
the
UK,
Australia,
New
Zealand,
Brazil,
Korea
and
the
ASEAN
region.
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