The document presents a comprehensive overview of building a modern data platform on AWS, emphasizing the importance of data lakes for organizations to gain a competitive advantage by leveraging their data effectively. It discusses various AWS services for data collection, storage, analysis, and management, including Kinesis, S3, Glue, and Athena, in the context of transforming traditional data analytics practices. Finally, it highlights the need for discoverable data and addresses the issue of 'dark data' that organizations often overlook.
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