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Amazon Web Services (AWS)

AWS is Amazon cloud platform, offering storage, compute and data services such as S3 and Redshift.

Written by Reflective Data experts · updated Oct 5, 2026

Data teams use it for data lakes on S3, warehousing on Redshift, query services such as Athena and a wide ecosystem of integrations.

It is a common choice for organisations already running their applications on AWS.

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Single sign-on lets users access many tools with one login managed by a company identity provider.

Data ingestion is the process of bringing data from sources into a storage or analytics system.

Data retention policies define how long different data is kept before it is deleted or archived.

Infrastructure as code defines cloud resources in version-controlled files, so environments are reproducible and reviewable.

An idempotent process gives the same result no matter how many times it runs.

Semi-structured data has a flexible shape, like JSON, rather than fixed rows and columns.