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A Data Engineer conceives, builds and maintains the data infrastructure that holds your enterprise's BI and Advanced Analytics capacities together. These are the capacities that allow your enterprise to leverage the multiple, disconnected streams of data into rational, data-driven decisions and customer engagement.
The procurement of cloud services is unlike traditional technology purchasing. Traditional procurement and contracting approaches that are designed to purchase products, such as hardware and related software, can be inconsistent with cloud services. A failure to modernize contracting and procurement approaches can reduce the pool of competitors and inhibit customer ability to adopt and leverage cloud technology.
Cloud procurement presents an opportunity to reevaluate existing procurement strategies so you can create a flexible acquisition process that enables your organization to extract the full benefits of the cloud. The following procurement considerations are key components that can form the basis of a broader cloud procurement strategy.
Gartner Research positions Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Leaders Quadrant of the new Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, Worldwide (June 2017). Cloud IaaS, in the context of this Magic Quadrant, is defined as "a standardized, highly automated offering, where compute resources, complemented by storage and networking capabilities, are owned by a service provider and offered to the customer on demand."
Public Sector customer Case: Building a Data Lake on AWS