
AWS serverless data archiving using S3, Glue, Lambda, and Athena enables financial services companies to archive retired system data cost-effectively at one-fifth the price of third-party solutions while maintaining regulatory compliance.


<div><p>This article presents a serverless data archiving solution for financial services and insurance companies needing to retain retired system data for regulatory compliance.</p><ul><li>Custom AWS solution costs one-fifth of third-party alternatives over 10 years</li><li>Uses Amazon S3, AWS Glue, Lambda, and Athena for serverless archiving and retrieval</li><li>AWS Glue crawlers automatically infer schemas and catalog archival data</li><li>Amazon Athena enables SQL queries on archived data via REST API</li><li>Lambda functions enforce automated data retention policies by domain</li><li>Jinja templating improved delivery speed and reduced frontend/backend changes by 30%</li><li>Real implementation reduced storage from 3TB to 35GB across 80 use cases</li><li>Requires business sponsorship, clear SLAs, and early prototype visualization</li></ul><p>Serverless data archiving on AWS provides cost-effective compliance-ready solutions for decommissioned legacy systems without vendor software overhead.</p></div>


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