With over 90% of today’s data generated in the last two years, the rate of data growth is showing no sign of slowing down. In this session, we step through the challenges and best practices for capturing data, understanding what data you own, driving insights, and predicting the future using AWS services. We frame the session and demonstrations around common pitfalls of building data lakes and how to successfully drive analytics and insights from data. We also discuss the architecture patterns brought together key AWS services, including Amazon S3, AWS Glue, Amazon Athena, Amazon Kinesis, and Amazon Machine Learning. Discover the real-world application of data lakes for roles including data scientists and business users. Stephen Moon, Sr. Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services James Juniper, Solution Architect for the Geo-Community Cloud, Natural Resources Canada