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There’s nothing that’s simple when you’re dealing with 10s of thousands of different datasets across many different internal team and service boundaries with their own security setup depending on the data that’s being stored.

The cost of automating and properly securing it (since “gather all customer data into one place” is generally not great as it’s a single point of failure from a security perspective). All of that isn’t really worth it to spend the effort automating if the total number of requests for data is not that high.



My reply was to one person presumably on a pizza team at AWS. Surely they would realize some savings from automating their own retrieval requests.

As others have pointed out aggregating all of the different reports into one download is a trivial task itself suited well for automation.




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