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by macinjosh 2342 days ago
> I have created a simple workflow using AWS Lambda + Kinesis + S3 to track our customers and not to have any 3rd party dependency.

Except for each of the 3 components you listed that make up your system. They are 3rd party dependencies,
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whoisjuan 2342 days ago
Everything is a 3rd party dependency then. The only way to not have a 3rd party dependency is to build your own infrastructure and use open source solutions (and even with OS you're still dependent).

I think OP was clearly referring to a self-managed solution as opposed to a set of 3rd party services like GA, Segment, etc, where the flow of data is out for your control.

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StreamBright 2342 days ago
I meant no 3rd party dependency on storing customer data that requires extra legal work in GDPR land. Maybe we need to include AWS in that though. I need to look into it how cloud vendors are 3rd party in that sense. Is there a difference between Google Analytics vs. storing data on S3 even if we do not collect PII?
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