Case Study: The Bank of Bahrain and Kuwait achieves 7X faster data queries with AWS Glue

The Bank of Bahrain and Kuwait Accelerates Data Queries by 7X with AWS and Cognizant

The Bank of Bahrain and Kuwait (BBK) wanted to become a truly data-driven institution, but its legacy data warehouse could not support advanced analytics, AI, or machine learning while meeting strict compliance requirements. To address this challenge, BBK worked with AWS Glue as part of an AWS-based cloud modernization effort to prepare data for analytics and ML in a secure, scalable environment.

AWS Glue helped BBK build a compliant data analytics platform on AWS, alongside services like Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Amazon SageMaker, and Amazon Q, enabling faster insights and new AI-driven use cases. The results were strong: BBK completed the migration and platform build in 18 months, achieved data queries up to 7x faster, and used ML to identify 6x more cross-sell and upsell prospects than manual methods.

The Bank of Bahrain and Kuwait

Aisha Bushager

Head of Data and Analytics