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Alexander Summa

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Lead Architect Mercedes-Benz Group AG

After completing his PhD in physics, Alexander Summa worked as a research associate at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, where he studied stellar explosions by performing large-scale simulations on European supercomputers. In 2017, he joined Mercedes-Benz as a Senior Data Scientist, implementing data and AI use cases for various business units across the organization. He supported the development of the big data and analytics platform for Mercedes in Azure as a solution and data architect. In his current role as Lead Architect, he is responsible for the internal data sharing platform and the multi-cloud Databricks setup at Mercedes-Benz.

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Cross-Cloud Data Mesh with Delta Sharing and UniForm in Mercedes-Benz

In this presentation, we'll show how we achieved a unified development experience for teams working on Mercedes-Benz Data Platforms in AWS and Azure. We will demonstrate how we implemented Azure to AWS and AWS to Azure data product sharing (using Delta Sharing and Cloud Tokens), integration with AWS Glue Iceberg tables through UniForm and automation to drive everything using Azure DevOps Pipelines and DABs. We will also show how to monitor and track cloud egress costs and how we present a consolidated view of all the data products and relevant cost information. The end goal is to show how customers can offer the same user experience to their engineers and not have to worry about which cloud or region the Data Product lives in. Instead, they can enroll in the data product through self-service and have it available to them in minutes, regardless of where it originates.