Challenges & Solutions
Challenges
- Attorney-client privilege requires strict data access controls
- eDiscovery data sets can be petabytes in size
- Cross-border data sovereignty restrictions on client data
- Secure client portals with MFA and audit logging required
- AI-powered legal research needs GPU compute on demand
CloudFormation Solves
- Lake Formation row-level access for matter-level data isolation
- S3 + Glacier for cost-efficient eDiscovery data preservation
- Regional deployments with data residency enforcement
- API Gateway + Cognito MFA client portal scaffolded instantly
- Spot GPU instances for legal AI model training on demand
Architecture Patterns
Document Management
S3 with Object Lock for evidence preservation. Textract for document OCR and classification. OpenSearch for full-text legal document search across millions of files.
eDiscovery Platform
S3 Intelligent-Tiering for petabyte-scale evidence storage. Batch processing with Fargate for document review workflows. Relativity or Nuix integration via API.
Client Collaboration Portal
API Gateway + Lambda + Cognito MFA. Secure document sharing with presigned S3 URLs. CloudFront for fast global access. All access logged to CloudTrail.
Legal AI Assistant
SageMaker for contract analysis and legal research ML models. Bedrock for LLM-powered legal brief drafting. OpenSearch vector store for case law semantic search.
Business Outcomes
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