GDPR-Compliant Healthcare Data Pipeline is an AWS-native solution designed to process over 10 million daily health records while ensuring compliance with GDPR Article 17, also known as the Right to Erasure. This robust data pipeline leverages a variety of AWS services to provide a secure, efficient, and scalable solution for healthcare data management.

Key Features

• GDPR Compliance: Ensures data erasure within a 2-minute SLA using a Lambda-based handler and Athena CTAS.
• Privacy by Design: Implements salted SHA-256 pseudonymization to protect sensitive data.
• Security: Utilizes customer-managed KMS keys, VPC endpoints, and zero public internet traversal for enhanced security.
• Infrastructure as Code: Deploys using CloudFormation for consistent and repeatable infrastructure management.
• Full Audit Trail: Maintains comprehensive logs in DynamoDB and CloudWatch for auditing purposes.

Architecture

• Ingestion: Data is ingested through Kinesis Firehose and stored in S3 as raw data.
• Processing: AWS Glue ETL processes data, storing curated results in S3 and Redshift Serverless.
• Compliance: A Lambda-based erasure handler ensures compliance with GDPR requirements.

Performance Benchmarks

The pipeline achieves an ETL throughput of over 8,500 records per second at production scale, with a unit cost of $0.00005 per record. Monthly costs range from $3,000 to $4,200 for production environments.