Bridging data silos: cross-bounded context querying with Vanguard’s Operational Read-only Data Store (ORDS) using Amazon Redshift
					
						
						October 6, 2025
					
					
						
						16 min read
					
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					SkillMX Editorial Desk
									
				
				
				At Vanguard, we faced significant challenges with our legacy mainframe system. Our centralized database architecture created performance bottlenecks and made it difficult to scale services independently. To address these architectural challenges, we chose to use Amazon Redshift as our Operational Read-only Data Store.