Amazon CTO Details Cloud Computing Commandments

Grazed from Datamation. Author: Sean Michael Kerner.

Werner Vogels, the CTO of Amazon, has learned a thing or two over the years about what it takes to build a 21st century architecture. Speaking at the Amazon re:invent conference, Vogels detailed his commandments for modern IT architecture during a keynote session. For the CTO of Amazon, modern IT architecture is about the cloud and not being constrained by physical hardware.

Vogels admitted that he has somewhat of a love/hate relationship with physical hardware servers. He said that he has tried to hug servers to get them to do what he wanted. "Believe you and me, I’ve hugged servers enough in my life and they do not hug you back," Vogels said. "They hate you."…

The cloud changes the dynamic, though, and instead of being resource constrained, IT can move to a fully programmable model. The commandments that Vogels has for IT involve understanding that IT infrastructure is in fact controllable, resilient, adaptive and data driven…

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