Cloud drives freedom, control

October 8, 2015 Off By David

Grazed from ITWeb. Author: Admire Moyo.

Cloud computing gives organisations the freedom to control their own destinies. That was the word from Andy Jassy, senior VP at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Amazon Infrastructure, speaking during a keynote address at the AWS re:Invent Conference taking place in Las Vegas. There are about 19 000 delegates attending the event.

AWS, a collection of remote computing services, also called Web services, make up a cloud computing platform offered by Amazon.com. The most central and well-known of these services arguably include Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and Amazon S3. Amazon markets these products as a service to provide large computing capacity more quickly and cheaply than a client company building a physical server farm…

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