Amazon cloud boss talks enterprise adoption

Grazed from SiliconAngle. Author: Maria Deutscher.

Andy Jassy, Amazon’s vice president of cloud computing, dedicated his entire keynote address at last week’s AWS Summit to the needs of corporate customers and his firm’s efforts to address them. That speaks to how far the online retailer has come in its public cloud journey, which started in 2006 with the launch of what was then a bare-bone infrastructure-as-a-service platform aimed primarily at developers.

Today, AWS has over five times more compute capacity deployed than the 14 nearest competitors combined, Jassy highlighted after stepping up to the podium. A sizable portion of that is in use by enterprise users who are growing increasingly frustrated with traditional on-premise approaches to provisioning IT resources, the first of the four factors Amazon views as the key drivers of cloud adoption…

Faster proof-of-concept

“Anybody that does a lot of invention will tell you that the two most important things are: you have to be able to try a lot of experiments, and if those experiments fail – and many of them should fail if you’re really pushing the envelope – you don’t want to leave with the collateral damage of failed experiments,” Jassy said….

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