Amazon CTO Vogels on competing with Microsoft in hybrid cloud, keeping partners and customers happy

Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Brandon Butler.

Werner Vogels joined Amazon.com in 2004 and a year later became CTO. During the past decade he helped define the public infrastructure as a service cloud market. To do so, Amazon Web Services built a massive network of data centers around the world, which to this day continues to grow rapidly. This month at the AWS Summit in New York, Network World Senior Editor Brandon Butler spoke with Vogels about the state of the cloud industry, challenges facing AWS, its relationships with partners and customers, and what he’s learned from growing AWS into the business it is today.

Amazon Web Services is credited by many as the market-leader in the public IaaS market, but Microsoft is hot on your tail. One of the key differentiators for Microsoft Azure is its focus on the hybrid cloud. What are you doing to support hybrid cloud computing? Customers have made major investments in their infrastructure, so that will not disappear overnight…

Though some of our customers are going all-in with the cloud; Conde Naste, for example closed their last data center. NewsCorp has reduced from 66 data centers to six and moved everything else into AWS. Some workloads cannot move yet because they’re tied to particular hardware. So, we’ll live for a while in this world where the majority of things live in the cloud, but some things still live on premises…

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