AWS is leading IT’s reinvention in the cloud

October 13, 2015 Off By David

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: David Linthicum.

AWS Re:Invent 2015 is now a memory — a good memory for Amazon Web Services fans and a bad memory for AWS’s competition. Other providers in the market hoped that AWS would slow down or stumble. That’s not happening — AWS had the right list of cloud services from the start, and it’s been expanding them in the right order as the latest Re:Invent has shown, from the Internet of things to improvements in container management.

Once upon a time, some of us thought AWS would have trouble getting into Global 2000 companies because its sales approach did not mesh well with enterprises that required a high-touch selling process. But AWS adapted, and now AWS is systemic to most cloud strategies in large corporate IT shops. Four years ago, who’d have thunk it?…

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