Cloud Computing: Amazon’s Vogels on 21st-century apps and “IT life events”

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Derrick Harris.

AWS CTO Werner Vogels and I sat down at the AWS re:Invent conference yesterday to talk about whether large companies are actually using the cloud to innovate through new styles of applications. Vogels says they are, and has plenty of examples to prove his point. Maybe big businesses really do understand cloud computing after all.

When I sat down with Amazon CTO Werner Vogels at the Amazon Web Services re:Invent conference on Wednesday, we began the discussion by talking about applications designed to take advantage of everything the cloud has to offer in terms of control, resiliency and programmability — what Vogels calls 21st-century architectures. It’s great in theory but, I asked, “Who’s actually building these apps?”…

Mainly, I was concerned with whether AWS has been able to prod the enterprise customers it so desperately desires into adopting Vogels’s design principles for their applications. Often times, any discussion about “enterprise cloud computing” begins and ends with whether they can run their legacy SAP applications on cloud servers…

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