The range of use-cases and applications featured by the Enterprises participating at the Summit demonstrates that Amazon Web Services (AWS) is no longer limited to the Innovators and Early Adopters. Enterprises are already today moving their data-centres to the cloud in their entirety as well as using AWS for production E-Commerce and ERP applications.
Another notable speaker was Matthew Graham-Hyde, CIO of Kantar and author of upcoming title “The Essential CIO” to be published later this year. Graham-Hyde made the point that the use of AWS and other cloud technologies isn’t a technology conversation but a business conversation.
When asked what would you do differently if you could start again with AWS both speakers were emphatic in their response that they would go ‘deeper and faster than we have done’ and ‘go sooner” than they did - a strong recommendation bearing in mind that Channel 4 have been using AWS for 5 years already!
AWS are more than disruptive in this space with their policy of voluntarily offering price-reductions across the board to all of their customers no fewer than 37 times in the last 7 years! Some progressive organisations like News UK have already moved one third of all their servers to the cloud and are steadily working on the rest.
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