AWS Cloud Enterprise Strategy Blog
Oil and Gas Companies Get Practical about Cloud Innovation to Digitally Transform
By Eddie Murray, Global Oil & Gas Leader, Amazon Web Services Introduction by Mark Schwartz, Enterprise Strategist, AWS As my colleague Miriam McLemore says, large enterprises have innovation in their DNA. There was something innovative they did that got them to be big enterprises in the first place, and probably many innovations along the way. […]
Read MoreIs Your Walled Garden Nourishing or Stunting Your Digital Transformation?
by Jeanine Banks, General Manager, Industry & ISV Solutions at AWS Introduction by Mark Schwartz In another take on the question of risk and controls, Jeanine Banks, from our Product Management organization, shows how companies moving into the digital age are often focused on the wrong risks and build walls and controls that stifle innovation. […]
Read MoreCloud Anti-Pattern: Guardians at the Gate
Guardian Photo In one of my previous posts, I wrote about how the choice and selection provided by AWS Cloud is a good thing for builders versus the perception that too many services cause confusion. The point I made is that we are in an era where we should expect to see the creation […]
Read MoreOn Failure: A conversation with today’s enterprise cloud leaders
Last month, we published a series of video interviews with C- level executives on their approaches to people and culture, while leading their organizations through the cloud journey. In this blog series I’m summarizing these perspectives, to share what I think are key lessons from these insightful discussions. In my last blog, I focused on the theme […]
Read MoreDatabase Freedom: Let’s Take Off Our Database Blinders—For Good
Live blog post from re:Invent 2018, Las Vegas For decades, enterprises have thought of data in terms of the relational database model. It is a brilliant model and has solved many of the data-handling problems of early IT. With a normalized database schema, we could reduce redundancy and bring out the relationships between data items […]
Read MoreDesigned for the Cloud
Live blog post from re:Invent 2018, Las Vegas One consistent theme in Werner Vogels’s keynote speech at re:Invent yesterday was that products designed for the cloud are very different from those designed for on-premises hardware. In the first waves of migration to the cloud and cloud-first delivery of new systems, it was natural for all […]
Read MoreAWS Control Tower and AWS Security Hub, powerful enterprise twins
Live blog post from re:Invent 2018, Las Vegas As an AWS Enterprise Strategist I travel the globe talking to some of the largest enterprise customers on the planet about how they can truly innovate faster and deliver a much better customer experience by migrating their systems to AWS and in the process remove massive amounts […]
Read MoreGet a Lean Start with the Cloud Using the Cloud Strategy Canvas
In many cases, enterprises that have undertaken a major move to the cloud first got started by learning and experimenting with the migration of a single application. This smaller step allowed them to gain confidence with the technology, economics, and skill sets that are part of a bigger leap into the cloud. But with hundreds […]
Read MoreCloud Gives Miners a Path to Innovate
by Jonathon Dixon, Global Head of Mining and Resources, Amazon Web Services Foreword by Thomas Blood: In a preface to another mining-related post, I had mentioned that until the 1930s, my family owned and operated gold, silver, and copper mines in the United States. What I did not mention is why my family no longer owns […]
Read MoreAWS Outposts – a new dimension to AWS Cloud
Live blog post from re:Invent 2018, Las Vegas As an AWS Enterprise Strategist I travel the globe talking to some of the largest enterprise customers on the planet about how they can truly innovate faster and deliver a much better customer experience by migrating their systems to AWS and in the process remove massive amounts […]
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