getting started on aws
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November 8 2016
Getting Started on AWS
Mike ClayvilleVP Worldwide Sales, Amazon Web Services
IT Modernisation & Digital Transformation Drivers
SURVIVAL
EFFICIENCY
TALENT“If you went to bed last night as an industrial company, you’re going to wake up this morning as a software and analytics company.”
Jeff Immelt, GE Chairman & CEO
GE is migrating 9000 workloads over to AWS
Intends to reduce the number of datacenters from 34 down to 4
Adopted a cloud-first strategy for client facing applications
Has seen a cost saving of around 60%, plus clear benefits of increased agility & reduced time to market
Created Superqueue to help them deal with high demand for their new Supercard
Now they are building their new customer data platform & data science capability on AWS
Has reduced capex £1.2m a year without increasing opexby using AWS
Increased from 1 release every 6 weeks to 10,000 updates in the last 3 months
Delivered greatly improved user experience & can cope with peaks in demand that are 30x normal levels
Cloud enabling the UK’s MOT service
Processing over 42m vehicle tests each year
Reducing operating costs by £100m over 10 years
Refocused IT resources on developing capabilities to win in the marketplace
Migrated SAP Instance for APC Business Operations
Increased reliability, improved performance
Successfully implemented their first production workload in under 2 months
Plan to migrate their entire front office to the cloud by the end of 2016
70 production applications plus 141 development environments moved to AWS
Delivering 30%-50% cost savings
Running a critical actuarial application, Prophet, on AWS
Reducing data centres from 8 to 3 by 2018
Running critical production workloads on AWS
Recognised that security is improved in the cloud