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Amazon Wants to Replace the Enterprise Data Center

2 pointsby boynamedsueabout 10 years ago

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matt_sabout 10 years ago
Working at BigCo doing work with our internal enterprise data centers that are spread globally a few concerns would come up.<p>- How secure are the AWS offerings in comparison to a company&#x27;s internal offerings?<p>- How cost effective is it? If a company&#x27;s internal cost is the same monthly rate, roughly speaking, transitioning from internally hosted to AWS would be a huge effort and could take many years. Case in point is Netflix transitioning to AWS took a few years and they are &quot;new&quot; compared to larger older companies.<p>- A huge amount of re-architecting applications would need to occur to work on AWS for nearly any company. These are critical apps that were written a decade ago but keep the bits flowing on old technology.<p>The plus side for a big company would be for new projects. It takes eons to get infrastructure and storage for something - like months. If I could fire up VM&#x27;s and storage in a day or two, projects would move insanely faster.