How would you pitch AWS to your CIO?
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VP of Engineering in Education2 years ago
The key points in favor of AWS are: * Oldest offering: That means most use cases and most experience
* Eating own dog food: Amazon itself runs on AWS.
* Variety: More choices.
* Global reach.
Chair and Professor, Startup CTO in Education2 years ago
AWS is the most mature cloud and is more secure than any other cloud service. It is cost effective and needs minimal effort to migrate. CTO in Healthcare and Biotech2 years ago
Think about what they care about. Security, availability, automated compliance, a slider for cost via increasingly managed services, all of these are of paramount importance to the cio. Having a concrete plan and architecture that utilizes aws to promote specific capabilities and design choices is always the way forward. Chief Technology Officer in Healthcare and Biotech2 years ago
I'd approach it by appealing to the CIO agenda, namely they want to innovate, but they also have to maintain systems. Ideally, it'd be 80% innovation and 20% maintenance, but the reality is that will be inverted - i.e. 80% maintenance. And, of course, during a cost crunch it's the innovation stream which suffers.By contrast, if the CIO adopts cloud technologies they change the game. All the effort spent on buying, owning, running servers goes away. They can spin up machines as needed and tear them down. They can experiment and 'fail fast' and shut down infrastructure. They can change the IT team from running boxes to working on business projects.
Additionally, what are the things on your CIO's roadmap? What do they want to achieve? Invariably, these things become more possible with cloud technologies.
So - that's my view; appeal to the CIO agenda in general and appeal to the CIO's roadmap specifically.
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