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Gus Bessalel

If You Start Me Up... Doing Business on AWS

The greatest opportunity for Amazon Web Services to grow in the short term lies in convincing large enterprises to move their computing into the cloud. Given the sheer volume of enterprise on-premise installations, AWS is counting on the incremental, and in many cases wholesale, migration of legacy operations to the cloud to fuel the next phase of its explosive growth. But despite this being the year of the enterprise at this month's AWS re:Invent conference, the drumbeat of AWS as a fertile ground for startups remained loud and steady. Everybody understands the rationale for cloud computing: no capital investment, near infinite scaling, and a constellation of ancillary services to address security, analytics, storage, and other requirements. It is now possible to build a substantial...