Hybrid Cloud Should Benefit You, Not Bezos
The Next Platform, February 9th, 2023
We have always been convinced, and remain so, that there is no way that the largest organizations in the world will move their computing to one of the big cloud builders. And ten years ago, when Amazon Web Services was still relatively small and yet growing fast enough to scare the heck out of those who sell IT infrastructure or make its components, the current chief executive officer of Amazon and the former head of its cloud division was fond of saying that 'in the fullness of time' all workloads would move to the cloud.
One of the earliest references we can find for this statement is here, and we remember being at the November 2016 re:Invent conference - a press conference after the keynote, to be precise - and sitting right in front of Jassy in the front row and saying that, while that was an interesting statement, there was no way in hell this was going to happen. (We may have used more colorful language than that.) But that has been the party line from AWS since that time, until Jassy came on the call with Wall Street last week to go over the company's overall financial results for the fourth quarter.