Adam Selipsky, CEO of Amazon Web Services (AWS), has outlined his vision for the future of cloud computing and technology as a whole, with AI unsurprisingly set to play a key role.
During his keynote at the company’s AWS re:Invent 2023 event in Las Vegas, Selipsky noted that he believes “the cloud is for everyone.”
Selipsky covered a host of new product and service announcements and also took several small swipes at his company’s cloud rivals, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, suggesting neither has the capacity that AWS does.
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“Others would have you think that all clouds are the same – that’s just not true,” Selipsky continued, highlighting that AWS has three times as many data centers compared to the next closest cloud provider, 60% more services and 40% more features.
“Our customers solve big problems, meet critical needs and invent the world’s next big thing – so they count on us to be secure, reliable, innovate quickly, delight their customers and enable new ways to grow their businesses – all on AWS.”
Selipsky noted that AWS’s global infrastructure now spans 32 geographic regions around the world, “with plans for five more… no other cloud provider offers that.”
“We are relentless in working backwards from our customers’ needs and their pain points… and we are the safest and most reliable. But we also think differently about our customers’ problems and their potential, and this has made us pushed to reinvent the system, constantly, to break the barriers of what people thought was possible so that you can do the same.”
“Reinvention is in our DNA and drives us every day – after all, this is how cloud computing was born!”