When some 9,000 people descended on Las Vegas last week for AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services put a stake in the ground and successfully positioned themselves as THE world-class IT infrastructure goliath.
Through a combination of statistics, testimonials and dozens of infrastructure-oriented sessions AWS successfully proved their dominance of web services. Just how far ahead is AWS in this space? Here are 6 incredible stats from the confab:
- According to Gartner, AWS has 5 times more deployed cloud infrastructure as their next 14 competitors have...in aggregate
- In a day, AWS adds as much new infrastructure as they had used to run the entire Amazon business when it was a $7B business
- 45% of AWS partners are also Microsoft certified partners
- AWS supports over 600 government agencies and 2400 .edus
- AWS’ security certification and compliance list is jaw-droppingly long. With every credential out there from SSAE16 to FedRAMP to HIPAA it’s no wonder they are the provider of choice to security-conscious organizations
- AWS partner, Netflix, accounts for up to ⅓ of Internet traffic during peak usage times
Notably, AWS demonstrated that this dominance has been achieved not only by solving truly difficult challenges with best-in-class technology, but by ensuring customers are insanely happy. Andy Jassy, the head of AWS, delivered a superb keynote, but it was the rabid fan endorsements delivered by companies like DowJones, Suncorp, NASDAQ, Adobe, Netflix, and more that carried the biggest punch.
Customers were able to quantify and articulate the impact AWS has had on their businesses and the level of satisfaction - indeed, outright joy - it has brought them. Good luck to their competitors. It was powerful stuff and something all companies who aspire to leadership in their own markets would do well to strive to achieve.
Hats off to AWS for a solid conference and a truly impressive performance. By freeing Saas clients (like Smartsheet) from the burden of infrastructure management, they are enabling a greater focus on the core product. We look forward to what they have in store next.
As Andy Jassy quotes in his keynote speech:
Watch the keynote here: