Re:Thinking the AWS enterprise push on the eve of re:Invent

Companies are headlong into the deep end with diving AWS. But as re: Invent 2015 approach, the lack of control of the cloud still some concerns

In preparation for re: Invent 2015 annual user conference Amazon Web Services in Las Vegas next month, I sat down with Kris Bliesner, CTO clock and co-founder of the second, I managed public cloud provider based in Seattle AWS partner and to get your perspective on how things have changed in the business of AWS since last year and what surprises he saw.

In the category decidedly "not surprising" Organizations are becoming more aggressive with AWS time. "Last year there were a lot of rumors, but this year, people move their plans forward a good bit - the execution of acceleration," said Bliesner.

But what is surprising is the degree to which some stores AWS. Some are even braving the wind and ERP (ERP) SAP migration as AWS, Bliesner said.

It is not enough that AWS provides a type large enough to accommodate the massive ERP instance, or cloud security does not meet the needs of all implementations. Is that "it mammoth systems, cobwebs everywhere," said Bliesner. But ERP implementations slightly smaller makes more sense.

"The footprint of these systems in the scene is really difficult to handle, but they are difficult to prove, are difficult to update and patch," he said. "There are real to what you can do in a complex environment physical limits."

So for ERP, in particular, the cloud offers the advantage of "the infinite infrastructure" or elasticity that enables administrators to simply replicate entire environments, for example, when you upgrade. They may change after this instance once completed, avoiding investment in infrastructure capacity or overfilling planned downtime.

"There is so much money, it's about time," said Bliesner.

All this sounds great, but in the rush of companies to move to AWS, "also gave us a few steps back in terms of IT best practices," said Bliesner.

"Years ago, the control equipment is regulated well enough," he added. "You had long delays, sure, but we had rules that were approved by a team of enterprise architecture" These days, there are no rules -. And the results of insecurity platforms wrong size.

Many things go wrong when you go all-in too quickly. The costs are unpredictable and safety are not fully thought out.

"Leaders command to go all-in with the cloud, but they do not do the preliminary work to determine the rules - public cloud to use for the workload," he lamented. In many ways, "it is almost similar to the [VM] had spread back in the day."

Do not expect to do much hand holding AWS, either.

"Amazon is not the average of the company's enterprise software business. They pushed the issue of do-it-yourself too hard. But one day, people wake up and say," AWS said it would be easy, but do not is. "