Enterprise IT

Enterprise IT departments are faced with the challenge of having to lower overall IT costs while simultaneously being asked to focus on innovation and business growth. A key bottleneck is the time and expense required to maintain legacy, on-premise IT infrastructure. A typical Enterprise IT department spends the majority of their resources maintaining existing infrastructure, leaving little time to invest in the new IT projects that the business demands to drive innovation.

AWS provides a new approach by offering low-cost and elastic IT infrastructure delivered as a service over the Internet that reduces or eliminates the need for on-premise infrastructure. This new model allows IT organizations to reduce costs and increase agility by taking advantage of on-demand resources that require no up-front capital investment and can instantly scale from small test environments to large multi-million user production systems.

Video Case Studies

NASDAQ OMX reduced time-to-market for new applications threefold with AWS

S&P Capital IQ gained flexibility by running spiky applications on AWS

Customer Case Studies


Runs business applications 20 times faster on AWS	Reduced annual costs by 80% with AWS on-demand pricing	Samsung saved $34M with their Smart Hub application	Reduced time-to-market for marketing campaigns to weeks instead of months	Launched new in-flight entertainment system 6 months earlier

What the AWS Cloud Offers to Enterprises IT

Quickly add compute and storage capacity	AWS provides highly scalable computing infrastructure that enables customers to handle spiky workloads (cloud bursting) by dynamically allocating IT resources such as compute, storage, databases, networking, and other on-demand cloud services.
Lower TCO for your applications	AWS has reduced its prices 19 times in the last 5 years driven by fast innovation and global scale. With AWS, customers can save money by avoiding up-front capital expenses and paying only for resources they use. They can also save time and gain agility by reducing the time required to provision infrastructure from months or weeks to minutes. In fact, analyst research suggests that the TCO savings in the public cloud may be as high as 60% compared to a traditional enterprise datacenter.
Start small and grow as you need	AWS customers have control over their cloud adoption pace: they can start small using AWS for non-critical workloads and expand usage as their level of comfort and expertise increases. In reality, most enterprises running mission-critical production applications on AWS today started by deploying development & test environments or a few gigabytes of data to the AWS cloud.
Easy to move data & apps in and out	AWS provides an open and flexible platform that allows customers to move their data in and out anytime and run virtually any commercial application. With AWS, customers can choose the operating system, programming language, or database that makes the most sense for their businesses. AWS provides tools such as AWS Import/Export and VM Import to help customers migrate data and virtual machines images.
Built for enterprise security standards	AWS is a secure, durable technology platform with industry-recognized certifications and audits such as SOC 1 Type 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, FISMA Moderate, HIPAA, and ITAR compliant controls. AWS uses the same, proven approaches to security that enterprises have been using for decades including physical security, network separation, and server & storage isolation. AWS customers have control over their data: they own the data, not us; they can encrypt their data at rest and in motion, just as they would in their own infrastructure.
Global infrastructure for global enterprises	AWS offers a global cloud infrastructure platform that enables customers worldwide to provision computing resourcing on-demand. AWS is focused on expanding its global infrastructure to help customers achieve lower latency and better performance.
Easily connect existing datacenter	AWS customers can have the best of both worlds: they can leverage services like AWS Direct Connect and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud to build connections between their datacenters and the AWS Cloud and move workloads between them seamlessly.

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