Jake Burns
AWS Enterprise Strategist
"Training your team and giving them the opportunity for hands-on experience is the key to succeeding with cloud."
-- Jake Burns

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Jake Burns, AWS Enterprise Strategist
Jake's career
Podcasts
Listen to our "Ask the AWS Strategists" mini-series within our Conversations with Leaders podcast, where Jake Burns, Ishit Vachhrajani, ,and Bryan Landerman discuss what they're hearing around the industry and common questions they get from customers.
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Podcast
Cloud Migration and Modernization Lessons Learned
A conversation with AWS Enterprise Strategists Jonathan Allen and Jake BurnsThis podcast features AWS enterprise strategists Jonathan Allen and Jake Burns discussing cloud migration insights. Drawing from their own extensive experience, they offer actionable guidance for organizations at any stage of migrating to the cloud. Key lessons include starting promptly, securing workforce buy-in, and maintaining simplicity. They dispel myths about migration complexity and emphasize speed's role in risk reduction. Technical advice covers efficient tool usage and minimal refactoring approaches. Practical tips include clear goal communication, strategic outsourcing, and starting with low-risk workloads.
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Vodcast
From Lagging to Leading: Navigating AI Adoption Challenges
AWS Enterprise Strategists provide a roadmap for organizations who may feel they've missed the first-mover advantage with generative AIIn this episode, AWS Enterprise Strategists provide a roadmap for organizations who may feel they've missed the first-mover advantage with generative AI. They share practical advice on overcoming common barriers like analysis paralysis, managing risk, and upskilling teams.
Listeners will learn how to unlock the true potential of generative AI by starting small, lowering the cost of failure, and leveraging the scalability and flexibility of the cloud, and get insight into a realistic, action-oriented perspective for organizations determined to catch up and thrive in the generative AI era.
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Calculating the Cost and ROI of Generative AI
Generative AI has the potential to revolutionize industries and organizations, but how much will it cost you, and how do you measure return on that investment? In this episode, get practical guidance on estimating the costs of generative AI adoption, from model selection to infrastructure requirements. Learn how to quantifying the productivity gains and efficiency improvements enabled by generative AI, strategies for upskilling your workforce, and advice on driving organization-wide adoption of generative AI capabilities.
Featuring three AWS Enterprise Strategists: Jake Burns, Helena Yin Koeppl, Chris Hennesey
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Blogs
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3P Article
What are some steps I can take to improve organizational resilience?
by Jake Burns, AWS Enterprise StrategistJake is an Enterprise Strategist at Amazon Web Services. In this role, Jake works with enterprise technology executives to share experiences and strategies for how the cloud can help them increase speed, agility, and customer centricity. In his previous role as VP of Cloud Services at Live Nation/Ticketmaster, Jake was responsible for enterprise-wide IT strategy and oversight of the infrastructure and support teams in North America, and led the company's cloud transformation including a successful all-in migration to AWS resulting in a 48% savings in total cost of ownership of IT.
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Blog
The Power of Constraints
by Jake Burns, Enterprise Strategist, AWSA constraint is a limitation that’s placed upon us. In this post we’ll look at three different types of constraints—time constraints, resource constraints, and guardrails—and explore how each of them can be used to drive innovation, speed, and efficiency.
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