Jonathan Allen
AWS Enterprise Strategist
"All of your assumed constraints are debatable."
-- Jonathan Allen

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Jonathan Allen, AWS Enterprise Strategist
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Database Freedom Is Real: The Autodesk Story
by Jonathan Allen, Enterprise Strategist, AWSAs a previous customer and current enterprise strategist for Amazon Web Services (AWS), I’ve seen that although no two companies are the same, IT challenges are extremely similar across the industry spectrums.
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Guest Blog: The Consolidated Audit Trail and the Cloud
by Jonathan Allen, Enterprise Strategist, AWSFinancial institutions are already leveraging the scale and agility of the AWS Cloud to build data lakes, run large scale analytics, and accelerate machine learning adoption. More recently, they are also using services like AWS PrivateLink to connect and transfer data both within their own organization and with other organizations with a presence in the AWS Cloud. AWS PrivateLink uses AWS’s internal network connectivity instead of the public internet to ensure secure connectivity (think of it like a virtual cross connect). Not only are financial data providers such as Bloomberg leveraging AWS PrivateLink to distribute real-time market data to its customers, but financial regulators such as FINRA are also leveraging AWS PrivateLink as a connectivity option for broker-dealers to securely send their order and transaction data to comply with the CAT reporting regulation.
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Creating the Cloud Business Office
by Jonathan Allen, Enterprise Strategist, AWSMany modern enterprises are a maelstrom of emotions, facts, opinions, and in many cases, outright competition both inside and outside of the organization. The bigger the business, the bigger the challenge for leaders to set and execute a common strategy. This is especially true when looking to reap the benefits of moving to Cloud. When you suddenly remove a huge amount of undifferentiated heavy lifting, pay attention to being customer-obsessed, and focus on the data and logic required of technology to deliver this end, some people are going to feel intimidated at best and hostile at worst for what this means to them personally. This FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) can be magnified in the move to Cloud, because it cuts across so many paradigms and existing job roles.
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