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Modi building Cloud-first approach to empower Indians: Top AWS official
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IANS | 12 Jun, 2019
For a country like India, the hope lies in a visionary leader like Prime
Minister Narendra Modi who is aiming to create a Cloud-first approach
towards skilling and digital transformation, thus empowering over a
billion people, says Teresa Carlson, Vice President, Worldwide Public
Sector, Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Carlson, who reports directly
to AWS CEO Andy Jassy and has been in India twice in recent times to
explore the government's digital transformation initiatives, hailed the
return of Modi government to power.
"Leaders like him understand
that they require transformative actions and sustainable economic
development models to drive the change which would eventually benefit
the masses.
"Adopting the secure Cloud-first approach is top
priority for governments the world over. Data is like currency because
that's where all the information and the opportunities lie, which can
make a real difference in the lives of millions of people," Carlson told
IANS on the sidelines of AWS Public Sector Summit attended by over
18,000 technologists here on Tuesday.
AWS is the Cloud arm of
retail giant Amazon. In the first quarter of 2019, AWS reported an
annualized revenue run rate of $31 billion, registering 41 per cent
(year-on-year) growth.
According to Carlson, who joined AWS in
2010 and organised the first Public Sector Summit with just 50 people
participating, it is high time for the Indian government to deploy
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning-driven Cloud models to make
sense of humongous sets of data -- analyse it, share it and parse out
the key insights to researchers and related stakeholders who could then
better help communities.
"I strongly feel that the Indian
government can unlock the potential of data-sets across the domain with
the help of AI and ML and use the models in ways that actually help
citizens in solving their real-life problems," emphasised Carlson, who
would be to New Delhi for the AWS Public Sector Summit in September.
Cloud today has become the new normal, she said, adding that when she
started the public sector Cloud business, customers didn't even really
understand what Cloud computing was.
"But today, not only do
they understand it, they actually choose it as their first choice.
They're making massive acquisitions around Cloud computing and
understand their ability to move quickly and scale up the workloads,"
Carlson told IANS.
Since launching AWS's public sector business
in 2010, Carlson has seen the client list growing from state, local and
central governments to educational institutions, ed-tech companies and
non-profit organisations.
Over 28,000 non-profit organisations globally are building a better world for millions on AWS Cloud.
"The customers today are using the Cloud-based technologies to
experiment, try out things and then scale it. They may face failures but
this helps them become builders. And that's really what has changed in
the last few years," she added.
In a bid to add more customers
in the growing Indian market, AWS last month announced the third
availability zone in its Mumbai Cloud Region.
The company
launched AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region with two availability zones in
2016 and has seen tremendous growth in adding new customers in the
region.
The AWS Cloud spans 66 Availability Zones within 21
geographic Regions around the world, with announced plans for 12 more
Availability Zones and four more Regions in Bahrain, Cape Town, Jakarta
and Milan.
According to Carlson, once the governments have
Cloud-first policy in place, "they need strong leadership to take steps
to push it forward.
"We've learned through experience that
unless you have leaders that really drive things forward for all the
right reasons like security, cost reduction, scalability, privacy and
rapid acceleration of citizen services, peoples' lives won't transform,"
Carlson told IANS.
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