This document summarizes Esri's partnership with Amazon to deliver the ArcGIS platform in the cloud. Some key benefits of deploying ArcGIS on Amazon Web Services include immediate infrastructure, fast deployment, scalability, and cost savings. Examples are given of how ArcGIS has been successfully deployed on AWS for disaster response, public event mapping, and a yacht tracking application. The partnership provides customers with simplified and elastic management of GIS infrastructure and resources in the cloud.