Stuart Bell explains that how you think is key to how you migrate applications and exploit the cloud. He presents two frameworks that he's used personally in the context of adopting AWS.
Challenge for most businesses is their entry point, large organisations originating 15+ years ago are still managing legacy lifecycle and technology from that era
If you were to create your business today, from scratch how would it look?
Media & Entertainment (you could also consider Telco too linking my Sky experience as both) are inherently tech companies.
There is probably an orthodoxy in those sectors which creates a build mentality
Think of Media and Entertainment as similar to incumbent banks (the big 9) – been around for a while, had to build their own, entry point into technology different era, large, expensive momentum
I know what it was like to work in Media/Telco having spent 7 years at Sky, it wasn’t until I set foot in the outside world that I started to see things differently
Built CRM from the Chordiant framework
Mention the monotlith and cutting the elephant down to smaller parts, the six-week release cycle at Sky
Talk about how Global companies will threaten your local market, so while Netflix are US based and Sky are UK based, Netflix is increasingly stealing Sky’s market share
Cost of innovation is easier
Perception is that ‘cloud’ is somehow less secure than your own data centre
If that is the case then the FCA and other UK regulators are putting a lot of our economy at risk
There is maybe an argument that owning your own infrastructure means that you can de-risk mission-critical systems as you have complete control of that environment – however retail banking is increasingly moving to cloud based platforms which is an indicator that mission critical has been achieved with partners such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft
If Insights attempted to deploy into their own data centres it would be costly and time intensive
There is also something to do with your TOM where in-housing your own DC means a significant investment in internal skills
Cloud capability has become commodity and not a differentiator for most customers, but is vital to driving pace and efficiencies
Smaller to medium size businesses wouldn’t be able to compete without cloud
Moving to AWS is key for the above scenario to support resilience world-wide, but the greater prize is to allow Insights to leverage greater capabilities in AWS to allow them to become digitally competitive
Insights is at a good fork in the road where there is limited investment in infrastructure resources, leveraging the likes of AWS allows us to outsource and benefit from economies of scale
Talk about digital architecture, the importance of it and why Cloud plays such a big part of it
The need to have an API gateway or layer and an SOA/Microservices approach is key
Driving Pace, invest in build where it matters to your brand and product, invest in buy to keep the lights on
Cloud enables pace, devops and automation
Build vs Buy also lands in a similar space to on-prem vs cloud respectively