Adrian Cockcroft talks about the differences and similarities in moving different companies to the cloud, from Netflix to BMW. The Wall Street Journal’s Jay Greene spoke to Adrian Cockcroft, vice president of cloud architecture strategy at Amazon Web Services and a former executive at Netflix. A few years ago, people said, “We’re not just trying to move a few applications to the cloud. But when you’re trying to move data to the cloud, now you need 100 gigabits for a month. MR. GREENE: I was at Oracle ’s Open World event a few months back and Larry Ellison said that they were jumping into cloud infrastructure.

Source: Wall Street Journal March 07, 2017 03:03 UTC