Moving enterprise applications to a cloud computing environment is a growing trend. At a recent Amazon Web Services (AWS) event in London, some of the company’s customers discussed their decisions around moving to the cloud — why they did it, what worked, and their suggestions for organisations planning to follow a similar path.
The need for speed
“Being conservative has been a huge advantage in our industry until now,” said Andrew Brem, chief digital officer at insurance company Aviva. “But that isn’t going to do for us in the future,” he said. Aviva has migrated a large portion of its IT portfolio to the cloud with AWS.
