Andy Jassy’s 10 Boldest Statements At AWS re:Invent 2020
‘If you look in the enterprise technology space, there are some providers who are competitor-focused,’ Jassy said. ‘They look at what their competitors are doing, and they try to fast-follow and one-up them. We have a competitor like that across the lake from us here in Washington.’
Constant reinvention is the key to building a long-term, sustainable business, and organizations should be reinventing while they’re healthy and developing products and services that solve customer problems, not for their coolness factor, according to Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy.
“You want to be reinventing all the time,” Jassy said in his keynote address for the start of the AWS re:Invent 2020 conference today. “Some of it is building the right reinvention culture, and some of it is knowing what technology is available to you and jumping on it to make that reinvention happen.”
Livestreaming from Seattle, Jassy took the stage to open the ninth annual AWS partner and customer conference – the first to be held virtually – to share his cloud computing insights and how AWS is reinventing cloud technologies.
A big takeaway from Jassy’s keynote address is that digital transformation is mostly about leadership, not about technology, according to Mike Kavis, chief cloud architect for Deloitte Consulting.
“Jassy pounded home the need to address culture, focus on customers, reduce complexity and the importance of speed,” Kavis said…
https://www.crn.com/slide-shows/cloud/andy-jassy-s-10-boldest-statements-at-aws-re-invent-2020
CANNOT SAY THANK YOU ENOUGH BAKER