{"id":22296,"date":"2022-12-09T16:30:01","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T16:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/09\/three-insights-you-might-have-missed-from-the-aws-executive-summit-at-reinvent\/"},"modified":"2022-12-09T16:30:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T16:30:01","slug":"three-insights-you-might-have-missed-from-the-aws-executive-summit-at-reinvent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/09\/three-insights-you-might-have-missed-from-the-aws-executive-summit-at-reinvent\/","title":{"rendered":"Three insights you might have missed from the AWS Executive Summit at re:Invent"},"content":{"rendered":"

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During the recently-concluded AWS re:Invent gathering in Las Vegas, executive leaders from a broad cross-section of the enterprise world were given an opportunity to participate in The Executive Summit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Participants learned about the latest advancements and business outcomes generated through cloud computing. TheCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media\u2019s livestreaming studio, conducted a series of exclusive interviews<\/a> with executive leaders during the Summit, in addition to the nearly 100 livestreamed conversations from the main event<\/a> during the week.<\/p>\n

The Executive Summit interviews<\/a> with Amazon Web Services Inc. and Accenture PLC executives and customers covered a broad range of topics during the AWS re:Invent<\/a> conference. (* Disclosure below.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Here are three insights you might have missed:<\/p>\n

1. Cloud usage is reshaping the procurement and budgeting process for the U.S. Army.<\/h3>\n

While private industry has become accustomed to consuming cloud resources in a \u201cpay by the drink\u201d model, this process has been difficult to adopt<\/a> for U.S. government agencies. Federal government contracts are traditionally structured in a broad, fixed-priced model with little flexibility for purchasing specific cloud services.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Department of Defense is accustomed to buying hardware,\u201d said Paul Puckett<\/a> (pictured, right), director, enterprise cloud management agency for the U.S. Army, in an interview<\/a> with theCUBE. \u201cWe make these big bets on big things to live in datacenters, so when we talk about consuming cloud as a utility, there\u2019s a lot of fear there because you don\u2019t really understand how to pay for something by the drink. When you look at the budgeting process of the DoD, there really is not that much of an incentive for efficiency.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, though its work with Accenture Federal Services, the U.S. Army has embarked on a journey to better understand cloud costs and explore optimal ways to use specific resources.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a tool called CloudTracker we deployed for the Army at a number of different classifications, and you get a full 360 view of all your cloud utilization and cloud spend within 24 hours of it occurring,\u201d said Justin Shirk<\/a> (pictured, left), managing director and go-to-cloud market lead at Accenture Federal Services in a\u00a0conversation<\/a> with theCUBE. \u201cThat really enables better decision-making in terms of purchasing plans and reserved instances and other sorts of AWS-specific tools to help you save money.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s theCUBE\u2019s complete video interview with Paul Puckett and Justin Shirk:<\/p>\n