AWS Cloud Value Proposition
The value proposition of AWS can be summed up in five benefits that most companies can realize: cost savings by scaling systems and eliminating waste, increasing staff productivity, enhancing operational resilience against disruptions, improving business agility by enabling quick resource provisioning, and minimizing environmental impact through sustainability initiatives.
AWS Cloud Economics developed the Cloud Value Framework to help organizations build a comprehensive business case for cloud by measuring and tracking progress against five key dimensions of value: cost savings, staff productivity, operational resilience, business agility, and sustainability. In this paper, we share how the AWS Cloud is transforming business through an analysis of these five aspects of business value. The data is based on over 1,500 public AWS case studies and examination of 15 operational and financial KPIs.
AWS customers realize business value in five key areas:
- Cost savings through a system that scales to meet performance requirements and eliminate waste
- Increased staff productivity in strategic, differentiating areas
- Operational resilience that protects against hardware failures, natural disasters, and power outages
- Developers can instantly provision resources and begin writing code for innovative new applications or services, improving business agility
- Minimizing the environmental impact of business operations through sustainability initiatives
Download the ebook for an in-depth look at these five dimensions of the Cloud Value Framework and get a better sense for the AWS cloud value proposition.
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