UPDATED 01:57 EDT / APRIL 19 2017

CLOUD

What to expect from the AWS Summit: Can Amazon Web Services move into the data center?

Amazon Web Services dominates the public cloud computing market, but it doesn’t yet have a solution for customers that want the economics and versatility of clouds in their private data centers.

On Wednesday at its AWS Summit in San Francisco, the company is expected to offer some insights into how AWS and its partners aim to take the public cloud into the enterprise. SiliconANGLE will be broadcasting live, exclusive interviews with industry leaders at the summit from its roving news desk, theCUBE.

Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud business saw an impressive increase of 47 percent in fourth quarter sales. Despite the jump, though, it missed the $3.6 billion Wall Street was expecting, and it was the lowest rise AWS has seen in two years. AWS, however, still maintains a market share of 40 percent in the infrastructure- and platform-as-a-service categories, according to a report from Synergy Research Group Inc.

AWS has shown significant growth over the past decade, and according to a report published by Wikibonowned by the same parent company as SiliconANGLE, it will continue its growth, reaching an estimated $43 billion by 2022. While Wikibon analysts Peter Burris, David Floyer and Ralph Finos predict that while AWS will get very big by 2022, it won’t be hugely dominant, accounting for about 8.2 percent of all cloud business in the same time frame, a bit less than it does today.

Over the past few months, AWS has launched various new cloud services. At its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas in December, Amazon announced new features for developers, DevOps staff and chief information officers, including Lambda@Edge, Amazon Pinpoint, AWS Batch, AWS Shield and AWS Glue.

The company followed up with Amazon Cloud Directory, a developer-focused managed service that allows for the storage of large amounts of strongly typed hierarchical data. Then it launched its cloud video conferencing service, Amazon Chime, in February. Amazon’s latest announcement is the launch of Amazon Connect, a cloud-based contact center billed by the minute.

This year’s AWS Summit San Francisco could also shed more light on the partnership between AWS and private cloud software maker VMware Inc. The partnership, announced in October, would allow VMware customers to move their computing jobs to AWS’ cloud and take advantage of more flexible and low-cost storage. VMware Cloud on AWS is set to be available in mid-2017.

Challenges

While AWS is growing at a significant pace, that’s not to say it isn’t facing any challenges. AWS had a nearly five-hour outage in February, which saw a significant portion of the internet affected when a couple of servers where accidentally removed. This outage raised concerns that we have created too much of a dependency on services like AWS and that the cloud should be decentralized, according to Yaron Haviv, co-founder and chief technology officer of iguazio Systems Ltd.

As the cloud market fragments, AWS is facing other challenges and stiff competition, according to Burris. When it comes to the migration of legacy workloads, AWS has strong tools and has completed numerous successful migrations, but competitors, such as Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp. and IBM Corp., are building cloud environments specifically designed to support migrations. Microsoft has the strongest support so far, said Burris.

Another high-growth area is Industrial Internet of Things, which Burris expects will pull the hybrid cloud to the edge rather than drive further centralization of processing. No vendor has built a commanding lead in the IIoT market, and although AWS is a player, it lacks an on-premises hybrid cloud solution. There is time for AWS to establish itself in that market, but it will face strong competition.  

How to watch theCUBE interviews

There are various ways to watch all of theCUBE interviews that will be taking place at the AWS Summit, including SiliconANGLE TV and YouTube. You can also get all the coverage from the event on SiliconANGLE.

TheCUBE’s coverage starts Wednesday at 11 a.m. till 6 p.m. PDT.

SiliconANGLE TV

You can watch all of theCUBE’s exclusive interviews and commentary from the AWS Summit on the dedicated SiliconANGLE TV page.

Watch on the SiliconANGLE YouTube channel

All of theCUBE interviews from this year’s AWS Summit will also be loaded onto SiliconANGLE’s dedicated YouTube channel.

Cubecasts

SiliconANGLE also has podcasts available of archived interview sessions, available on both SoundCloud and iTunes, which you can enjoy while on the go.

Guests who will be interviewed on theCUBE

Guests who will be interviewed on theCUBE at the AWS Summit include Brian Goldfarb, chief marketing officer of Splunk Inc.; Greg Benson, chief scientist at SnapLogic Inc.; Lowell Anderson, product marketing at AWS; and Kalyan Ramanathan, vice president of product marketing at Sumo Logic Inc.

Other guests on theCUBE include Prakash Janakiraman, co-founder and chief architect at Nextdoor.com Inc.; K Young, director of strategic initiatives at Datadog Inc.; and Eric Pan, senior director of marketing at Equinix Inc.

How to watch coverage of AWS Summit

If you were unable to attend AWS Summit in San Francisco, you can watch the keynote sessions from the comfort of your home or office.

The AWS Summit will livestream the keynote from Werner Vogels, chief technology officer at Amazon, which starts at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday through 11 a.m. PDT. In addition to launch announcements, the keynote will also include customer stories from Julia Grace, head of infrastructure engineering at Slack Technologies Inc. and Janakiraman from Nextdoor.com, Inc.

The event will also livestream a session with Andy Jassy, chief executive officer of AWS and Amazon Infrastructure. This session runs from 1:15 p.m. Wednesday to 2:15 p.m. PDT.

You can register for the livestream on the official AWS Summit page.

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