Dr. Werner Vogels gives his state of the cloud speech at GigaOm’s Structure 2011 conference.  Rather than tweet all content on the Twitter stream, I’ve added the live blogging notes.

Notes:

• Cloud has nothing to do with technology, some tech pieces, but cloud is all defined by its benefits
• Has to lower costs, more importantly has to increase agility (reduce TTM and remove constraints)…this is way more important
• Cloud removes the heavy lifting of undifferentiated services
• Cloud is foundation for 21^st century architectures…using OTS components you can build higher quality apps that you couldn’t do before
• Massive innovation in 2010…very close relationship with customers, small business units work closely with customer and relentless approach to improving service, immediate release of functions, no major launches
• Moving away from picture of a stack, just a model, really outdated
• Cloud is much more than services, it is a whole collection of pieces from many different ecosystems

o    Can no longer can be defined by strict layers,many apps pull services from all over the place and connect them together

• 5 regions now, very important for fault tolerance

o    Have to use AZs to build survivable apps

• Close to 339b objects in S3, just at the beginning of growth here, peak requests +200,000/second
• Each day AWS adding as much capacity as Amazon.com the retailer needed in the year 2000
• The AWS Mission

o    “Enable business and developers to use web services to build scalable, sophisticated applications”…5-6 yrs ago at launch

o    Sophisticated apps

§   Developers and businesses are building increasingly sophisticated apps in the cloud

§   Secure, scalable, reliable, fault tolerant, guaranteed performant and efficient

§   Early biz building highly fault tolerant apps…multiple AZ, DBs, load balancers

• Not that complex but can survive whole range of failure scenarios

o    Chaos monkey

§   Randomly shoots some of other sw components, tests ability to survive continuous failures

§   Enables building of much more sophisticated apps

• New tech services

o    Amazon RDS…customers wanted to be able to failover across AZs, have added multi-AZ deployments

• Most enterprise world is buying instead of building

o    Both oracle and SAP certified sw for production on AWS cloud

o    Oracle eBusiness suite very simple, HA, solution on AWS w/o custom components

• 11/10/10

o    On this date 100% of Amazon.com traffic was served out of AWS, from this point on all traffic from .com is served out of AWS

o    Required next gen of virtual private cloud software

• 2011 priorities

o    Add more geos

o    Make it easier to build and manage apps on AWS

o    Release new DB offerings

o    Broaden support offerings

o    Add billing, user mgmt and identity