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Puneet Chandok, President of Commercial Business, AWS India & South Asia, in an exclusive interaction with Arjun Yadav of BW Businessworld, reflects on certain contemporary themes in cloud computing, the macroeconomic uncertainty around the world and how it will impact cloud spending

- Arjun Yadav

What are some of the contemporary themes that stand out in cloud computing and how is AWS addressing them?

There are two or three themes that stand out. The first one is how do we simplify and make it easier for people to manage and analyse their data? How do we streamline data collection, data management and data administration? And ultimately, we are doing all this because businesses and users want insights. The Amazon DataZone and AWS Clean Rooms address these concerns. Then many customers in India are now thinking about security differently because you have data coming in through different unstructured sources. AWS Security Lake helps them automatically build a data lake and get all the data together on security, allowing them to detect, manage, control, and so on. The second thing we are looking at is the focus on industry solutions. Cloud brings the best of building tools for developers, but we are also looking at how we solve the biggest problems that our industries face. Third, of course, is sustainability. Our water pledge is that by 2030 we will be net positive, meaning that we will return more water than what we use for our infrastructure.

Could you give some examples of AWS’ industry focused solutions?

If you look at the last two or three years, we assumed that supply chains work in a certain way, but we never had the visibility and transparency we needed. For example, there were shortages across infrastructure, hardware etc. We are now trying to create this supply chain solution, which helps you bring all your supply chain data together that brings a ton of visibility into where things are, allowing you to do analysis and forecasting.