Amazon Executive: Cloud Computing the Most Secure Way to Run Corporate Computing
October 25 2016 - 12:29PM
Dow Jones News
By Jay Greene
LAGUNA BEACH, Calif.- -- Amazon.com Inc.'s top cloud computing
executive said that even with last week's massive internet outages,
the web remains the most secure place for companies to run their
computing.
Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy said that for most companies,
security is "priority zero."
"You can't pass go without it," Mr. Jassy said during an
appearance at The Wall Street Journal's WSJDLive 2016 global
technology conference.
On Friday, attackers unleashed several massive attacks that
rendered dozens of popular websites, including Twitter Inc. and
Netflix Inc., unreachable for parts of the day. The attackers
targeted domain-name-system services of web-technology provider
Dynamic Network Services Inc., known as Dyn.
Some customers of Mr. Jassy's Amazon Web Services weren't
spared, since Dyn is among several providers of DNS services to the
company. Shortly after the attacks began, Amazon shut down its Dyn
DNS use and rerouted it to alternative providers, restoring full
service.
Even so, it illustrated a vulnerability corporate tech managers
fear.
But Mr. Jassy said cloud-computing providers remain the most
secure way to run corporate computing, "given their investment and
the number of people and the number of investments they've
made."
Mr. Jassy also talked about Amazon's willingness to experiment
and fail. He cited the company's ill-fated foray into mobile phones
as an example of a failure from which the company has learned. Some
of the technology from the phone has made its way into other
products.
"We like to say we're working on our next big failures," Mr.
Jassy said.
That experimentation has led the company to open physical
bookstores, in addition to its vast online operation. Amazon uses
its recommendation technology to stock its physical stores to help
customers find books they might not otherwise come across.
"We're very pleased with the results. It's very early," Mr.
Jassy said. "We're optimistic about the business and doing more
over time."
Write to Jay Greene at Jay.Greene@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
October 25, 2016 12:14 ET (16:14 GMT)
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