Jeff Aden Of AWS Premier Partner 2nd Watch: Cloud Automation Offers Opportunity

Is there anything that's not surprising from the survey results, or that validated things you were seeing?

It wasn't surprising [that] 63 percent said deploying applications takes longer than six weeks. … But as that number breaks down I would have expected more people to be a little closer to deploying much quicker than that, learning and being able to adapt. But then it gets into more of a question which we didn't ask [about diving] into the complexity around applications, and it's just hard to do that in a survey.

We're hearing from a lot of clients and prospects that automation is becoming key in the processes, handling the workloads. And they're thinking of things [like]: How do I automate this process, and what does that lead to with other processes?

It's really about an extension of the customer experience: How do I help my customers get to market faster?