Amazon Wants to Replace the Enterprise Data Center | Data Center Knowledge

Hybrid as a transitional function of data center depreciation

"The ideal goal for AWS is for every single function supported by enterprise data centers today to be offered by Amazon as a service delivered out of its data centers. In that vision, the role of hybrid is simply to smooth the transition and let customers’ existing infrastructure investments reach their natural end of life. “Most large organizations have existing IT investments that haven’t yet fulfilled their life,” he [Stephen Orban, head of enterprise strategy at Amazon Web Services] said.

Why? According to Orban, AWS can provide those functions cheaper and faster, leaving enterprise IT teams with more free time and resources to add value to the organizations they support."

Amazon Wants to Replace the Enterprise Data Center | Data Center Knowledge