Owen Rogers is a Research Director of Cloud & Managed Services Transformation at 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. He also leads the firm's Digital Economics Unit, and is the architect of the Cloud Price Index, 451 Research's benchmark indicator of the costs of public, private and managed clouds. Owen is head of 451 Research's Center of Excellence for Quantum Technologies.
In 2013, he completed his PhD thesis on the economics of cloud computing at the University of Bristol. Prior to this, he held product management positions in Cable&Wireless and Claranet. He is a Chartered Engineer, a Member of the British Computer Society and a Certified Beekeeper. Owen was named 'Innovative Analyst of the Year' in the Institute of Industry Analyst Relations' global awards in 2018.
The company's ninth annual re:Invent conference was the first to be entirely virtual, drawing more than 400,000 registrations for the three-week program. This report focuses on some of the significant core cloud developments from week one.
COVID-19's unpredictability and the cloud's ability to scale without reservation has made cloud a critical technology in 2020. The flexibility it enables has supported homeworking, online entertainment and schooling, videoconferencing and the ability for companies to reinvent themselves. In 2021, COVID-19 will continue to act as a catalyst for cloud adoption, and enterprises will demand technologies and services that support adoption.
Although hyperscalers continue to innovate up the stack, virtual machines remain the fundamental building block of cloud. AWS continues to improve price-performance with new server hardware but is also giving enterprises the ability to innovate through the launch of new chips.
Enterprises willing to make large cloud commitments can negotiate with providers for discounts. These directly negotiated discounts are relatively small, but when layered on top of broadly available discounting plans such as reserved instances, these savings are but still worth having. They're icing on the cake, if you will.
The Cloud Price Index now produces more than 400 public cloud benchmarks each quarter for 10 regions around the world, spanning compute, storage, machine learning, database, serverless and network. The new format aggregates this data into a single spreadsheet, with tools that allow clients to chart time-based and geographical trends plus to build their own baskets of cloud services.
In a survey of 250 decision-makers, we found that the majority of enterprises view quantum computing with interest, and many are already experimenting in the hope of unlocking competitive differentiation.
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