Re: Ho hum
Regarding Kellogg's, if you read Amazon's own marketing material, it's about SAP Accelerated Trade Promotion Management (analytics) and HANA (in-memory database), not SAP ERP.
They are not related as to what tasks they do. HANA isn't even a SAP product originally.
As to Netflix - sorry, I confused them with Dropbox. Point remains.
That you keep bringing up Google or Netflix or whatever as a reason for why BA could migrate their IT infrastructure to AWS clearly shows you have absolutely no clue what you are talking about.
They are completely different applications. The issues and challenges are not remotely comparable in any way.
If you have a service that realistically can be distributed over a lot of unreliable hosts, then AWS or similar might be for you. Such as pushing a lot of bits (streaming services, Snapchat), or maintaining huge databases without hard consistency requirements (Google search, analytics). Neither of which is easy at those scales, of course, but they do fundamentally lend themselves to this way of operating.
What you need for core IT operations at eg. an airline or a bank is totally different.
Plus you are completely glossing over the myriad of very good reasons why someone could need their own infrastructure and/or fully control the staff involved. (Can you even get a current list of everyone with admin or physical access to the hosts from AWS...?)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
