Technology Magazine April 2019 | Page 45

Where do you hope to see AWS in the next 5-10 years ? What ’ s your vision for the future of the organisation ? We believe that the vast majority of computing is going to be done in the cloud . Very few companies in the fullness of time will own their own data centres , and those that do will have much smaller footprints . We can expect a lot of geographical expansion and huge investments in machine learning , artificial intelligence ( AI ), connected devices and the Internet of Things ( IoT ). Voice will become an increasingly larger percentage of the total applications out there . When we first started using applications on the phone , tapping a few times felt pretty handy . Then you use a voice-driven application , like Alexa and it actually seems really inconvenient to have to tap three or four times . We ’ re going to see an explosion of voice applications . In the longer term , we ’ ll see more and more organisations come to rely on the capabilities of AI .
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