{"id":4900,"date":"2012-12-02T20:50:01","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T20:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2012\/dec\/02\/how-amazon-applies-lean-principles-cloud\/"},"modified":"2012-12-02T20:50:01","modified_gmt":"2012-12-02T20:50:01","slug":"how-amazon-benefits-from-applying-lean-principles-to-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/how-amazon-benefits-from-applying-lean-principles-to-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"How Amazon benefits from applying lean principles to the cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\" dir=\"ltr\">Those of you who followed my blog for a while know that the idea of applying manufacturing best practices to cloud computing is a favorite topic of mine*. This week the topic popped up in a fireside chat (the popular term for keynotes delivered from a set of armchairs, often with no fire in sight) between Amazon&rsquo;s CTO Werner Vogel and CEO Jeff Bezos at re:Invent, the first Amazon Web Services customer conference.<\/p>\n<div>I won&#8217;t cover the conference here &#8211; many blogs and media sites already did &#8211; but in the chat Bezos made a number of interesting points on how principles of lean manufacturing are guiding Amazon&rsquo;s overall endeavors and how cloud computing both supports and benefits from this approach. <\/p>\n<p>He discussed how &ndash; for developers- this approach turns the cost of infrastructure operations from an abstract overhead-like concept into a very visible direct cost they can directly &#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who followed my blog for a while know that the idea of applying manufacturing best practices to cloud computing is a favorite topic of mine*. This week the topic popped up in a fireside chat (the popular term for keynotes delivered from a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}