The International Data Corporation (IDC) is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the information technology, telecommunications, and consumer technology markets (“CANADA - Home,” n.d.).

The IDC has released an in-depth white paper illustrating their findings from the studies of 27 global organizations running various enterprise workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS) . This white paper illustrates the numerous benefits these organizations gained from AWS. Broadly, these benefits were found in the areas of IT infrastructure cost reductions, IT staff productivity benefits, risk mitigation, user productivity benefits and business productivity benefits. The total accruing benefits for these improvement categories can be seen in the below “Average Annual Benefits per Organization” chart.

Average Annual Benefits per Organization (Larry & Matthew, Febuary 2018)

These benefits are further explored in the following parts 2 - 5 of this blog post.
1. Benefits of AWS
2. IT infrastructure cost reductions
3. IT staff productivity benefits
4. Risk mitigation - User productivity benefits
5. Business productivity benefits

References:

CANADA - Home. (n.d.). Retrieved July 15, 2018, from https://www.idc.com/ca

Larry, C., & Matthew, M. (Febuary 2018). Fostering Business and Organizational Transformation to Generate Business Value with Amazon Web Services. IDC. Retrieved from https://pages.awscloud.com/rs/112-TZM-766/images/AWS-BV%20IDC%202018.pdf?aliId=1614258770