The term “DevOps” has become quite buzzy, but its relevance for non-technical executives like me can be difficult to define. We think of financial statements, market dynamics, and operating efficiencies more than we do about Agile and Waterfall development methodologies.
Fortunately, a sound DevOps approach to infrastructure and applications relates directly to non-technical business metrics. When coupled with a feature-rich, API-driven, infinitely scalable platform like Amazon Web Services, DevOps provides a multitude of advantages to an enterprise that are easily recognizable to the line of business executive.
I will touch on three of those advantages: Improved customer experience, business agility, and improved operating economics.
Customers increasingly use technology to interface with companies of all kinds. DevOps and AWS enable the technology to respond to customer demand in an automated fashion, ensuring that the software your customers use is always available and served to them in the fastest way possible.
Your business will become more responsive to the market because software development teams can make important changes to applications with far less time and expense. If a Product team wants to roll out a new feature, the requisite infrastructure will be deployed in minutes, and will always adhere to security and configuration specifications defined by your Engineers. With DevOps, this is made even more efficient by largely automating the process.
Finally, operating economics are improved by dynamically leasing computing resources. Your capacity can fluctuate, and you never pay for more than what your business requires at a given time.
–Jason Deck, VP of Strategy, Logicworks
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