Snapshots of AWS re:Invent 2012

During his keynote, Amazon Web Services Vice President Andy Jassy wowed attendees with the release of Amazon Redshift data warehouse service to help enterprises overcome data migration issues.

"It will be good for smaller guys and those who can start from scratch, maybe, but if you have a large investment in a data warehouse, you're not going to move it all to Amazon -- you already have sunk costs into that infrastructure," said Giedrius Praspaliauskas, senior systems architect for a consulting company based on the West Coast.