What Role for Large Cloud Providers in Smart Cities & Utilities?

What does AWS provide to the public sector and infrastructure operators like public utilities? We have over 200 fully featured services on our cloud computing technology. So that goes anywhere from compute, database and storage services, also to more advanced services like machine learning, Internet of Things and analytics. And so customers in the public sector, including utilities, are leveraging these services. But even more specifically, we... have some services targeted at smart city areas. One solution is called Smart Territory Framework and what this is is a set of modules and tools specifically designed to remove the data silos that a lot of smart city operators have grown accustomed to. So it allows data to be connected and allows you know insights to be provided across all of that data so that city operators, mayors, decision makers can have. the variety of data sources at their disposal and make better decisions. So everything from supporting a whole smart city strategy, for example, the city of Al-Medina in Saudi Arabia is doing that, leveraging STF to really deploy a smart city solution, but also using STF in specific capabilities, piloting certain areas, weather monitoring, traffic monitoring, for example, in the city of Heidelberg in Germany. Another example I'd like to talk about is- the Smart Island project we just launched in Naxos, Greece. So we chose Naxos as an island in the South Aegean because it's got a combination of over 20,000 residents, but also hundreds of thousands of visitors. And so it's basically what we're providing there is a living lab. We've got over 20 partners providing solutions at everything from water management, weather monitoring, electric vehicle charging stations, smart taxi payment. online portal for booking citizen services with the government or with tourist sites now they're all deploying the solutions on the smart territory framework and it allows them to showcase what's possible cities in Europe seem to be sensible not to be blocked to one particular cloud vendor how do you address this concern so in fact that's one of the reasons we developed SDF territory framework because it's built on top of a fireware open source ecosystem so it's basically you know AWS capabilities but on top of an open source platform so that removes the vendor lock in concerns you know customers can come and bring you know one solution on STF they can build their whole smart cities you know design strategy or platform on it on STF or they can just bring pieces but the advantage is that you know they can share the data with the rest of their solution. And that's really the key point, is to provide additional insights across all of the data that they're bringing in, not just one standalone solution. So we fully understand the need for removing vendor lock -in. And so that capability around making sure that they are in an open source platform allows them to kind of remove that concern. You