2. Prepared by Aon Inpoint
Aon Centre for Innovation and Analytics
This elephant can dance: How Aon embraced cloud
Todd Curry
CEO, Aon Centre for Innovation and Analytics
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Aon is the world’s largest company in insurance,
yet we don’t underwrite a single insurance policy
25% of the world’s
insurance premium
$1+ Billion investment
in data and analytics
$80+ Trillion
in insurance limits
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Tip 1 – if cloud decision isn’t binary, start strategizing
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Tip 2 – figure out what parts of cloud can “break compromises”
▪ *with reserved instances, this option is more attractive
No CapEx, markedly lower OpEx, highest performance
- who can argue with this use case?
Where else can you find these?
▪ Low-cost testing, HA / redundancy, storage costs, auto-scaling, etc. - pick 2-3.
Dimension Big Vendor DB Redshift Redis on EC2
IOPs needed 400,000 400,000 400,000
CapEx to achieve $2,000,000 n/m n/m
Annual OpEx $200,000 $400,000* $26,000
Million IO/$ 32 32 486 (15x better)
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Tip 3 – amass cloud talent; certifying your people and get them going
Hiring a cloud expert
•• Cost more $ / year
•• Take months to integrate
•• Will take a year to know your data well
Certifying your people
•• Cost more $ / year
•• No integration time
•• Know your data, start thinking on day zero
Net result: you have a small army of cloud experts helping to find those broken
compromises and actively plan for a better cloud future
We have certified a dozen people in the last year, some with multiple certifications
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Tip 4 – decide whether you want friends or scar tissue in a year
We took our Chief Privacy Officer to
AWS Summit in London last year
Hold regular check-ins where progress
across the firm is shared
Innovator’s duty to document,
often in the form of vignettes
Resistance is merely an opportunity to
articulate the case better
Questions like CMP are
global decisions
AWS have helped us with
every item on our change
agenda, from security,
architecture, privacy, support,
economic cases.
Ask them to help you.
