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3 3 The need for a scalable, reliable, and globally available infrastructure To lower costs, increase revenues, and improve customer experience, industrial companies must bring new products and applications to market quickly while also modernizing existing applications to improve features and scale effectively. Yet, a complex landscape of continuous change—sustainability requirements and regulations, regional market differences, supply chain disruption, and more—is impacting progress. In addition, industrial processes generate massive amounts of data, which, when unlocked, can drive faster and more informed decisions to optimize business operations. However, that data is often difficult to access and use. Data holds the key to digital transformation for industrial organizations, but two main challenges— on-premises data access and performance and access to outside innovation—are impeding full implementation of the data. Industrial data access, management, and performance Many industrial companies would prefer not to maintain more capacity than they need for burst workloads. Nor do they want to struggle with unreliable, limited compute resources incapable of scaling. On-premises licensing requires the management of software packages across different functional areas and remote workers. Licenses are often tied to a local workstation, and remote workers need access to high-performance compute and storage and industrial software packages. Access to outside innovation A significant skills gap is making it difficult to find in-house data scientists and software developers to build custom applications that turn data into action. As a result, many industrial companies have opted to buy and configure software instead of developing their own solutions. They are looking for trusted, proven industry leaders to give them access to outside innovation for faster time to results. Read this ebook to explore how manufacturers like you solve these challenges and drive innovation with infrastructure and solutions provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS).