Data localisation is fine, but build encryption standards: Werner Vogels, VP & CTO Amazon

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is driving companies across industries to use data the way the ecommerce giant itself did over the past 20 years to become one of the most dominant players in the global technology landscape.

Data-driven analytics and datadriven decision-making are “around the corner”, Werner Vogels, VP and chief technology officer at Amazon told ET’s Alnoor Peermohamed on the sidelines of Amazon Web Services’ annual developer conference — re:Invent — in Las Vegas recently. Vogels said voice as an interface (Alexa), autonomous mobility in trucks and machine learning on the Cloud will dominate technology in the next few years. Excerpts: