Since the BI team is located in Singapore, we needed a vendor who could work with us locally, while still providing facilities in our key markets around the world. As the BI team was not engineering focused, it was also important that the platform be easy to use and configurable by non-engineers. AWS met those criteria, and we started using AWS in 2010.

The technology services on the AWS Cloud platform that we are using to build and run our BI Reporting Factory include Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). The main benefit was ease of use, and the ability of staff with "normal" computing skills to access and configure the setup.

No, the reason why we chose AWS was its ease of use which allowed non-infrastructure specialists to configure the platform.