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T O D D C U R RYCEO

Aon Centre for Innovation and Analytics

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

Aon Inpoint | Aon Centre for Innovation and Analytics

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


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 EC2IOPs needed 400,000 400,000 400,000

CapEx to achieve $2,000,000 n/m n/mAnnual OpEx $200,000 $400,000* $26,000Million IO/$ 32 32 486 (15x better)


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


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.

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