As CIOs are busy creating projects to move more and more of their IT  infrastructure into the cloud, they are always looking to other firms in  order to get direction on what the best way to go about doing this is.  

We all know that Amazon offers one of the most popular cloud products  and so it can be very easy to assume that it has always been easy going  for their move into the cloud. It turns out that this is not the case,  Amazon had their own issues as they moved into the cloud. 

CIOs need to  pay close attention to the challenges that Amazon had to deal with and  how they went about solving these challenges.