 Live from Washington D.C., it's theCUBE, covering AWS Public Sector Summit 2017, brought to you by Amazon Web Services and its partner ecosystem. Dollar's company. Welcome to the wrap up of Amazon Web Services Public Sector Summit 2017. So, CUBE's inaugural event here in Washington D.C.'s Nations Capital. I'm John Furrier, my host, John Walls, and Jeff Frick here with theCUBE team. I want to thank our sponsors for making this happen. I want to shout out to Teresa Carlson at AWS who made it happen with a great stage here in the front of the hall. Intel for a generous sponsorship there. I want to thank Riverbed for stepping up and delivering great sponsorship. Fugue and Druva, without your inaugural sponsorship support for this event, we wouldn't be here. And I want to thank our sponsors in general. theCUBE is a sponsorship-driven business model. Allows us to go all day, be all the best people we can find, bring that content to you, very open source oriented. Thank you for your support. If you're watching this, go to Intel with Riverbed. Fugue and Druva, and say thank you. Here for the wrap up, John Walls. Thank you. Thank you, Jeff. Jeff Frick and now back with us as well. Teresa Carlson, again, we're sitting down with her. She's very intimate with us. She's going to go on and continue this run. She could go down as one of the major players in the cloud business. She already has a franchise that's growing like leaps and bounds. Since that shot her around the cloud, the CIA deal, the win against IBM, they've been running the table. The growth has been there. No debate on cloud. Great conversation with her. Yeah, two great things from the keynote, her keynote today. One was the CIA guy saying, we go to the cloud because it's more secure. I mean, wow, can you imagine that? A couple, two, three, four years ago? And the second thing, he said we wanted to be more like a regular company, not like a government company. And he talked about provisioning servers went from, I tweeted it out, many, many days or months, to days, to hours. And I think what people so miss on or why cloud is so important is it changes people's behavior. It changes innovation strategies. It's not an apples to apples comparison rent versus buy machine. It's really a cultural change and it's grabbing speed as your most important thing you want to maximize. And that is more and more important. So again, she's got an amazing opportunity because once you hit that tipping point in the government, right, they're all going to buy what the other agencies buy. So the world is a oyster. Yeah, you spend a little bit of time with her and you understand why she's so successful. At least that's the feeling I got. First time I had a chance to meet her, but obviously very smart, very driven, with great vision. And I think John, your word was right, tenacious. Relentless. And she saw this opportunity AWS did some seven years ago and said, all right, we're going to create this business. She's customer focused and that's Amazon, right? She's customer focused. That's the Amazon ethos, lower prices and make things go faster and ship faster, better delivery. That's their ethos. Now what's interesting guys is that I learned a lot on this event. I mean, I thought I had a good handle on the public sector, but it blew me away in terms of the number of attendees. Again, still small relative to what reinvented, but this is on the trajectory. And two, convinced that there's now, not only in the air of change of business model in the government, an absolute desire. There's more desire than I had thought, looking at the practitioners here in the ground to move fast to the cloud. I mean, it's almost like a call to arms. Like finally, we can go to the cloud. Now I still think there's a lot of work to be done on compliance. We still see the lag between what gets released on the commercial side, government, but still. No doubt in my mind that Amazon Web Services Public Secretary Summit and the cloud model is operationally hit that tipping point. No doubt. And these are coming to market much sooner. Like you said, we're inside of a year. Used to be much longer than that. So I think as citizens have demands, regional, local governments, whatever, they're trying to respond to those demands in a faster, way more agile way and the clouds away for them to do. I mean, you talked about the glacier speed of the government on our opening yesterday and how slow it's been. There are people who want to move faster and this is all about the citizen. It's all about the person in that their goal is to serve public service, public sector to serve the public. So what the hell's in for the public? That's where the shift is also happening. User experience, smart cities, kind of state of government as we know at the political level, seeing it, people are frustrated. And finally now the government now, I feel mobilized as saying, you know what? We can now focus on our mission to serve the public. And that is a good trend. Now there might be some, you know, bumps along the way, but it's a good path. But it was either the guy from the CIA or the Australian tax office that said, we had no idea the amount of frustration our own people had in just working in a classic IT infrastructure world. Again, how long does it take to get a server up for my project? As soon as they went to cloud, he said, not only their developers, but their general employee satisfaction went up dramatically. And again, it's this democratization of innovation across all the resources in your company. If you want to keep the brightest and best, working, happy and gauge, they want to change the world, right? That's why they got into the government. It's a great word for them. Now they do it. Now you can do it with cloud. Guys, thanks so much, John. Great to see you. John and John on theCUBE. Welcome to... Great change. There you go. A lot of John guests. Thanks for watching theCUBE. Special presentation of exclusive coverage of Amazon Web Services Public Sector Summit. Thanks to Intel, Riverbed, Druva. Thanks so much for your support. And for you, check them out. theCUBE, signing off from DC. See you next time.