Responding to Rapid Technological Innovation and AWS Specification Changes
First written in FY2019. 5 of 7 entries say "Restated". Latest entry: FY2025.
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- FY2025RestatedAnnual report
「AWS frequently updates its service specifications and adds new services. As the process of training AWS engineers becomes longer and more demanding, any delay in responding to technological innovation, or in developing, introducing and ensuring the quality of new services that address changing customer needs, could reduce the competitiveness of our Group’s services.」
The risks associated with rapid technological innovation, AWS’s frequent specification changes and new service additions, and the longer and more demanding process of training engineers have been reaffirmed. - FY2025-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「Globally, Amazon Web Services (hereinafter “AWS (Note 5)”), which drives the public cloud market, continues to expand the market steadily while maintaining a high growth rate and overwhelming market share through ongoing technological advances and innovation.」
AWS continues to advance its technology and innovate, reaffirming the view that technological change in cloud services is ongoing. - FY2024-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「Globally, Amazon Web Services, which leads the public cloud market, continues to expand the market steadily by repeatedly advancing its technology and innovation while maintaining a high growth rate and an overwhelming market share.」
AWS continues to advance its technology and innovate, reaffirming the view that technological change in cloud services is ongoing. - FY2022RestatedAnnual report
「The Group is actively monitoring the latest technology trends, collecting the latest technical information and acquiring expertise in order to keep pace rapidly with these changes.」
The company is reconfirming its response policy for rapid technological innovation, changes to AWS specifications, the addition of new services, and the increasingly lengthy and demanding process of training engineers. - FY2021RestatedAnnual report
「AWS frequently implements updates, including changes to service specifications and the addition of new services, as a characteristic of the platform, and the process of training AWS engineers is becoming longer and more demanding. If the company is slow to respond to technological innovation or to develop, introduce and ensure the quality of new services that address changing customer needs, the competitiveness of our services could decline.」
The company is reconfirming the risks associated with rapid technological innovation, AWS's frequent changes to service specifications, the addition of new services, and the increasingly lengthy and demanding process of training engineers. - FY2020WorsenedAnnual report
「AWS frequently implements updates, including changes to service specifications and the addition of new services, as a characteristic of the platform. The process of training AWS engineers is becoming longer and more demanding.」
In addition to the existing risk of rapid technological innovation, the company explicitly identifies AWS's frequent changes to service specifications and addition of new services, as well as the increasingly lengthy and demanding process of training engineers, thereby specifying the resulting response burden. - FY2019First statedAnnual report
「The market, customer needs and technology are changing extremely rapidly, resulting in the successive development and introduction of new services based on these changes.」
The company identifies delays in responding to technological developments and customer needs, and the resulting increase in additional investment, as risks that could reduce competitiveness and worsen profitability.