For most of the week – while at the Forge Accelerator in Barcelona – I sat next to an acquaintance (I’m happy to now call a friend) from Amazon Web Services: Tom “Elvis” Jones. Tom is a solution architect at AWS and has been to a number of Forge-related events over the last year or so.
Autodesk has tightened its relationship with AWS in recent years, one of the reasons for Tom’s presence at Forge events. From talking to Tom, it’s clear he’s interested in helping Forge developers get started more quickly with the AWS platform, something that’s going to be increasingly important as the two platforms become more tightly integrated.
If you’re not sure of the difference between Forge and AWS, you can think about AWS as a “Cloud OS”, while Forge offers complementary services (which are very often implemented using AWS, themselves) that are intended to be used by developers building tools that need to interface with design and engineering data. You don’t have…