How AIG moved commercial claims to the cloud

With costly, out-of-date legacy mainframes in need of upgrade, AIG's commercial arm turned to Amazon's Web Services to bring the carrier’s commercial claims operations to the cloud. The agreement, announced Jan. 17, also reduces AIG’s IT capital spending and turnaround time on new products, Jim Gouin, CIO of Americas and global claims for the carrier, said at Amazon Web Services' Summit in New York Monday