Amazon's Chief Technology Officer Shares Predictions for 2021

"I tried to stay with some of the things that I know will be happening because we have some control of them," said Mr. Vogels. On Wednesday, he shared eight predictions based on customer-behavior patterns and technology investments by the company. The cloud will be everywhere. Next year will see more devices and more organizations powered by the cloud. Mr. Vogel, whose expertise in scalable systems led him to Amazon.com in 2004, predicts that the cloud in 2021 will continue to move beyond the traditional notion of a centralized system, with troves of data moving back and forth between customers and massive data centers in real time.