ability to understand what the other
expects. “A good partnership will
involve mutual communication at all
times and a joint ability to deliver
something that works well together.
I know when it comes to some of these
smaller AWS or Azure partners, we
would choose a vendor that has the
skills and abilities internally to do the
job, but that can also align with our
nimbleness,” he explains. “A lot of our
infrastructure dovetails into Microsoft
and AWS. Amazon can give us a nice
little angle in terms of IoT endpoints
and it offers us a much larger vendor
footprint, too. With AWS, we would get
involved with the cyber types when
it comes to industrial.”
With a determination to not rest
on its previous successes, Thomas
affirms SSR Mining isn’t at the finish
line yet and he still considers it a small
and medium-sized enterprise (SME),
despite revenues of over $400mn in
- “In mining terms, our revenue is
relatively small. I think once you get
into the $2-4bn range of market
capitalisation, that’s when you can be
402
AUGUST 2019
SSR MINING INC.
