Amazon Web Services and Arvato Systems Expand Partnership
Overview
About the Partnership
Arvato Systems and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are taking their existing cloud solutions and services partnership to a new level. The strategic alliance follows the vision of both companies and will jointly help Mittelstand customers in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (DACH) drive innovation by leveraging AWS cloud computing technologies and related value-added services from Arvato Systems. In order to do this at significant scale, it is planned to assign more than 500 dedicated staff from both AWS and Arvato Systems. This will allow both companies to further support customers in German-speaking countries with services and solutions for the creation and operation of AWS-based cloud architectures.
This intensive, collaborative relationship between Arvato Systems and AWS offers significant advantages for customers. Within the framework of the partnership, Arvato Systems is expanding their offering and skill-sets so that Mittelstand customers can benefit from agile approaches and scalable, dynamically available infrastructure. Arvato Systems will also leverage their extensive know-how in workloads such as big data, business intelligence, commerce systems, CMS, CRM systems, enterprise information management, and SAP to help Mittelstand customers migrate to the cloud.
Outlook
AWS and Arvato Systems are both interested in growing their partnership on a global level. Workshops and first discussions took already place in countries such as the USA.
The Value Proposition
This announcement builds on Arvato Systems’ successful work developing and deploying AWS architectures for their customers. Arvato Systems is a member of the AWS Partner Network (APN) and, through successful business growth and intensive staff training and certification, has been able to achieve “Advanced Consulting Partner” status. As an APN Partner, Arvato Systems already helps customers who want to use the global, flexible and secure “AWS Cloud Services” portfolio of technologies to drive innovation and speed up their digital transformation journey.
As part of this work, Arvato Systems is migrating customer applications into the cloud to increase automation through the use of AWS. The IT specialist manages AWS environments and infrastructure as well as business critical applications and processes 24/7, allowing customers to concentrate on their core business.
Arvato Systems offers customers AWS value added services and, with the newly-created Arvato Systems ‘AWS Business Group’, they are in a position to roll out these services in a scalable way. Medium-sized companies, in particular, now have another strong, established partner they can rely on to take them into AWS as well as for their cloud implementation operations.
For 11 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, according to the company. AWS offers over 90 full feature services for computing, storage, networking, database, analytics, application services, deployment, management, developer, mobile, Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), security, hybrid, and enterprise applications from 44 Availability Zones (AZs) across 16 geographic regions in the U.S., Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, India, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and the UK.