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Innovative Solutions Signs Strategic Agreement with AWS

Innovative Solutions | January 04, 2023 | Read time : 01:28 min

Innovative Solutions (Innovative), a leading cloud services provider for emerging enterprises, announced the signing of a multi-year strategic collaboration agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS).

As a result of this agreement, Innovative Solutions and AWS will closely integrate their sales, marketing, and delivery teams to effectively drive cloud service adoption in the SMB and startup industry segments, with a particular emphasis on software, finance, life sciences, and retail.

The collaboration between Innovative and AWS drives substantial investments in numerous areas to serve the growing demand for AWS products and services among Innovative's 600+ SMB clients and new customers in the United States and Canada. Innovative will extend its migration and modernization practices, manage service offerings, and build new data analytics and machine learning practices to support the advanced stages of its customers' cloud journeys.

Innovative, which further aims to expand its Managed Cloud Services (MCS) business, has swiftly developed as an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner by introducing specialized services for organizations desiring to migrate their server infrastructure to AWS and manage a customer's cloud operations. Innovative Solutions intends to accelerate growth and customer satisfaction with this new arrangement by establishing four practice groups - migrations, modernization, data engagements, and machine learning. Each will be accountable for growing the depth, size, agility, and reach to give the best customer experience to Innovative and AWS's joint clients at all stages of their digital transformation.

About Innovative Solutions

Innovative Solutions is committed to assisting every small to mid-size business in the United States and Canada in leveraging the power of the cloud to promote business growth. Innovative utilizes its cloud experience and technology to assist companies in migrating to and managing their cloud-based IT infrastructure.

About Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services (AWS), founded in 2006, delivers critical infrastructure services to organizations through web services. The ultimate benefit of AWS is that businesses no longer need to prepare for and purchase servers and other IT resources. Instead, AWS enables organizations to leverage Amazon's knowledge and economies of scale to access resources as required, delivering results faster and at a reduced cost.

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