SEATTLE, WA — (Marketwired) — 12/05/13 — , Inc. today announced that it has been named an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Premier Consulting Partner for the second consecutive year and that it is one of the first companies to receive an AWS Partner Network (APN) SharePoint Competency designation. 2nd Watch is a global leader in building, deploying and managing AWS-based IT operations for the enterprise.
: Proving its expertise in the @awscloud, @2ndwatch earns Premier Partner & @sharepoint competency designations
The AWS Premier Consulting Partner designation highlights the top APN Consulting Partners that have distinguished themselves by investing significantly in their AWS practice. The designation confirms that 2nd Watch provides exceptional customer service, helps a large number of significant customers run their applications on top of AWS, and has built a healthy revenue-generating consulting business on the platform. 2nd Watch is among only 22 companies in the world to receive the Premier Partner status.
The APN SharePoint Competency was granted to 2nd Watch for its proven ability to help customers design, migrate, manage and deploy their Microsoft SharePoint environment on the AWS cloud. To be among the first companies to earn the designation, 2nd Watch demonstrated its expertise across the AWS platform, provided real-world case studies about customers that have used its services to deploy SharePoint in the AWS cloud, and demonstrated technical proficiency within the competency use case. 2nd Watch has also previously received the APN Managed Service Provider competency.
“Enterprises recognize the power of the cloud but are still unable to fully leverage it due to a lack of internal resources and expertise needed to build and manage cloud infrastructures,” said Matt Gerber, EVP Sales and Marketing, 2nd Watch. “With our assistance, our customers are turning IT into a streamlined business machine that provides advanced performance and measurable ROI. We are honored to again be named a Premier Partner and to have earned the new APN SharePoint designation. Both will allow us to continue to assist enterprises to make an easy transition to the cloud.”
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Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services, Inc. began exposing key infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services — now widely known as cloud computing. The ultimate benefit of cloud computing, and AWS, is the ability to leverage a new business model and turn capital infrastructure expenses into variable costs. Businesses no longer need to plan and procure servers and other IT resources weeks or months in advance. Using AWS, businesses can take advantage of Amazon-s expertise and economies of scale to access resources when their business needs them, delivering results faster and at a lower cost. Today, Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of enterprise, government and startup customers businesses in 190 countries around the world. Amazon Web Services offers over 30 different services, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). AWS services are available to customers from data center locations in the U.S., Brazil, Europe, Japan, Singapore and Australia.
2nd Watch is a global leader in building, deploying and managing Amazon Web Services (AWS)-based IT operations for enterprise customers. 2nd Watch assists customers in evaluating the economics of moving IT operations into AWS, designs and builds highly reliable and scalable AWS-based enterprise IT platforms, and provides software tools and management services that enable enterprises to deploy, manage and optimize cloud-based IT operations infrastructure. 2nd Watch has effectively moved over 2MW of enterprise data center capacity into the AWS cloud as part of 300+ platform and data center migrations. 2nd Watch is an AWS Premier Consulting Partner and is headquartered in Seattle, WA with offices in San Francisco, New York and Atlanta. For more information, try the TCO Calculator at , email , visit or call 1-888-317-7920.
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