NetApp Signs SCA with AWS

Expanding its decade-long relationship with Amazon Web Services (AWS), NetApp to help joint customers continuously fuel business growth and innovation in the artificial intelligence (AI) era. Signing a new Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) builds on the commitment to benefit joint customers by accelerating generative AI efforts, simplifying transactions, and delivering CloudOps value.

NetApp and AWS have worked together for over a decade to jointly accelerate innovation for thousands of customers worldwide. NetApp is the only enterprise storage vendor with a first-party data storage service natively built on AWS with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, a service that unlocks the best of cloud for customers by delivering the industry-leading data management operating system on AWS. 

 

The innovation between NetApp and AWS provides customers with a strong technology foundation for cloud-based data and operations services that prepares them to overcome current and future challenges. NetApp also supports operations for cloud infrastructure environments, including AWS, with CloudOps solutions such as Spot by NetApp, NetApp Cloud Insights, and Instaclustr by NetApp. These solutions combine machine learning (ML) and analytics to simplify, automate, and optimise operations in the cloud, helping customers reduce costs, secure their data, and get the most out of their cloud investments.

“With NetApp cloud solutions on AWS, our customers maintain full control over their data across their entire hybrid cloud environment while benefiting from industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance of AWS. That’s all made possible because our engineering teams are so in sync. Together, NetApp and AWS help customers continuously fuel business growth and innovation by delivering data-rich experiences through workload migration and new application deployments on AWS,” said Ashish Dhawan, Senior Vice President of Cloud Sales, NetApp. 

The expansion of the collaboration between NetApp and AWS will benefit customers by accelerating Generative AI Efforts. The collaboration between AWS and NetApp simplifies, accelerates, and enables the ability to generate unique, high-quality, and ultra-relevant data insights. Instaclustr by NetApp manages open source vector databases, a crucial component in the delivery of fast and accurate results in RAG architectures. The close collaboration between AWS and NetApp on these advanced workloads makes it simpler and faster for customers to unlock value from their data using RAG.

 

This SCA will enable increased AWS Marketplace purchases, especially for NetApp CloudOps solutions, to streamline processes for customers. It will also enable customers to more easily implement technical proof of concepts to evaluate how NetApp solutions on AWS can support their operations. It will better position NetApp as a trusted provider of CloudOps solutions for AWS environments. 

 

Investments from AWS enable NetApp to better position and deliver cost and performance optimisation solutions through the AWS Marketplace. NetApp’s close relationship with AWS shows customers they can trust that NetApp solutions will integrate seamlessly into their cloud operations and help them achieve their goals for the performance, protection, scalability, and availability of their workloads and data.