Yugabyte, the distributed SQL database company, is entering a strategic collaboration agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS), enabling the company to help enterprises modernize their legacy databases and scale cloud-native applications on AWS by providing high availability, global distribution, and operational resilience.
With the SCA, Yugabyte will accelerate go-to-market efforts and technical collaboration to help customers more efficiently deploy and operate ultra-resilient cloud-native applications with YugabyteDB on AWS, the company said.
“Enterprises are modernizing mission-critical PostgreSQL and legacy database workloads while demanding stronger resilience, predictable performance at scale, and simpler operations in the cloud,” said Karthik Ranganathan, co-founder and co-CEO, Yugabyte. “Our strategic collaboration with AWS enables organizations to accelerate modernization and AI adoption while leveraging the scalability, reliability, and operational simplicity of AWS. We’re helping customers move faster with a resilient, cloud-native database foundation.”
Under the agreement, Yugabyte will:
- Accelerate database modernization and cloud migrations for PostgreSQL and legacy database workloads on AWS.
- Drive field execution through motions supported by AWS APN Customer Engagements (ACE) pipeline engagement.
- Support customers building globally distributed, resilient transactional applications on AWS.
"Customers want to modernize their databases without adding operational complexity," said Allison Johnson, director of Americas technology partnerships, AWS. "Through this collaboration with Yugabyte, we're enabling customers to transform legacy systems while maintaining the reliability and simplicity their teams need to focus on innovation, whether that's accelerating AI adoption or building next-generation applications."
This collaboration supports Yugabyte’s commitment to helping customers modernize and operate mission-critical data platforms on AWS, according to the company.
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