Energize and Amplify – Data and AI Governance and Security on AWS through Partners

By Madhu V, WW Data and AI Partner GTM Lead, Data & AI Strategy, Governance and Security – AWS
By Vitor Freitas, WW Data and AI partner Tech Lead, Data & AI – AWS
By Vishal Sharma, Manager, Data & AI PSA – AWS

Introduction

AWS is launching a Data & AI Governance and Security partner initiative, bringing together expert Service and Software partners to address critical challenges in managing data and AI assets. This initiative empowers partners with a simplified AWS framework for Data Governance and Security practices, enabling them to deliver tailored solutions to customers. Partners benefit from end-to-end enablement, staying current with AWS innovations, and gaining go-to-market advantages including sales positioning, co-sell, and co-build opportunities. By leveraging this coordinated approach, partners can help organizations build strong data governance foundations while maintaining security, compliance, and innovation.

“In today’s data-driven world, effective governance and security are not obstacles to innovation, but catalysts for it. Our most successful customers are those who have mastered this balance, innovating rapidly while maintaining trust and compliance. That’s why we’re excited to launch this Data & AI Governance and Security partner initiative. By bringing together expert consulting and technology partners, we’re empowering organizations to build strong foundations for responsible, secure, and innovative data and AI practices. This initiative will be crucial in helping our customers navigate the complexities of the modern data landscape, ensuring they can harness the full potential of their data assets with confidence“, says Rick Sears, Director of Data Processing and executive sponsor of Data & AI Governance and Security on AWS partner initiative.

AWS Point of View and Importance of Data & AI Governance and Security

AWS recognizes that data and AI governance and security are critical components for organizations seeking to derive maximum value from their data assets while maintaining trust, compliance, and ethical standards. According to the Fortune Business Insights report (Report ID – FBI108640), the global data governance market size is projected to grow from $4.44 billion in 2024 to $19.86 billion by 2032, at a CAGR of 20.6%.

As Gartner predicts, by 2027, 60% of organizations will fail to realize the anticipated value of their AI use cases due to incohesive ethical governance frameworks. This underscores the critical need for robust data and AI governance solutions.

Organizations face several challenges in managing their data and AI assets, which the AWS Data & AI Governance and Security Framework addresses through its four pillars: Understand, Protect, Curate, and Govern. The ‘Understand’ pillar helps tackle delayed access to data and difficulty in locating data and ML models across multiple accounts and regions. The ‘Protect’ pillar addresses security concerns and technical barriers limiting access to tools. The ‘Curate’ pillar focuses on creating a unified environment for collaboration, while the ‘Govern’ pillar ensures comprehensive data and AI governance across all tools and processes.

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AWS Service Partners can benefit from significant revenue growth opportunities in Data & AI Governance and Security engagements, gain exclusive access to AWS tools and expertise, and receive comprehensive go-to-market support. Eligible partners may also receive funding for qualified opportunities.

AWS Software Partners can access valuable integration opportunities with AWS native services such as Amazon DataZone and AWS Lake Formation, benefit from co-selling opportunities with AWS sales teams, and receive technical support for optimizing their solutions on AWS infrastructure. They also gain increased visibility and credibility through association with AWS’s governance initiative, expanding their market reach and enhancing their solutions’ capabilities within the AWS ecosystem.

Introducing the First Cohort of Data & AI Governance and Security on AWS Partners

AWS is proud to introduce the first cohort of partners in this Data & AI Governance and Security initiative. This carefully selected group of competency specialized partners represents a diverse range of expertise and solutions, encompassing both AWS Service Partners and AWS Software Partners. These partners have demonstrated their commitment to excellence in data and AI governance, and their solutions are designed to integrate seamlessly with AWS services to provide comprehensive, end-to-end governance capabilities.

The launch cohort includes industry leaders in consulting services, data management, AI governance, and security solutions. By bringing together this group of partners, AWS aims to provide customers with a robust ecosystem of trusted advisors and cutting-edge technologies to address their most complex data and AI governance challenges.

AWS Service Partners:

Caylent: Delivers generative AI solutions with a focus on robust unified governance on Data and AI. Their approach combines strong data platforms with effective monitoring to help clients achieve impactful, responsible AI outcomes.
Cognizant: Offers the Cognizant® Data Unification Framework (CDUF) and Cognizant® Data and Intelligence Toolkit (CDIT). These solutions help unify data, ensure data quality, accuracy, completeness, and consistency, revolutionizing even the most complex data environments.
Data Reply: Offers an AIOps Accelerator for deploying and maintaining ML, AI, and generative AI solutions at scale. Built on AWS services like Amazon SageMaker AI and Amazon Bedrock, it streamlines the AI product lifecycle while enabling responsible AI governance and security.
Deloitte: Deloitte offers comprehensive Data and AI Governance and Security services from strategy to engineering and 24/7 operational services with AWS. During the AI lifecycle, Deloitte can help clients establish security-by-design and robust governance for data and AI initiatives on AWS, all grounded in trust.
IBM: Offers AI Governance capabilities through Watsonx.gov and Data and AI Security solutions. Their comprehensive approach covers the entire spectrum of data and AI governance, leveraging IBM’s extensive experience in enterprise-scale implementations. IBM and AWS pair up to de-risk the entire AI delivery lifecycle by securing data, models, and usage, and give your AI teams the confidence to move with both speed and security.
Lumiq: Provides a suite of Data and AI Governance solutions, including emPower Pryzm for data reliability and observability. Their offerings enable organizations to confidently make data-driven decisions with accurate and consistent data, built on AWS.
Mantel Group: Offers a “Data & AI Governance and Security Framework” leveraging partnerships with AWS, Databricks, Snowflake, Alation, and Immuta. Their extensive experience across diverse industries in ANZ allows them to deliver robust governance and security solutions tailored to unique client needs.
Mission Cloud: Provides Data Engineering for Generative AI, aligned with AWS’s Data & AI Governance and Security Framework. Their 4-6 week engagement helps establish robust data foundations and governance frameworks for successful, secure, and responsible generative AI deployments at scale.
Ollion: Delivers end-to-end strategy, planning, and execution for data governance and responsible AI. They combine proven frameworks with best-in-class solutions from leading technology partners to create comprehensive governance solutions.
PivotX: Provides data management and governance expertise, complementing AWS services. They focus on helping organizations leverage trusted data for decisions across their entire structure, combining deep industry knowledge with AWS capabilities.
Quantiphi: Provides QDAP (Quantiphi’s Data Pathway Accelerator) for enhanced data management and security. This solution automates the creation of secure, purpose-specific data pipelines in AWS, prioritizing data governance, access control, and compliance.

AWS Software Partners:

Alation: Offers a Data Intelligence Platform for data discovery, governance, and management. With Alation’s AI Governance solution and strategic partnership with AWS, organizations gain the ability to validate and manage the data driving AI models, while ensuring robust model development, documentation, and compliance.
BigID: Provides data discovery and security solutions. Their platform helps organizations discover, manage, protect, and get more value from their data across their entire data landscape. BigID and AWS help balance innovation with responsibility by ensuring AI models are secure, ethical, and compliant, while optimizing their performance at scale.
Cyera: Offers an AI-powered data security platform for holistic coverage across SaaS, PaaS, DbaaS, IaaS, and on-prem environments. Their solution provides visibility over sensitive data, context over risk, and actionable, prioritized remediation guidance.
Immuta: Immuta on AWS empowers enterprises to unlock the full potential of their data by providing dynamic, automated governance and security frameworks that ensure compliance and enable responsible innovation across AWS services and multi-cloud environments.
Informatica: Offers AI-powered cloud data management solutions. Their data governance and access management capabilities enable enterprises to implement modern data and AI architectures such as data mesh, data fabric, and enterprise-grade Generative AI applications.
Securiti.ai: Offers Gencore AI for building safe, enterprise-grade generative AI systems. Their solution accelerates Generative AI adoption by making it easy to build unstructured and structured data + AI pipelines utilizing proprietary enterprise data across diverse systems and applications.
Reltio: Provides a data management platform built on a cloud-native, big data architecture, leveraging advanced graph technology and machine learning to unify and enrich enterprise data. Reltio Data Cloud empowers organizations with real-time, trusted insights, enabling smarter decision-making and fueling AI-driven innovation.
Trellix: Provides data security solutions with comprehensive controls and detection capabilities. Their offerings combine exceptional visibility, controls, and superior detection to stop data exfiltration at the source, streamlining complex compliance tasks.

Conclusion

The AWS Data & AI Governance and Security partner initiative addresses a critical market need. Partners joining this initiative will help organizations navigate data and AI governance complexities, ensuring innovation with confidence while maintaining trust, compliance, and ethical standards. This initiative will also prepare partners to build offerings around the Next Generation of Amazon SageMaker in upcoming cohorts.

Customers should choose partners from this initiative due to their AWS vetting, expertise, tools, and alignment with AWS’s governance framework. These partners provide tailored solutions leveraging AWS’s infrastructure while addressing unique governance and security needs.

This partner ecosystem will shape the future of data and AI governance, driving innovation and creating value across industries. By combining AWS’s infrastructure and services with specialized partner expertise, organizations can build a strong foundation for responsible, secure, and innovative data and AI practices, fully harnessing their data assets’ potential in today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape.

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