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AWS and IBM

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and IBM are partnering to help businesses innovate, optimize, and scale with confidence in today’s rapidly evolving, artificial intelligence (AI)–driven landscape. By combining trusted expertise with leading software and services, AWS and IBM empower organizations to seize unprecedented opportunities and achieve transformative business outcomes at scale.

Why AWS and IBM?

Together, AWS and IBM can help your organization harness generative AI (gen AI) to accelerate innovation, unlock cost and performance benefits, power new levels of productivity, and develop breakthrough offerings and services—keeping you well ahead of the curve.

Consulting

Maximize speed and scalability with trusted AWS and IBM solutions for hybrid cloud, gen AI, and more.

Join the more than 5,000 customers that trust the experience, technology, and partner community of AWS to migrate, modernize, and transform their SAP landscapes. Prepare to reimagine possible with SAP on AWS.

Discover IBM Garage, where you can co create solutions with a
multidisciplinary IBM team using IBM technology on AWS. Learn how to design, deploy, and manage innovative solutions with accelerated time to value and reduced risk.

Through AWS Marketplace, AWS and IBM offer a comprehensive suite of gen AI software for automation, AI, and data platforms. Build custom AI applications, manage all your data sources, and accelerate responsible AI workflows—all on one platform.

IBM Storage Platform designs, develops, and markets advanced software defined all-flash, hybrid flash, and tape storage systems to a global audience.

Software and Technology

IBM has 24,000 AWS certifications, 21 validated service delivery programs, and mastery of 30 AWS competencies for cloud native application development.

The IBM Data and AI is IBM Software’s largest business unit that encompasses over 20 software and SaaS products. The portfolio is sub categorized into four distinct product segments:

Data Sources - the products in this category, such as Db2, Netezza, Db2 Warehouse etc. focus on mission-critical applications, real-time analytics, data protection, and cost management.
Data Fabric and AI Lifecycles - the products in this group, such as IBM Knowledge Catalog, Data Stage, Data band focus on data governance, data integration, data science and MLOps, and AI governance.
Data Insights and Applications - the products in this category, such as Planning Analytics, Cognos Analytics etc., focus on planning and analysis, enterprise analytics, AI for customer service, and AI for document understanding.
Data and AI Platforms - the products in this category are watsonx.ai, watsonx.data, etc. and they form IBM’s Generative AI portfolio. Today, IBM’s Data and AI products such as Db2, Planning Analytics, and Netezza are used by the Fortune 100 companies across Financial Services, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Retail and other industry segments to formulate a cohesive data management strategy by providing solutions across data integration, analytics, governance, and hybrid data management.

Blogs:
Building data integration with IBM Planning Analytics SaaS and AWS Lambda

Optimize AI governance with Amazon SageMaker and IBM watsonx.governance

Announcing Amazon RDS for Db2 with license through AWS Marketplace 

IBM's automation portfolio is primarily split into FinOps and AIOps. Customers need FinOps to manage cloud costs and optimize application resourcing; key products include Instana, Turbonomic and Apptio. AIOps is used to drive efficient IT operations and enterprise observability; key products include MQ, API Connect and App Connect. IBM recently completed its acquisition of Apptio Inc. and we have recently announced the first product integration between IBM Apptio Cloudability, for cloud financial management and, IBM Turbonomic, for hybrid cloud cost optimization.

Key Links:
IBM Cloudability Named a Leader in Cloud Cost Management & Optimization Report by Independent Research Firm - Download the full report here.

AWS Blogs:
Enterprise Integration with IBM Cloud Pak for Integration on Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS

Automate Observability for AWS with IBM Instana self-hosted

Optimizing Workload Performance and Cost with IBM Turbonomic on AWS

IBM Sustainability Software on AWS includes Maximo Application Suite on AWS and Envizi ESG Suite. IBM Maximo Application Suite (MAS) is an industry leading Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) solution and is the flagship product in the IBM Sustainability Software portfolio. MAS is available as a SaaS and BYOL offering on AWS. Envizi ESG Suite is used to automate the collection and consolidation of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) data.

Customers can now leverage MAS and Envizi on AWS to automatically synchronize asset location and meter readings from MAS to automate tracking of energy usage and emissions data in Envizi.

IBM Security Software on AWS includes IBM Guardium, a family of data security to uncover vulnerabilities and protects sensitive data, IBM Verify, an Identity-as-a-Service solution, Trusteer, which helps organizations with fraud detection, and MaaS360, a unified endpoint management (UEM) solution. These solutions run as SaaS on AWS.

Blogs:
Monitoring Amazon Aurora databases with IBM Guardium

Guardium Data Protection and AWS: Primed for Data Security in the Cloud 

Learn more about IBM solutions on AWS Marketplace

IBM on AWS Marketplace