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Cloudera and AWS Enhance Cloud Data Management and Analytics

Cloudera and AWS Enhance
  • Cloudera and AWS have signed a strategic collaboration agreement to boost cloud-native data management and analytics.
  • Cloudera, AWS ISV WMP Partner, will use AWS services to innovate and reduce costs with its open data lakehouse.
  • Its Data Platform is engineered to integrate directly with AWS services, providing a cost-effective and innovative platform for customers. 

Cloudera and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have announced a Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) aimed at bolstering cloud-native data management and analytics. Under this agreement, Cloudera will harness AWS services to provide ongoing innovation and cost reduction to customers using the Cloudera open data lakehouse on AWS for enterprise generative AI.
 
As part of this collaboration, Cloudera, already an AWS Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Workload Migration Program (WMP) Partner, will further simplify workload migration to the cloud and the purchase of Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) on AWS, leveraging AWS Marketplace credits.
 
Cloudera has opted to run key elements of CDP on AWS, including data management, data lakes, data warehouses, operational databases, AI and machine learning, master data management, and security components. This allows customers to transition to CDP in the cloud without the need to refactor their applications, facilitating hybrid deployments. Moreover, Cloudera has designed CDP for seamless integration with various AWS services such as Amazon S3, Amazon EKS, Amazon RDS, and Amazon EC2, delivering a tightly integrated platform that reduces costs and capitalizes on AWS innovations. Customers can access AWS native services without the burden of managing integrations themselves.
 
"Deepening our collaboration with AWS gives customers even more reasons to choose to run the Cloudera Data Platform on AWS. With tighter hardware and AWS service integration, customers get the best possible experience with strong security and governance, along with new cost reduction options to support their most critical analytical workloads,
 said Paul Codding, Executive Vice President of Product Management, Cloudera. He stated that Cloudera and AWS, when combined, provide organizations with the necessary tools to construct and operate data applications in a manner that can optimally cater to the unique and evolving requirements of their business.
[Source: PR Newswire]
 
Beyond technology integration, AWS and Cloudera are set to collaborate on marketing and co-selling programs for customers. The partnership solidifies Cloudera's position as a trusted AWS partner in cloud-native data management and data analytics.
 
"Cloudera has strengthened their collaboration with AWS for shared customers to leverage their existing investments in CDP and accelerate their modernization to the cloud,
said Chris Grusz, General Manager, Technology Partnerships and Marketplace at AWS. He mentioned that Cloudera is persistently innovating on AWS throughout its data management platform to deliver authentic data analytics and insights for its customers.
[Source: PR Newswire]
 
Cloudera's open data lakehouse approach enables secure data management and portable cloud-native data analytics across various cloud environments, aligning with their mission to make data transformation feasible for the future.

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