IBM and AWS have reached an agreement that Amazon Web Services will offer much of IBM’s software catalog as a service. The IBM software that AWS customers will be able to access spans automation, data and AI, security and sustainability capabilities. It is built on Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS and runs cloud-native on Amazon Web Services.
AWS and IBM have also committed, as part of the agreement, to make a number of joint investments to make it easier for customers to consume IBM software on AWS, including integrated sales and marketing go-to-market activities, channel incentives, customer enablement and training. developers and development of solutions for verticals and sectors such as oil and gas, or travel and transportation.
IBM software that AWS customers will be able to run natively on their cloud include API Connect, INM DB2, Observability by Instana APM, Maximo Application Suite, Security ReaQta, Security Trusteer, Security Verify and Watson Orchestrate. Before the end of the year, this catalog will be expanded to include more tools.
The availability of these software products complements IBM’s catalog of manually deployable software on the AWS Marketplace, made up of more than 30 tools. Also the ability to BYOL (Bring your own license) for users who already have their license.
Amazon Web Services customers will be able to buy IBM software as a service products on the AWS marketplace and then configure and integrate with AWS services. In this way they can start using them with a few clicks, and without the need to implement, update or manage infrastructures. IBM SaaS software on AWS is designed for high availability and flexible scaling on demand. In this way they offer a native Amazon Web Services experience, with integration of the platform services out of the box, and support for API templates, CloudFormation and Terraform, which gives the opportunity to have end-to-end workflow automation. extreme.
The ability to access IBM SaaS software from AWS leverages a scalable consumption model for applications, making it easy for customers to redirect investments and expand usage over time , depending on production demands or trends in the sector.
Tom Rosamilia, Vice President of IBM Softwarehas highlighted that «As hybrid cloud continues to become a reality for our clients, IBM is ready and willing to satisfy them with a flexible, cloud-native software portfolio wherever they work – in the cloud or in data centers. By deepening our partnership with AWS, we are taking another big step in giving organizations the ability to choose the hybrid cloud model that best suits their own needs and workloads, freeing them up to focus on solving their most pressing business challenges.«.
As to Matt Garman, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at AWShighlights that its collaboration with IBM «enables joint customers to accelerate their modernization to the cloud and consume IBM services cloud-natively on AWS. Through our multi-year agreement, AWS will work with IBM to offer a broad range of IBM software as SaaS on AWS. In addition, we will work together on stronger co-marketing and co-selling programs for customers.«.
