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Amazon - AWS and Slalom Expand Next-Generation Strategic Collaboration

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AWS and Slalom Expand Next-Generation Strategic Collaboration

Renewed agreement supports global expansion, strengthens Slalom's collaboration with AWS Professional Services, and positions both companies to deliver innovative technology and industry-specific solutions to more joint customers

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), and Slalom, LLC (Slalom), a global business and technology consulting company, announced a multiyear extension to the companies' global Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA). The two companies will work together to develop vertical solutions and accelerators on AWS for customers in the energy, financial services, healthcare, life sciences, public sector, and media and entertainment industries, delivering specialized end-to-end cloud migration and modernization services to help accelerate their cloud journeys. In addition to supporting accelerated growth in Slalom markets in the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, Japan, and New Zealand, AWS and Slalom in 2023 will jointly create go-to-market strategies and make co-investments in support of Slalom's continued expansion into Ireland and the Netherlands, followed by additional countries in Latin America, Asia Pacific, and through Europe over the next three years.

As part of the agreement, AWS and Slalom are expanding upon their 2019 announced collaboration to deliver AWS | Slalom Launch Centers (Launch Centers) that help enterprises accelerate their business transformations and modernize information technology services. Launch Centers provide customers with access to the unique combination of AWS Professional Services—a global team of AWS experts who help customers reach their desired outcomes with the cloud—and Slalom's expertise in business transformation, software engineering, and analytics capabilities. Over the last three years, more than 160 customers have migrated and modernized to AWS through their work with Launch Centers.

AWS is working with Slalom to develop solutions to help customers solve specific industry challenges. For example, Slalom offers the Slalom Meter Data Analytics solution on AWS, which uses Amazon SageMaker (AWS's service for building, training, and deploying machine learning models in the cloud and at the edge) to help utility and renewable energy customers improve billing and energy efficiency, and forecast power outages. In addition, the companies collaborated to introduce in 2022 Slalom Agile Supply Chain, a solution aimed at helping manufacturing customers build agility and resiliency into their supply chains to reduce costs, increase capacity, and improve their customers' experiences.

"This agreement enhances our relationship with AWS and serves as a key growth driver for Slalom's business over the next three years," said Brad Jackson, CEO of Slalom. "Through the expansion of our AWS practice, we will be better equipped to help our customers find new ways to use AWS technologies to dream bigger, move faster, and build better tomorrows for all."

"Slalom has a proven track record and is a trusted partner in providing innovative business and technology consulting services to our mutual customers, helping them accelerate their transitions to the cloud and leverage the vast portfolio of AWS services to drive innovation," said Ruba Borno, vice president, Worldwide Channels and Alliances at AWS. "By extending our collaboration with Slalom, expanding more broadly into markets together, and combining Slalom's consulting and technical skills with our leading cloud services and migration expertise, we are giving customers a broader range of capabilities and offerings to better support their cloud strategies and digital transformation journeys."

TC Energy is a North American energy company headquartered in Canada. Working with AWS and Slalom, TC Energy used the Amazon Working Backwards process to envision and then build a new business intelligence application that maximizes capacity in its network of gas pipelines. Maximizing pipeline capacity helps TC Energy avoid the years-long process, capital expenditures, and environmental impact associated with building new pipelines. "We will save millions of dollars in greenhouse gas emissions costs by innovating on AWS," said Peter Jarmola, TC Energy's director of enterprise innovation, in an AWS-published case study. "That's an important benefit because it helps us demonstrate to our customers, our regulators, and the government that we are a responsible operator."

Slalom—an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner in the AWS Partner Network for over a decade, the 2021 National Systems Integrator Partner of the Year in the US, and the 2022 SI Partner of the Year in North America—holds 15 AWS Competencies and seven AWS Service Delivery designations. In addition to the more than 160 customers who have migrated and modernized with Launch Centers, more than 500 customers have optimized their business in the cloud by working together with AWS Professional Services and Slalom.

About Amazon Web Services

For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 96 Availability Zones within 30 geographic regions, with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, Israel, New Zealand, and Thailand. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.

About Amazon

Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Amazon strives to be Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.

About Slalom

Slalom is a purpose-led, global business and technology consulting company. From strategy to implementation, our approach is fiercely human. In six countries and 43 markets, we deeply understand our customers—and their customers—to deliver practical, end-to-end solutions that drive meaningful impact. Backed by close partnerships with over 400 leading technology providers, our 13,000+ strong team helps people and organizations dream bigger, move faster, and build better tomorrows for all. We're honored to be consistently recognized as a great place to work, including being one of Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For seven years running. Learn more at slalom.com.

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Plus: Tesla's growing threats | Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Open in app View in browser   Presented By Upside   Axios Closer By Hope King and Nathan Bomey · Nov 30, 2022 Wednesday ✅. Today's newsletter is 677 words, a 2½-minute read. 🚨 Situational awareness: Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor steps down; shares slide 6.6% after the close. 🔔 The dashboard: The S&P 500 closed up 3.1%, as Fed chair Jerome Powell signaled a slowdown in the pace of rate hikes. Biggest gainer? Estee Lauder (+9.7%), the cosmetics company, ending a streak of losses in three straight trading sessions. Biggest decliner? NetApp (-5.8%) the cloud computing company, after missing revenue estimates for the quarter and providing disappointing guidance for the full year.     1 big thing: Tesla shares losing power Illustration: Rebecca Zisser/Axios   Tesla investors are getting frustrated at Elon Musk's Twitter obsession, if the automaker's stock is any indication, Nathan writes. Unnerved investors have driven Tesla shares down about 41% since mid-September. Why it matters: Tesla shares have long seemed impervious to Musk's external affairs, making him the richest person in the world and ultimately enabling his Twitter takeover. State of play: Investors are fretting that Musk may need to sell off more Tesla stock to backstop Twitter as the social media service suffers a drop in advertising, CFRA Research analyst Garrett Nelson tells Axios. "He's certainly scaring a lot of Tesla investors," Nelson says, though he says the concerns "may be overblown" due to Twitter's stockpile of cash. Zoom out: Tesla has other problems on its hands, as well, including battery and chip shortages — plus mounting threats from automotive and tech competitors that could challenge its electric vehicle crown. Tesla's U.S. EV market share is estimated at 65% in 2022, but that's poised to fall below 20% by 2025, S&P Global Mobility projects. Nissan, which pioneered the cheap EV space with the Leaf passenger car, is among the automakers spelling out plans to gain ground. Yes, but: Tesla's quiver isn't exactly empty. The company is holding a rare event Thursday to showcase the delivery of the first Tesla Semi — and Musk has promised that the long-awaited Cybertruck pickup will finally arrive in 2023. The bottom line: Tesla investors are hoping that Musk soon diverts his attention away from Twitter. "I think the sooner that he names a CEO to take over Twitter, the better," Nelson says.     2. Charted: Into the home stretch Data: Bespoke Investment Group; Table: Alice Feng/Axios So, it's been a rough year in the stock market, Nathan writes. That often means a rough December, too. By the numbers: The S&P 500 is down at least 10% through November for the fifth time this century, according to Bespoke Investment Group. It's averaged a 1.4% decline in December in those previous cases. Yes, but: In 55.6% of those occasions, the index posted December gains. The bottom line: As seen today, optimism could be growing. But this could go either way.     3. What's happening 🚪DoorDash is cutting about 1,250 workers after expanding too fast. (Axios) 📺 CNN is laying off "a couple hundred" employees, part of Warner Bros. Discovery's cost-cutting campaign. (Axios)     A message from Upside How to fight inflation with your everyday spending     The Upside app pays you back a little from each purchase to help offset rising costs. On average, users earn $148 annually. You can get cash back at: Gas stations. Convenience stores. Grocery stores. Restaurants. Take back control of your budget and download the free Upside app.     4. Zuck takes a bite of the Apple Photo: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images   Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday added to the growing chorus of concerns about Apple, arguing that it's "problematic that one company controls what happens on the device." Why it matters: Zuckerberg has been one of the loudest critics of Apple in Silicon Valley for the past two years, Axios' Sara Fischer writes. His comments today come just days after Elon Musk publicly attacked the company, alleging its app store policies are an abuse of power. Details: "I think the problem that you get into it with the platform control is that Apple obviously has their own interests," Zuckerberg said at the New York Times' DealBook conference. Those interests, he said, may conflict with what may be in the best interests of people, overall. "I do think Apple has sort of singled themselves out as the only company that is trying to control, unilaterally, what apps get on the device, and I don't think that's a sustainable or a good place to be," he said. Go deeper.   Share Axios and earn rewards If you like this newsletter, your friends may, too! Refer your friends and get free Axios swag when they sign up. Be a good friend and share   5. Spotify wraps up 2022 🎤 Bad Bunny. Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images   Everyone's listening to Bad Bunny. Driving the news: Spotify today unveiled its Spotify Wrapped recap for 2022. Bad Bunny was the most-streamed artist globally for the third year in a row, Axios' Herb Scribner writes. Yesterday, Apple named his "Un Verano Sin Ti" the biggest album of the year for its streaming service. Between the lines: Spotify listeners in the U.S. streamed Drake more than anybody else. If you say you didn't listen to Harry Styles' "As It Was" this year, you're probably lying. It was the most-streamed song in the world. And Taylor Swift was named the most viral artist. Ticketmaster knows all about that.     6. What they're saying "It will take substantially more evidence to give comfort that inflation is actually declining." — Fed chair Jerome Powell today at an event hosted by the Brookings Institution.     A message from Upside This app is helping users treat themselves     Upside is on a mission to make sure that, even during expensive times, people still have a little extra money for a rainy day fund. The free app gets users cash back on: Gas. Groceries. Convenience stores. Restaurants. On average, users earn $148 annually. Download the free Upside app to start earning.   Today's newsletter was edited by Pete Gannon and copy edited by Sheryl Miller. Why stop here? Let's go Pro. Join the thousands of professionals using Axios Pro to keep up with the companies, deals and trends changing their industries.   Axios thanks our partners for supporting our newsletters. If you're interested in advertising, learn more here. Sponsorship has no influence on editorial content. 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