GrayHats achieves Advanced Solution Provider Partnership status with AWS

Today we are very pleased and proud to announce that AWS has recognised us as Advanced Solution Provider Partner. This recognition ensures that we meet the experience, capabilities and commitment required by AWS to take on the biggest challenges and support the most demanding customers in their digital transformation to the cloud.

The relationship between GrayHats and AWS started a long time ago. As far back as it goes. It was 2012 when I read an article in Wired magazine entitled "Amazon owns the Internet". The article talked about Amazon Web Services (AWS), a spin-off of the Seattle-based giant through which it rented out its data centers via "cloud services" to software developers and startups to fuel their growth. No joke, I thought.

I started an account, tried everything there was to try, fell in love with the cloud, saw my future, applied to join the AWS partner network and by the end of 2012 we were in with a bang, I received an email congratulating us and letting us know that we were "one of the first partners in the AWS Partner Program globally". 

From this point in time, we have been witnesses and protagonists of a journey in which both GrayHats and AWS have grown and demonstrated that the cloud is the computing paradigm of the future and that this future began some time ago. 

In these more than 10 years, we have developed projects and migrated workloads to customers in the USA, Spain, UK, Germany, Libya, UAE, Korea and Australia. 

Among these projects I would highlight the one carried out in 2018 together with Nasuni and Aixtron (link) in which we managed to find a solution to reduce the synchronisation latency of a 3D CAD model between two remote Siemens Teamcenter sites. We deployed power stations virtual desktop infrastructure for engineers and servers in the Seoul, Frankfurt and Northern California regions for synchronisation benchmarks. We found a way to reduce this latency from days to hours.

In the public sector in Spain we were also pioneers in 2016 launching an elastic and ultra resilient infrastructure for the application of the Cordoba City Council's courtyard festival, or using S3 to store the historical archive of the municipal television. We also opened an account at the University of Cordoba by deploying in 2019 a FIWARE infrastructure on AWS to collect sensor data from the Innolivar project.

We are especially proud to have launched, in 2018, the AWS Academy programme at the University of Cordoba, the first public university in Spain to do so, and to contribute to training the workforce of the future.

Likewise, we have seen AWS grow in Spain, from having practically no representation, now they have almost occupied the Cepsa tower in the Castellana in Madrid and have just opened a computing region in Aragon. It is an honour to have a titan of this category as a partner, and to have such a strong commitment to your region.

I would like to thank the people from AWS who have been with us from the beginning, such as Jose Luis Vílchez, Alfonso Palacios, Pilar Torres, Pablo Salvia, Miguel Seijas, Miguel Gómez Centurión, Diego Ovejero, Marta Shimoura, Fátima Aláez, Beatriz Tapia and very especially Marta Córdoba for giving us the support, the push and some occasional rap on the head to reach this new level.

We continue now with our sights set on becoming the reference partner in AWS in southern Spain, and why not, southern Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.

It has been said.