Given that Amazon Web Services Inc. is pioneering cloud infrastructure, the AWS impact lies not just in technology but in changing the way businesses think about infrastructure and innovation.

By aligning AWS tools and services with organizational goals, Caylent Inc. empowers enterprises to achieve agility, scalability and innovation in the cloud, according to Randall Hunt (pictured), chief technology officer of Caylent.

“We’re all in on AWS premier tier consulting partner,” Hunt said. “We help people turn ideas into impact faster. Customers come to us, they want to do heterogeneous database migrations from SQL server to PostgreSQL. They want to move from on-prem into AWS. They want to do app dev. They want to do virtually anything you could think of with regards to AWS. Caylent, we’ve had some really phenomenal growth. We won three partner of the year awards this year. We were the global migration partner.”

Hunt spoke with theCUBE Research’s John Furrier for theCUBE’s “Cloud AWS re:Invent Coverage,” during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed the AWS impact on the enterprise world and how Caylent fits in. (* Disclosure below.)

Delving deeper into the AWS impact

AWS’s innovation prowess comes in handy in reducing the blast radius by implementing a combination of architectural, operational and security strategies. This AWS impact ensures that even if one component fails or is compromised, the repercussions are limited and do not cascade across the entire system, according to Hunt. 

“AWS has this cumulative knowledge and experience of running these operations at scale, and that gives them the ability to rapidly innovate based on that experience, when you look at every layer of the stack,” he said. “It’s like everything at scale. Everything fails all the time. You want to limit the scope of that failure. You don’t want it to go.”

The innovative collaboration between AWS and Caylent is meant to boost testing and feedback. For instance, this partnership came in handy in scrutinizing the scalability, efficiency and versatility of Amazon Nova models when it comes to video understanding, Hunt pointed out. 

“One of the things that has been great about partnering with AWS is that we’ve been able to lean in before the services are released so that we can provide actionable concrete feedback right away to our customers when the new service comes out,” he said. “Like the Nova models, we collaborated with AWS very tightly on testing those.”

As the cloud vs. on-prem debate lingers on, the cloud gets the upperhand in areas, such as cost-efficiency and scalability. By making cutting-edge technologies more accessible, flexible and impactful, the cloud drives innovation, cost savings and global connectivity like never before, according to Hunt.

“If you have competent operators and you have the capital necessary to buy and operate these servers and build the connectivity, if you can sustain a level of reliability that’s sufficient for your customers, it will absolutely be cheaper to go on prem,” he said. “But the downside is you’re now paying a DevOps tax, you’re paying a management tax. The second side of it is the evolution of things that can truly only be built inside of the cloud. You have to have AWS’s infrastructure to be able to build something like Aurora.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s “Cloud AWS re:Invent Coverage”:

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