Crayon achieves tenth AWS Competency expanding global cloud capabilities
Crayon, a global leader in innovation and IT services, announced today that it has achieved the AWS Storage Competency, marking a significant milestone in its cloud journey. This recognition highlights crayon’s deep expertise in delivering secure, scalable, and cost-effective storage solutions on AWS bringing the company’s total AWS competencies to ten globally, and is a first for the India team.
The AWS Storage Competency validates Crayon's capabilities across key areas – archival, backup and restore, business continuity and disaster recovery, and primary storage. Crayon India played a pivotal role in this achievement, successfully defending four customer use cases during a rigorous AWS audit:
LS Digital – Disaster Recovery
Metro Brands – Backup using Veeam (public case study)
A Financial Services company – Archival using Acronis
An IT company – Primary Storage and Disaster Recovery
The AWS Competency Program is designed to connect customers with AWS Partners who demonstrate advanced technical expertise and a strong track record of leveraging AWS best practices. These partners enable businesses across industries to adopt and integrate AWS technologies in ways that address their specific requirements.
The AWS Competency Program is designed to connect customers with AWS Partners who demonstrate advanced technical expertise and a strong track record of leveraging AWS best practices. These partners enable businesses across industries to adopt and integrate AWS technologies in ways that address their specific requirements.
Gaining the AWS Storage Competency is a strong validation of Crayon India’s capabilities and our strategic focus across Asia and MEA,” said Vikas Bhonsle, Executive Vice President. Asia & MEA. “It empowers our teams to deliver even greater value to customers, and positions Crayon as a trusted partner to support customers with complex storage migrations, disaster recovery strategies, and cloud-native backup solutions using leading third-party tools.”
“As Crayon continues to expand its AWS competencies, this achievement reflects our commitment to delivering best-in-class cloud solutions that meet the evolving needs of our customers,” said Melissa Mulholland, CEO of Crayon. “The Storage Competency not only validates our technical expertise, but it also reinforces our ability to support organizations in building resilient, scalable, and secure infrastructure on AWS.”
Since 2024, half of Crayon’s total competencies have expanded to include Data & Analytics, Cloud Operations, SaaS, Generative AI, Modernization and Storage, highlighting Crayon continued commitment to innovation and excellence in cloud services as a part of its AWS strategic collaboration agreement
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