IT services and solutions provider CSC has partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to launch a Global Cloud Center of Excellence (CoE) in Austin, with the goal of focusing on the enterprise and public sector cloud markets. The CoE will provide training to CSC consultants so they can be certified on AWS and employ AWS best practices.

According to CSC, the CoE will enable customers to accelerate the development, migration and transformation of enterprise workloads to AWS, as well as the integration of private and hybrid clouds, including CSC BizCloud.

Using CSC's global consulting services arm and technology solutions, as well as AWS services and support, the CoE is based around CSC's ServiceMesh Agility Platform and AWS management and security offerings. The CoE is being designed to automate the deployment and management of enterprise applications and platforms, as well as to ensure the enforcement of governance, compliance and security policies.

"CSC's enterprise experience and AWS' leadership in cloud computing creates a natural alignment in addressing the growing market challenge of providing customers with greater choice, safety and agility in adopting the hybrid cloud," said Dan Hushon, CTO of CSC, in a prepared statement. "We will employ our application modernization, Global Cloud CoE, ServiceMesh Agility Platform and CSC BizCloud with the growing set of AWS services to empower enterprises as they execute their technology strategies, and drive a common industry approach to the hybridization of enterprise workloads."

Although CSC's marketing for the cloud services that will be available through the CoE speaks to enterprises, it wouldn't be beyond the realm of possibility that the company is also targeting the public sector. Considering the focus on compliance conformation, it would be little surprise; and it's an ever-growing market with the feds' cloud first policies.

Only a handful of integrators have the capital and resources to assemble such a cloud initiative, but smaller providers can likely play similar roles on a scale befitting their own situations.