7. Jeffrey Kratz, AWS
He may have big shoes to fill by replacing AWS’ Sandy Carter, but Jeffrey Kratz is making a mark in his own way. Kratz, general manager of AWS’ worldwide public sector partner program, gave the keynote speech this week at the AWS Public Sector Summit in Washington, D.C., geared toward, well, public sector partners.
His speech made waves for highlighting how AWS is teaming with SAP NS2 Labs, SAP and Verizon. (SAP built NS2 Labs specifically for the national security community.) Together the companies will deploy a 5G cell within NS2 Labs in Chantilly, Virginia, for computing use cases that rely on 5G and the edge.
AWS will provide its Outposts infrastructure and services for the effort.
“The combination of Verizon 5G with AWS Secure Hybrid Edge capabilities will allow partners and customers in all locations — in both the commercial and public sector — to process larger amounts of data while meeting compliance requirements around data sovereignty,” Kratz said.
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