"Chef is one of the leading offerings for DevOps workflows, which engineers and developers depend on to accelerate their businesses,” said Dave McCann, vice president, AWS Marketplace. “Our customers want easy-to-use software like Chef that is available for immediate purchase and deployment in AWS Marketplace. This new partnership demonstrates our focus on offering low-friction DevOps tools to power customers’ businesses."
“Chef is excited to expand our collaboration with AWS. AWS’s market leadership in cloud computing, coupled with our expertise in IT automation and DevOps practices, brings a new level of capabilities to our customers,” said Ken Cheney, vice president of business development, Chef. “Together, we’re delivering a single source for automation, cloud, and DevOps, so businesses everywhere can spend minimal calories on managing infrastructure and maximise their ability to develop the software driving today’s economy.”
According to research firm Gartner, Inc., “By 2016, DevOps will evolve from a niche strategy employed by large cloud providers to a mainstream strategy employed by 25 percent of Global 2000 organizations.”
Chef has distilled the DevOps success patterns of its most innovative customers into an automation platform and services offering that provides AWS customers with advanced software development practices to manage change in the cloud.
Cloud computing is driving the transformation of infrastructure and applications into services, meaning IT is tasked with managing constant change at scale. Building on current field and engineering efforts, Chef and AWS are making it easier for businesses across the globe to migrate to, deploy, automate, and manage change in the cloud. Using Chef, any organization can easily migrate workloads from on-premises data centers to AWS, future-proofing IT with maximum flexibility.
Today a diverse and rapidly growing group of customers, including Adobe, Ancestry.com, Intuit, Scholastic, the University of Pennsylvania, and many more, use Chef and AWS together to speed software delivery and minimize infrastructure management and costs.
Go-to-Market Highlights:
- Chef in AWS Marketplace - AWS customers can now purchase Chef with 1-Click Deployment in AWS Marketplace, delivering a fully integrated and easy-to-use solution for automating workloads in AWS. AWS users can consume Chef at an hourly rate, paying as they scale their AWS resources. Chef provides a single platform for automating cloud deployments, enabling users to manage their entire infrastructure and seamlessly migrate workloads between different IT environments.
- Chef Brings DevOps to AWS Summit and Loft - Chef provides tailored training and content at both AWS Lofts locations in San Francisco and New York focused on using DevOps success patterns - including iterative and test-driven development, continuous delivery, and cross-team collaboration - in combination with Chef’s IT automation platform to extract maximum value from the AWS Cloud.
