AWS Taps Jeffrey Kratz To Lead Public Sector Partner Program
Summary
Amazon Web Services Monday named nine-year AWS veteran Jeffrey Kratz as the general manager of its worldwide public sector partner program. And whether that’s in the United States, to Singapore, to Chile, to Canada, to Germany and more, I look forward to learning more [about what is] top of mind of our partners, exceeding their expectations and moving with speed while we simplify. Kratz is working on a 100-day plan for his new role, and a couple of themes are coming into focus, including how to simplify AWS’ public sector partner business, which covers a broad area, including local, state and federal governments, transportation, education, nonprofits, health care and, in some countries, oil and gas. “Now we’ve got to keep moving fast.” Kratz’ first job at AWS in 2012 was managing director of international channel sales for the worldwide public sector program. Today, AWS is seeing a couple of big shifts throughout the public sector, including governments further accelerating their migrations to the cloud, not only because of the coronavirus pandemic, but to better-serve their citizens generally, according to Kratz.