from our studios in the heart of Silicon Valley Palo Alto California this is a cute conversation hello and welcome to the cube studios in Palo Alto California for another cube conversation where we go in-depth with thought leaders driving innovation across the tech industry I'm your host Peter Burris Michael Siegel is the product manager or area vice-president strategic alliances and net scout systems Michael we are sitting here in the cube studios in Palo Alto in November of 2019 reinvent 2009 teens right around the corner net scout and AWS are looking to do some interesting things once you give us an update of what's happening yeah just a very brief introduction of what net Scout actually does so net scout assures service performance and security for the largest enterprises and service provider in the world we do it through something we refer to as visibility without borders by providing actionable intelligence necessary to very quickly identify the root cause of either performance on security issues so with that net Scout partnering very closely with AWS we are an advanced technology partner which is the highest tier for ice fees of partnership this enables us to partner with AWS on a wide range of activities including technology alignment with roadmap and participating in different launch activities of new functionality from AWS it enables us to have go-to-market activities together focusing on key campaigns that are relevant for both AWS and net Scout and it enables us also to collaborate on sales initiatives so with this wide range of activities what we can offer is a win-win-win situation for our customers for AWS and for net scout so from customers perspective beyond the fact that net Scout offering is available in AWS marketplace now this visibility without borders that I mentioned helps our customers to navigate through their digital transformation journey and migrate to AWS more effectively from AWS perspective the wienies their resources are now consumed by the largest enterprises in the world so it accelerates the consumption of compute storage networking database resources in AWS and fournette scout this is strategically important because now net Scout becoming a strategic partner to our large enterprise customers as they navigate their digital transformation journey so that's why it's really important for us to collaborate very very efficiently with AWS it's important to our customers and it's important to AWS Michael Siegel net Scout systems thanks very much for being on the tube thank you for having me and once again we'd like to thank you for joining us for another cube conversation until next time