CHICAGO, May 28, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mission, a managed services provider and Advanced Consulting Partner in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN), today announced its sponsorship and participation at AWS Summit Chicago. Attendees are invited to meet with Mission at booth #728 and learn how Mission’s cloud operations professionals and solutions architects enable cloud transformations and fully optimize AWS environments for customers across industries.
AWS Summit Chicago – held May 30th at the McCormick Place, West Building – is a free conference designed to bring together the cloud computing community to connect, collaborate, and learn about AWS. Following AWS Summit Chicago, Mission and CloudCheckr (a Mission partner) are hosting an after-hours event at Fatpour Tap Works - McCormick for any and all AWS representatives, customers, and attendees to relax with drinks and light food. The event begins at 7pm CDT; stop by the Mission booth for more information.
Mission is an established, award-winning provider of cloud managed services and consulting, with a coast-to-coast geographic presence and a customer base of more than 200 businesses spanning a breadth of industry verticals and use cases. Mission’s team of expert cloud consultants and solutions architects features nearly 100 AWS Certifications, and stands ready to assist customers in accomplishing their AWS goals and requirements by providing strategy consulting, migrations, architecture planning, solution design, security and governance, cost optimization, DevOps implementation, application performance management, and 24/7 managed services and support.
Mission achieved AWS Competency Partner status in several AWS Competencies, including the AWS Healthcare Competency, AWS Life Sciences Competency, and AWS DevOps Competency. The managed provider also brings particularly deep domain expertise in media & entertainment, game tech, digital media, SaaS, education, consumer goods, ecommerce, and marketing. These capabilities have contributed to Mission’s significant recent customer growth in the game tech, media & entertainment, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), and healthcare and life sciences industries.
Mission CTO Jonathan LaCour will also be speaking from experience on how to leverage AWS Lambda, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon API Gateway, and Amazon QuickSight to build an Internet of Things (IoT) application. The 12:30pm session, “Lessons from the Backyard: A Connected BBQ Grill and Smoker,” details how LaCour leveraged these technologies to enable his grill and smoker to stream data about his cooking to an Amazon S3 data lake (complete with enabling an Amazon Alexa skill, data visualization, social media integration). “I expect this session to leave attendees both better informed on how to utilize different AWS solutions together for IoT applications, and hungry for BBQ ribs,” LaCour said.
“AWS Summits consistently provide a fantastic atmosphere for meeting like-minded organizations who understand how transformative AWS can be for their businesses,” said Ted Stuart, Chief Revenue Officer, Mission. “We look forward to our first AWS Summit Chicago and see it as a particularly important event in advance of building out our Chicago operations this year. If you’re ready to take advantage of all that a well-optimized AWS strategy and deployment can deliver, stop by the Mission booth.”
Customers can connect with Mission and explore its offerings – including free on-demand consultations with AWS-certified solutions architects – at missioncloud.com
About Mission
Mission is a trusted managed services provider and consulting partner for businesses using – or migrating to – Amazon Web Services (AWS). Through its dedicated team of expert cloud operations professionals and solutions architects, Mission delivers a unique breadth and depth of AWS-recognized technical and strategic proficiencies. Mission combines this know-how with an anything-is-possible belief in the power of cloud transformation through AWS, and a dedication to understanding and solving customers’ individual goals and challenges – enabling their development of new and powerful applications running on AWS. Follow Mission on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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