Portworx by Pure Storage announces strategic engagement with AWS

Pure Storage^® has formed a strategic engagement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) for solution development and enablement programs for Pure’s Portworx solutions to assist enterprises move Kubernetes workloads into production, said a company statement.

According to the company, Portworx by Pure Storage can provide customers with a fully integrated solution for persistent storage, data protection, disaster recovery, data security, cross-region and hybrid data migrations, and automated capacity management for Kubernetes applications built by developers.

Portworx Enterprise gets directly to the heart of what developers and Kubernetes administrators want: data that behave like a cloud service. These users want to simply request storage depending on their needs and let the data management layer handle the details.

Portworx PX-Backup delivers enterprise-grade point-and-click backup and recovery for any Kubernetes applications, even stateless ones.

“Portworx and Amazon EKS deliver a truly better together solution that tackles some of the biggest challenges organizations face when bringing Kubernetes applications to enterprise scale,” said Murli Thirumale, VP and General Manager, Cloud Native Business Unit, Pure Storage. “We are excited by the results we’ve seen from our many joint customers who are using our solutions together today, and look forward to being able to accelerate Kubernetes applications for many more as a result of our expanded relationship with AWS, including our new Portworx Backup as-a-Service offering on AWS.”

Portworx has also launched an Early Access Program for Portworx Backup as-a-Service (BaaS) on AWS as part of its engagement with AWS. Portworx BaaS delivers a new data protection control plane to expedite the implementation of data and application recovery goals, giving speed and simplicity to application owners while preserving Kubernetes applications.

Pure Storage also intends to provide Portworx BaaS as one of several as-a-Service options to its clients in the future.

“As more and more organizations adopt containers and Kubernetes to build and modernize applications, solutions that accelerate their journey to the cloud create significant value,” said Deepak Singh, VP Compute Services, AWS.

“We are excited to work with Portworx to provide customers another option for backup and data management on Amazon EKS,” Singh added.

This three-year strategic investment is the next stage in the expansion of Pure Storage’s collaboration with AWS, and it will provide a comprehensive Kubernetes platform for joint customers moving applications into production.