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(upbeat music) - Hello, everyone. I'm Audrey Benjamin, and I'm the director of Business Development for Digital Velocity here at CDW. Today I'm joined with Arun Sundaram who leads our cloud practice. Arun, what's going on? - Hey, Audrey. Things are great. Staying busy after an energizing week in Vegas. - So Arun and I both just got back from AWS re:Invent, and, man, I have to say, what an incredible week. Tons of buzz on the Vegas strip. Lots going on. Arun, what were some of your big takeaways? - Yeah, it was incredible momentum at the conference. It was filled with innovation and exciting announcements, so it was fantastic meeting customers. We discussed their challenges and the opportunities that presents. Our partners also, we had amazing meetings with them in collaboration. Overall, the synergy after the announcement of Mission Cloud acquisition, it offers an unparalleled customer experience, combining like deep knowledge and strong relationships with AWS. It's truly a winning combination. - The Mission acquisition was definitely the talk of the town in Vegas at re:Invent. I'm so excited that you brought that up. Not only did CDW walk away with one partner award, but we also won one with Mission. So our CDW team walked away with AWS's Marketplace Channel Partner of the Year award, and our Mission team won Security Partner of the Year. So, Arun, you've mentioned, you know, some of the exciting customer meetings, you know, some of the big announcements from AWS, the partner meetings. How do you see CDW positioned to help organizations tackle some of their biggest cloud and AI challenges? - Yeah, AI is clearly the big, big thing right now, right? Like with so many exciting announcements about new managed features in Bedrock, SageMaker, and Amazon Q. This just shows that the platform is matured, as workloads evolve from proof of concept and pilots to more production workloads where security governance and operational requirements are more critical. So this is where we come in. As trusted technology advisors to our customers, we can excel at simplifying complex technologies to deliver the best outcomes to the customers. So cloud and AI, because of the rapid speed of innovation and change, is extremely complex, and we are best suited to help our customers adopt these more effectively. - Well put, Arun. So AWS re:Invent, always a must attend event. I'm already thinking about some of the crazy AI enhancements that are gonna come out next year. Thank you everyone for tuning in. And of course, Arun, thank you for joining me today. If you have any questions about AI or AWS or how CDW can get you to where you need to be, please reach out to myself and Arun anytime. Thanks so much, everyone. (upbeat music)