Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Slalom have entered into a new multi-year, global alliance to build joint AWS | Slalom Launch Centers. The idea is to accelerate customers’ migration to the cloud and help them modernize their IT services.

As part of the relationship, three Launch Centers will initially open in Seattle, Chicago, and Atlanta with plans to open more centers around the world within in the next three years. The Launch Centers will help customers to accelerate their IT modernization and migration strategies to achieve fully optimized, cloud based operating models.

The Launch Centers combine AWS Professional Services, a global team of AWS experts who help customers reach their desired outcomes with the cloud, with Slalom business transformation, software engineering, and analytics capabilities to address these customer transformations. Mutual AWS and Slalom customers can temporarily relocate their IT teams to work from designated Launch Centers, the company said.

The Launch Centers will help customers with expediting their initial digital launches to the AWS Cloud. They will also offer a customized approach to scale their competencies and processes for the future on AWS.