Tableau Software expanded its strategic relationship with Amazon Web Services, Inc. announced Modern Cloud Analytics designed to help customers unlock the power and flexibility of self-service analytics in the cloud. MCA leverages the analytics and cloud expertise of two industry pioneers and taps the vast resources and deep technical knowledge of their partner networks to provide a blueprint for migrating their analytics to the cloud. From Disney to Expedia, thousands of pioneering organizations use AWS and Tableau to uncover insights and deliver business value through their data. MCA extends an established relationship and builds upon existing integrations between Tableau and AWS including native data connectors to services like Amazon Redshift and Amazon Athena as well as AWS Quick Start deployment guides to deliver guiding principles and proven migration methodologies that empower customers on their journey to a modern analytics platform. The first phase of MCA is focused on helping customers realize the benefits of a cloud-based analytics strategy by migrating their data and analytics workloads to AWS. Launch partners InterWorks, Slalom and TEKsystems, have each established MCA-based programs to assist customers in the migration process, delivering faster time-to-value for Tableau deployments: AWS can help customers lower operational costs, improve scalability and optimize their Tableau subscription-based licensing with flexible AWS compute resources, validated migration processes to mitigate risk: Tableau and AWS are equipping MCA partners with new, prescriptive migration guidance, application architecture, tooling and operating models to offer an improved, streamlined migration experience for customers, reduced customer cost: Tableau and AWS are investing in MCA partners to offer assessments, proof-of-concepts, and deployment and support services to ensure efficient, cost-effective cloud migrations.