ClearScale plans to nearly double its employee headcount within the next two years thanks to its growing success with enterprise customers who are choosing Amazon Web Services over Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, says CEO Pavel Pragin.

The San Francisco-based AWS Premier Partner says growth at ClearScale is being driven by customers wanting the most reliable and long-standing cloud provider for their application modernization and critical cloud transformation needs.

“If you’re going to invest millions of dollars and pick a public cloud partner that you may use for the next 10 years or more, you want to pick the one that’s the strongest in the market, has the best technology, the best customer service, continued innovation and is going to be there for a long time to come,” ClearScale CEO Pragin told CRN.

“All of that is Amazon,” Pragin said. “[Customers] want to make sure they’re putting their money on the right horse.”

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ClearScale All-In On AWS

ClearScale is a fast-growing cloud system integrator, consultant and application development solution provider who partners with AWS.

The company has obtained more than 10 AWS competencies, including recently achieving the AWS Digital Customer Experience Competency, with plans to expand both its employee headcount and global reach thanks to its AWS success.

“Today we’re at 300 employees,” said Pragin. “I wouldn’t be surprised if within two years, we would get to over 500 people at ClearScale. … I feel like we have a lot of horsepower now when it comes to driving business, closing business and really fueling our growth.”

AWS ‘Customer Obsession’ Mentality

Founded in 2011, ClearScale historically has been focused on SMB and startup customers.

However, the company has invested heavily in winning enterprise customers in recent years who are placing their cloud service bets on AWS versus other cloud competitors.

“Technology-wise, all three [AWS, Azure, Google] are going to be chasing after each other. Some of them are better than others in certain areas, but one of the things that Amazon focuses on is their customer obsession mentality and really being customer focused - that’s where a lot of the value is,” said Pragin.

In an interview with CRN, ClearScale’s CEO talks about AWS versus Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, application modernization cloud services that are driving sales, and the growth plans for his company.