Accenture has agreed to acquire Gekko, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud services company in France.
The acquisition would expand Accenture’s AWS resources in France to support enterprise migrations and development on cloud platforms.
Gekko has more than 100 trained cloud professionals providing consulting, integration and managed services on AWS. Gekko has more than 85 AWS certifications. Gekko is an AWS Advanced Partner, holds an AWS competency in Storage and is an AWS Authorized Training partner. Gekko is also part of the AWS Solution Provider and Well Architected Framework program.
Since its inception in 2015, Gekko has helped more than 80 clients, including some of the largest French companies, design, deploy and maintain a flexible, connected and secure cloud infrastructure.
Roland Esnis and Julien Favre are the co-founders and CEOs of Gekko.
This acquisition would strengthen Accenture’s positions with key providers in the Cloud and AI, including ecosystem partners such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft. Accenture’s AWS community consists of more than 8,000 AWS trained professionals that hold over 5,500 AWS certification.
