What’s in an Amazon Web Services Inc. certification? Is it just a fancy label the company slaps on its buddies’ run-of-the-mill products? Let’s ask a bona fide AWS partner decorated with the Managed Service Provider certification.

The short answer is, no, according to Dave Shacochis, vice president of product management at CenturyLink Inc. It jumped through a number of flaming hoops to make the grade.

“It really made our service better,” he said.

Shacochis spoke with John Walls, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, and guest host Justin Warren, chief analyst at PivotNine Pty Ltd, during AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas. They discussed CenturyLink’s AWS certification and the network bonus it offers customers.

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