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Julia Chen, AWS & Valerie Henderson, Caylent

Julia Chen

VP Partner Core AWS

Valerie Henderson

CEO Caylent

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Gemma Allen

>> Welcome back to theCUBE coverage. We are here at the Javits Center in New York. It's AWS Summit 2026 and we are bringing you all the live action on the ground, talking to some of the true builders, breakers, and disruptors helping shape this next wave of the AWS ecosystem. Joining me now are two ladies core to that mission, Julia Chen, VP of AWS Partner Core and Val Henderson, CEO Caylent. Welcome, ladies.

Valerie Henderson

>> Thank you.

Julia Chen

>> Thank you.

Valerie Henderson

>> So excited to be here.

Gemma Allen

>> So excited to have you too. So let's start with Caylent. What is it exactly that you guys do? Break it down for me. Give me the one-on-one on the company.

Valerie Henderson

>> Yeah. Simply we exist to solve customer problems, and our CTO loves to say we build the coolest stuff on AWS, but the end of the day we can help customers from infrastructure, meaning migrating to AWS, all the way through evolving their customer experience and how they're integrating AI and agents into their own product. So we can really help from the full scale journey of where customers are, and they're each in a different place. And I think customers need you to meet them where they are.

Gemma Allen

>> And Julia, I know that Caylent is a very dedicated AWS partner, right?

Julia Chen

>> Yes.

Valerie Henderson

>> Yes.

Gemma Allen

>> Yeah.

Julia Chen

>> We're all in and we love it.

Valerie Henderson

>> Yes.

Julia Chen

>> We love it.

Valerie Henderson

>> I love AWS.

Gemma Allen

>> Talk me through a little bit about your organization and your relationship with key partners and builders and enablers, I guess, like Val.

Julia Chen

>> Yeah, so I run an organization called Partner Core, which is a lot of the foundational capabilities that we have when we work with our partners. So it's all the partner programs, incentive programs, the strategic collaborations, enablement, the digital interface, and several special initiatives. And Val and I have a fantastic relationship many, many years. I think our organizations have worked very well together. They're very quick, they pilot a lot of things with us, and so we love working with them because we are very innovative, they're very innovative, but we need to keep testing and iterating between ourselves like she tells us-

Valerie Henderson

>> And push each other.

Julia Chen

>> And push each other.

Valerie Henderson

>> Yeah.

Julia Chen

>> Yes. So she tells us what's working, what's not working, we have to adjust it and then we do it again. But it's very important that we have partners like Val and Caylent because they really help us accelerate and go faster and make ourselves better.

Valerie Henderson

>> Yeah.

Gemma Allen

>> I love that. I love to push each other, right?

Valerie Henderson

>> Yes.

Gemma Allen

>> It's so important because this is, at the end of the day, a partnership above all else, and an ecosystem that compounds. So when I think about a company like Caylent, day in your life, Val, you're working across such a monolithic stack of technology here, right?

Valerie Henderson

>> Yeah.

Gemma Allen

>> I'm sure you're solving all different types of customer problems. I know there was some very interesting announcements yesterday for partners of AWS. What is really exciting you both right now? Like what's changing, what's shifting, and where are you trying to at least where you can, prioritize?

Valerie Henderson

>> Yeah. Well, number one, I think there's so much noise and there is so much complexity right now. You have to simplify for customers. And I think a big part of that is about being clear about what you can do, and working backwards, which is an AWS technique we've been using forever of like, start with what you need, the outcome, and what you need to do to work backwards. I think what we're most excited about is the partnership. We've signed a strategic collaboration agreement, which is basically AWS's investment in Caylent so we can invest back in our customers. And one of the key parts of that is our agentic AI cloud operations platform. And that wouldn't exist without the investment that they've made to AgentCore and how that looks at scale for customers. But imagine we have a decade plus of experience of receiving tickets and issues and now we can actually do that without human beings looking, touching. It's all agents doing the work, helping on the tickets, just cut down the time to resolution significantly. And we couldn't do that without this partnership in the way that they've invested in that platform.

Gemma Allen

>> Wow. And for you, Julia, we had a colleague of yours on earlier, and he said at AWS, every day is day one, right?

Julia Chen

>> Yes, it is.

Gemma Allen

>> That is the mission. And there is so much happening and shifting. How do you think about this moment, this summit, even this week alone, in terms of the news and announcements as it relates to your partnership like this great one?

Julia Chen

>> Absolutely. So I mean we talked about, there's so many announcements, and I think we love saying it's always day one at AWS, at Amazon in fact. It's always day one, we're always inventing, we're always innovating. And this moment for us is really about how AI unleashes business outcomes. Right?

Valerie Henderson

>> Yeah. .

Julia Chen

>> And so it's always been about business outcomes. To Val's point, it's always been working backwards from whatever the customer needs solved. But with this AI capability, I think there's some hype, but there's some not hype where it really is, there's a lot of capability that's being delivered at an incredible pace. And so we're agentifying a lot of things, like we have partners help us with migration and modernization of customers stack all the way onto the cloud. That's being agentified as well. We're putting out tools and we're putting out enablement that's all agentic that's helping them do that so much faster. Managed services is another thing, which is managed services has existed for years and years and years, but right now customers need help managing a lot of the new agentic capabilities that they have.

Valerie Henderson

>> That's right.

Julia Chen

>> And also we're adding agentic capabilities to managed services. So maybe I'll throw another one in, which is co-sell, right?

Valerie Henderson

>> Mm-hmm.

Julia Chen

>> Which is that co-sell has historically been kind of a tedious person to person interaction. I like you, you like me and I'll bring you into the deal. But now with agentic capabilities, it doesn't have to be like that. We can look through all the data and say, "Actually co-sell should happen here. Let's facilitate everything up to that point," and then in the end, the humans will walk in together. But there were a lot of things that were happening behind the scenes before that doesn't need to be human to human.

Valerie Henderson

>> Yeah.

Gemma Allen

>> So you gave a great example of customer service, right? I think a lot of folks can visualize AI and the gentrification of that space. Because it's repeatable, there's pattern, it's kind of ripe for that type of disruption.

Valerie Henderson

>> Yeah.

Gemma Allen

>> What other sorts of spaces like use cases, customer scenarios, are you seeing, and how truly ready do you think enterprises are broadly, for the world of agentic?

Valerie Henderson

>> Yeah, I think they're all at a different point in that scale. I think the thing that gets me excited is there's so much work that couldn't necessarily be done in the time that it needed to be done, and so customers were just not pushing themselves to modernize, because of the technical debt that accumulated. AI is changing that. We're talking about being able to take a database and migrate it where it would've taken a year to three months. Sometimes we can take something six months to three weeks. And that is such a key part by the way of the AI journey, you have to build on a very solid foundation. And that is what AWS has offered with Bedrock, of the guardrails. And a lot of customers have gone first party with Anthropic and OpenAI, but with Bedrock you get such a solid foundation and security, and you've got this carousel model that gives you optionality for the right model for the right use case.

Gemma Allen

>> I mean, Julia, you also have the credibility, the legitimacy, and the security, and expectation that comes with AWS, right?

Julia Chen

>> Absolutely.

Gemma Allen

>> Which is critical, especially in a world right now where it's all about speed. It's like act now, think later.

Valerie Henderson

>> Yes.

Julia Chen

>> Yes.

Gemma Allen

>> Which is kind of scary when you think about it.

Julia Chen

>> It's super scary. Right? It is super scary.

Gemma Allen

>> What are you seeing and hearing from partners and customers that you talk to every day? Bring that to life for me a little bit, in terms of the build versus buy conversation when technology is shifting so fast.

Julia Chen

>> It is shifting so fast. And when I talk to customers and partners, a lot of them are scared, right? They're worried because they don't know what will happen. And so that's why a lot of these AgentCore announcements, as Val was saying, they're really important, because you don't know what the AI is going to do sometimes, and sometimes speed can lead to mistakes, and some of the mistakes are, we call them one way and two way doors. Some of the mistakes are two way doors and they're fine and you'll recover from them, but some of them are one way doors and they can be really, really dire if you make a mistake. And so for us, we've always said at AWS, security is job zero, which means that security must come first. And so we approach our AI certainly with speed, but with the guardrails in place to make sure that the data stays secure, that you're watching out on the agents, you're able to audit them in a closed loop way. I think all of that is very important as you innovate in this space, because there are situations. I mean, we've read about them in the news, I think all of us have read about them in the news, which is if you're not careful, sometimes bad things can happen, right?

Valerie Henderson

>> Yeah.

Julia Chen

>> With agents and any other new tech.

Gemma Allen

>> And there's just a whole new vector of threat too, right? In terms of how we use technology in our personal lives, how that feeds into our work life. We're all guilty of maybe using ChatGPT to do our homework a little bit, and I certainly am.

Julia Chen

>> No.

Gemma Allen

>> What sorts of, I guess, scenarios are you both seeing from the kind of partners and customers that you work with, in terms of managing that risk, and also managing risk, but ensuring that things are happening at market pace, at that pace of competition, which surely is faster, I think than it's ever been.

Julia Chen

>> Yes.

Valerie Henderson

>> Yeah. I think people by nature overestimate what will happen in the short term and underestimate the long term. One thing that I think is really interesting is we have a dedicated practice that's focused on Anthropic. They are an excellent AWS partner and I think the Bedrock story is really special. And for us, we are still finding the education and the enablement piece within these organizations is so important. Because for someone to use it responsibly, they need to know what that looks like. There is always the trailblazers, but there is a middle 60 within these organizations that need help to be activated. And I think people, humans in the loop ,need to be taught, this is what good looks like. And I think that people have underestimated how important that is, and you do have to take a step back to take two steps forward right now. You do.

Gemma Allen

>> Julia, you're working across so many developments all the time, right? AWS is accelerating at the pace of sound it feels like. And I know no one should have a favorite child. No mom should have a favorite child, but of all of the developments that we're seeing and hearing today, what really excites you? Like you and your team, where do you see some immediate opportunity that maybe didn't exist even six months to 12 months ago?

Julia Chen

>> So I think, oh, it's hard to have a favorite child. Okay. But just from my personal experience, I will say Quick is amazing. So my team and I use Quick daily. Quick is almost like a portal to all of the different agentic capabilities behind the scenes. But if you listen to Swami's keynote today, he really broke it down, I thought very clearly, which is to say, in the past the thing that has slowed progress has been siloed data, siloed processes, siloed people. And what Quick is amazing at is it connects it all and it lets you talk to it in natural language and it can pull all of the answers across. And we've really seen the power of that. So if we've seen it, like we're excited for our customers to see it, I know our partners use it. So for me, that's actually the most exciting one.

Gemma Allen

>> So ladies, what's ahead? I mean, it's June 2026, this world is moving and changing fast, things are shifting, expectations are shifting. One year from now, what are the big goals you hope you'll ?

Valerie Henderson

>> Oh. For me, I always think about how do we 10X the value to our customers? And I think that we're always iterating on that. The ethos of our company is, "Only the paranoid survive." And so we're always thinking about-

Gemma Allen

>> Love that....

Valerie Henderson

>> "Okay, we exist to serve customers, what are they going to need?" And just making sure that we're working to see around corners. I think it would be silly of me to say what it's going to look like in a year, but I think if we're focused on customers and outcomes, we're going to be able to continue growing and working with AWS along the way to do so.

Gemma Allen

>> And for you, Julia, as you look across your broad partner network, what are the big bets for, I guess, at least the end of this year, through to 2027?

Julia Chen

>> I mean, I have a big bet right now going on agentic managed services. So I really do believe that more and more as this gets complex and a little risky sometimes, I do think that customers will call on our partners more and more to help them see around the corners and to help them manage and to help be another pair of eyes on how all this transformation's going. I think the transformation is going to be enormous and incredible and unique to each company, but I do think they will want another pair of eyes and hands to help them through it, because it is complicated, right?

Valerie Henderson

>> Yeah.

Julia Chen

>> And companies like Caylent, they see many, many different customers and so they have that pattern recognition and the data points to be able to walk many customers through this journey.

Valerie Henderson

>> Yeah. I want people to see how amazing AI is. I think sometimes people can see how underbelly and the scary and focus on that. So much opportunity and the creativity it unlocks. I really am excited about the future.

Gemma Allen

>> Well, I love that. And I have to say, Val, you have given me my maybe phrase of the week. The ethos, "Only the paranoid survive.".

Julia Chen

>> Yeah. Love that.

Valerie Henderson

>> That is not me, by the way. That's an Intel old, but we do-

Gemma Allen

>> But it's fantastic.

Valerie Henderson

>> By the way, we have bracelets that-

Julia Chen

>> Wow....

Valerie Henderson

>> say OTPS, "Only the paranoid..." Everybody gets one when you join.

Gemma Allen

>> I absolutely love that.

Julia Chen

>> That's amazing.

Valerie Henderson

>> Yeah.

Gemma Allen

>> Well, Julia, Val, thank you so much for joining us in theCUBE.

Valerie Henderson

>> Thank you for having us.

Julia Chen

>> Awesome. Thank you for having us.

Gemma Allen

>> I'm Gemma Allen, coming to you with theCUBE coverage here on the ground at the Javits Center in New York. It's AWS Summit 2026, bringing you all of the live action. That's a wrap on today. Thank you so much for joining us. Stay tuned. Check out thecube.net for all of our life coverage from today's summit.

Julia Chen, AWS & Valerie Henderson, Caylent

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Gemma Allen

>> Welcome back to theCUBE coverage. We are here at the Javits Center in New York. It's AWS Summit 2026 and we are bringing you all the live action on the ground, talking to some of the true builders, breakers, and disruptors helping shape this next wave of the AWS ecosystem. Joining me now are two ladies core to that mission, Julia Chen, VP of AWS Partner Core and Val Henderson, CEO Caylent. Welcome, ladies.

Valerie Henderson

>> Thank you.

Julia Chen

>> Thank you.

Valerie Henderson

>> So excited to be here.

Gemma Allen

>> So excited to have you too. So let's start with Caylent. What is it exactly that you guys do? Break it down for me. Give me the one-on-one on the company.

Valerie Henderson

>> Yeah. Simply we exist to solve customer problems, and our CTO loves to say we build the coolest stuff on AWS, but the end of the day we can help customers from infrastructure, meaning migrating to AWS, all the way through evolving their customer experience and how they're integrating AI and agents into their own product. So we can really help from the full scale journey of where customers are, and they're each in a different place. And I think customers need you to meet them where they are.

Gemma Allen

>> And Julia, I know that Caylent is a very dedicated AWS partner, right?

Julia Chen

>> Yes.

Valerie Henderson

>> Yes.

Gemma Allen

>> Yeah.

Julia Chen

>> We're all in and we love it.

Valerie Henderson

>> Yes.

Julia Chen

>> We love it.

Valerie Henderson

>> I love AWS.

Gemma Allen

>> Talk me through a little bit about your organization and your relationship with key partners and builders and enablers, I guess, like Val.

Julia Chen

>> Yeah, so I run an organization called Partner Core, which is a lot of the foundational capabilities that we have when we work with our partners. So it's all the partner programs, incentive programs, the strategic collaborations, enablement, the digital interface, and several special initiatives. And Val and I have a fantastic relationship many, many years. I think our organizations have worked very well together. They're very quick, they pilot a lot of things with us, and so we love working with them because we are very innovative, they're very innovative, but we need to keep testing and iterating between ourselves like she tells us-

Valerie Henderson

>> And push each other.

Julia Chen

>> And push each other.

Valerie Henderson

>> Yeah.

Julia Chen

>> Yes. So she tells us what's working, what's not working, we have to adjust it and then we do it again. But it's very important that we have partners like Val and Caylent because they really help us accelerate and go faster and make ourselves better.

Valerie Henderson

>> Yeah.

Gemma Allen

>> I love that. I love to push each other, right?

Valerie Henderson

>> Yes.

Gemma Allen

>> It's so important because this is, at the end of the day, a partnership above all else, and an ecosystem that compounds. So when I think about a company like Caylent, day in your life, Val, you're working across such a monolithic stack of technology here, right?

Valerie Henderson

>> Yeah.

Gemma Allen

>> I'm sure you're solving all different types of customer problems. I know there was some very interesting announcements yesterday for partners of AWS. What is really exciting you both right now? Like what's changing, what's shifting, and where are you trying to at least where you can, prioritize?

Valerie Henderson

>> Yeah. Well, number one, I think there's so much noise and there is so much complexity right now. You have to simplify for customers. And I think a big part of that is about being clear about what you can do, and working backwards, which is an AWS technique we've been using forever of like, start with what you need, the outcome, and what you need to do to work backwards. I think what we're most excited about is the partnership. We've signed a strategic collaboration agreement, which is basically AWS's investment in Caylent so we can invest back in our customers. And one of the key parts of that is our agentic AI cloud operations platform. And that wouldn't exist without the investment that they've made to AgentCore and how that looks at scale for customers. But imagine we have a decade plus of experience of receiving tickets and issues and now we can actually do that without human beings looking, touching. It's all agents doing the work, helping on the tickets, just cut down the time to resolution significantly. And we couldn't do that without this partnership in the way that they've invested in that platform.

Gemma Allen

>> Wow. And for you, Julia, we had a colleague of yours on earlier, and he said at AWS, every day is day one, right?

Julia Chen

>> Yes, it is.

Gemma Allen

>> That is the mission. And there is so much happening and shifting. How do you think about this moment, this summit, even this week alone, in terms of the news and announcements as it relates to your partnership like this great one?

Julia Chen

>> Absolutely. So I mean we talked about, there's so many announcements, and I think we love saying it's always day one at AWS, at Amazon in fact. It's always day one, we're always inventing, we're always innovating. And this moment for us is really about how AI unleashes business outcomes. Right?

Valerie Henderson

>> Yeah. .

Julia Chen

>> And so it's always been about business outcomes. To Val's point, it's always been working backwards from whatever the customer needs solved. But with this AI capability, I think there's some hype, but there's some not hype where it really is, there's a lot of capability that's being delivered at an incredible pace. And so we're agentifying a lot of things, like we have partners help us with migration and modernization of customers stack all the way onto the cloud. That's being agentified as well. We're putting out tools and we're putting out enablement that's all agentic that's helping them do that so much faster. Managed services is another thing, which is managed services has existed for years and years and years, but right now customers need help managing a lot of the new agentic capabilities that they have.

Valerie Henderson

>> That's right.

Julia Chen

>> And also we're adding agentic capabilities to managed services. So maybe I'll throw another one in, which is co-sell, right?

Valerie Henderson

>> Mm-hmm.

Julia Chen

>> Which is that co-sell has historically been kind of a tedious person to person interaction. I like you, you like me and I'll bring you into the deal. But now with agentic capabilities, it doesn't have to be like that. We can look through all the data and say, "Actually co-sell should happen here. Let's facilitate everything up to that point," and then in the end, the humans will walk in together. But there were a lot of things that were happening behind the scenes before that doesn't need to be human to human.

Valerie Henderson

>> Yeah.

Gemma Allen

>> So you gave a great example of customer service, right? I think a lot of folks can visualize AI and the gentrification of that space. Because it's repeatable, there's pattern, it's kind of ripe for that type of disruption.

Valerie Henderson

>> Yeah.

Gemma Allen

>> What other sorts of spaces like use cases, customer scenarios, are you seeing, and how truly ready do you think enterprises are broadly, for the world of agentic?

Valerie Henderson

>> Yeah, I think they're all at a different point in that scale. I think the thing that gets me excited is there's so much work that couldn't necessarily be done in the time that it needed to be done, and so customers were just not pushing themselves to modernize, because of the technical debt that accumulated. AI is changing that. We're talking about being able to take a database and migrate it where it would've taken a year to three months. Sometimes we can take something six months to three weeks. And that is such a key part by the way of the AI journey, you have to build on a very solid foundation. And that is what AWS has offered with Bedrock, of the guardrails. And a lot of customers have gone first party with Anthropic and OpenAI, but with Bedrock you get such a solid foundation and security, and you've got this carousel model that gives you optionality for the right model for the right use case.

Gemma Allen

>> I mean, Julia, you also have the credibility, the legitimacy, and the security, and expectation that comes with AWS, right?

Julia Chen

>> Absolutely.

Gemma Allen

>> Which is critical, especially in a world right now where it's all about speed. It's like act now, think later.

Valerie Henderson

>> Yes.

Julia Chen

>> Yes.

Gemma Allen

>> Which is kind of scary when you think about it.

Julia Chen

>> It's super scary. Right? It is super scary.

Gemma Allen

>> What are you seeing and hearing from partners and customers that you talk to every day? Bring that to life for me a little bit, in terms of the build versus buy conversation when technology is shifting so fast.

Julia Chen

>> It is shifting so fast. And when I talk to customers and partners, a lot of them are scared, right? They're worried because they don't know what will happen. And so that's why a lot of these AgentCore announcements, as Val was saying, they're really important, because you don't know what the AI is going to do sometimes, and sometimes speed can lead to mistakes, and some of the mistakes are, we call them one way and two way doors. Some of the mistakes are two way doors and they're fine and you'll recover from them, but some of them are one way doors and they can be really, really dire if you make a mistake. And so for us, we've always said at AWS, security is job zero, which means that security must come first. And so we approach our AI certainly with speed, but with the guardrails in place to make sure that the data stays secure, that you're watching out on the agents, you're able to audit them in a closed loop way. I think all of that is very important as you innovate in this space, because there are situations. I mean, we've read about them in the news, I think all of us have read about them in the news, which is if you're not careful, sometimes bad things can happen, right?

Valerie Henderson

>> Yeah.

Julia Chen

>> With agents and any other new tech.

Gemma Allen

>> And there's just a whole new vector of threat too, right? In terms of how we use technology in our personal lives, how that feeds into our work life. We're all guilty of maybe using ChatGPT to do our homework a little bit, and I certainly am.

Julia Chen

>> No.

Gemma Allen

>> What sorts of, I guess, scenarios are you both seeing from the kind of partners and customers that you work with, in terms of managing that risk, and also managing risk, but ensuring that things are happening at market pace, at that pace of competition, which surely is faster, I think than it's ever been.

Julia Chen

>> Yes.

Valerie Henderson

>> Yeah. I think people by nature overestimate what will happen in the short term and underestimate the long term. One thing that I think is really interesting is we have a dedicated practice that's focused on Anthropic. They are an excellent AWS partner and I think the Bedrock story is really special. And for us, we are still finding the education and the enablement piece within these organizations is so important. Because for someone to use it responsibly, they need to know what that looks like. There is always the trailblazers, but there is a middle 60 within these organizations that need help to be activated. And I think people, humans in the loop ,need to be taught, this is what good looks like. And I think that people have underestimated how important that is, and you do have to take a step back to take two steps forward right now. You do.

Gemma Allen

>> Julia, you're working across so many developments all the time, right? AWS is accelerating at the pace of sound it feels like. And I know no one should have a favorite child. No mom should have a favorite child, but of all of the developments that we're seeing and hearing today, what really excites you? Like you and your team, where do you see some immediate opportunity that maybe didn't exist even six months to 12 months ago?

Julia Chen

>> So I think, oh, it's hard to have a favorite child. Okay. But just from my personal experience, I will say Quick is amazing. So my team and I use Quick daily. Quick is almost like a portal to all of the different agentic capabilities behind the scenes. But if you listen to Swami's keynote today, he really broke it down, I thought very clearly, which is to say, in the past the thing that has slowed progress has been siloed data, siloed processes, siloed people. And what Quick is amazing at is it connects it all and it lets you talk to it in natural language and it can pull all of the answers across. And we've really seen the power of that. So if we've seen it, like we're excited for our customers to see it, I know our partners use it. So for me, that's actually the most exciting one.

Gemma Allen

>> So ladies, what's ahead? I mean, it's June 2026, this world is moving and changing fast, things are shifting, expectations are shifting. One year from now, what are the big goals you hope you'll ?

Valerie Henderson

>> Oh. For me, I always think about how do we 10X the value to our customers? And I think that we're always iterating on that. The ethos of our company is, "Only the paranoid survive." And so we're always thinking about-

Gemma Allen

>> Love that....

Valerie Henderson

>> "Okay, we exist to serve customers, what are they going to need?" And just making sure that we're working to see around corners. I think it would be silly of me to say what it's going to look like in a year, but I think if we're focused on customers and outcomes, we're going to be able to continue growing and working with AWS along the way to do so.

Gemma Allen

>> And for you, Julia, as you look across your broad partner network, what are the big bets for, I guess, at least the end of this year, through to 2027?

Julia Chen

>> I mean, I have a big bet right now going on agentic managed services. So I really do believe that more and more as this gets complex and a little risky sometimes, I do think that customers will call on our partners more and more to help them see around the corners and to help them manage and to help be another pair of eyes on how all this transformation's going. I think the transformation is going to be enormous and incredible and unique to each company, but I do think they will want another pair of eyes and hands to help them through it, because it is complicated, right?

Valerie Henderson

>> Yeah.

Julia Chen

>> And companies like Caylent, they see many, many different customers and so they have that pattern recognition and the data points to be able to walk many customers through this journey.

Valerie Henderson

>> Yeah. I want people to see how amazing AI is. I think sometimes people can see how underbelly and the scary and focus on that. So much opportunity and the creativity it unlocks. I really am excited about the future.

Gemma Allen

>> Well, I love that. And I have to say, Val, you have given me my maybe phrase of the week. The ethos, "Only the paranoid survive.".

Julia Chen

>> Yeah. Love that.

Valerie Henderson

>> That is not me, by the way. That's an Intel old, but we do-

Gemma Allen

>> But it's fantastic.

Valerie Henderson

>> By the way, we have bracelets that-

Julia Chen

>> Wow....

Valerie Henderson

>> say OTPS, "Only the paranoid..." Everybody gets one when you join.

Gemma Allen

>> I absolutely love that.

Julia Chen

>> That's amazing.

Valerie Henderson

>> Yeah.

Gemma Allen

>> Well, Julia, Val, thank you so much for joining us in theCUBE.

Valerie Henderson

>> Thank you for having us.

Julia Chen

>> Awesome. Thank you for having us.

Gemma Allen

>> I'm Gemma Allen, coming to you with theCUBE coverage here on the ground at the Javits Center in New York. It's AWS Summit 2026, bringing you all of the live action. That's a wrap on today. Thank you so much for joining us. Stay tuned. Check out thecube.net for all of our life coverage from today's summit.