As cloud solutions companies expand into becoming big industry players, the importance of building out a partner ecosystem becomes even more important.Amazon Web Services Inc. was one of the first companies to champion this strategy, building out a partner roster that includes the likes of CrowdStrike Holdings Inc.“We’ve actually been working closely with the Amazon team for more than five years at this point,” said Todd Crosley (pictured, left), senior director of cloud partnerships at CrowdStrike. “And it’s really evolved into a strategic collaboration … from an executive standpoint down into field alignment, channel alignment, and the marketing and build team