 Live from Washington D.C., it's theCUBE, covering AWS Public Sector Summit 2018, brought to you by Amazon Web Services and its ecosystem partners. Hey, welcome back everyone. It's theCUBE's exclusive coverage here, day two of the Amazon Web Services Public Sector Summit. This is the public sector across the globe. This is their reinvent. This is their big event. I'm John Furrier, Stu Miniman, and also Dave Vellante has been here doing interviews. Our next guest is, we've got Doug Van Dyke. He's the director of U.S. Federal, civilian and nonprofit sectors of the group. Welcome to theCUBE, good to see you. John, thank you for having me. So you've been in the federal kind of game and public sector for a while. You've known, worked with Teresa at Microsoft before she came to reinvent. 15 years now. How's she doing? Oh, she's doing great. You saw her on main stage yesterday. Force of nature, love working with her, love working for her. This is like you were saying, this is our reinvent. We're here in DC and 14,000 plus, 15,000 registrations, just, she's on the top of her game. What I'm really impressed with her and your team as well is the focus on growth, but innovation, right? It's not just about, you know, knock down the numbers and compete. Certainly you're competing against people who are playing all kinds of tricks. You know, you've got Oracle out there. You've got IBM, you've beaten the CIA. You've got, you've got Street Battle, K out there and this there in DC. You guys are innovating there. You're doing stuff with nonprofits. You've got mission-driven. You're doing the educate stuff. So it's not just a one-trick pony here. Take us through some of where you guys' heads are at now because you're successful. Everyone's watching you. You're not small anymore. What's the story? So I think that the differentiator for us is our focus on the customers. You know, we've got a great innovation story at the Department of Veterans Affairs with vets.gov. So five years ago, if a veteran went out to get the services that the government was going to provide them, they had to pick from 200 websites and it just wasn't easy to navigate through 200 websites. So the innovation group at Veterans Affairs, the digital services team figured out, you know, let's pull this all together under a single portal with vets.gov. It's running on AWS and now veterans have a single interface into all the services that they want. Yeah, Doug, one of the things I've been impressed my first year coming to this, I've been to many other AWS shows, but you've got all these kind of overlapping communities. Of course, the federal governments, but state and local education, you've got this a civilian agency. So give us a little bit of flavor about that experience here at the show, what trends you're hearing from those customers. Yeah, so what's great for me is I've been here almost six and a half years and I've seen the evolution and there were the early customers who were just the pioneers like Tom Soderstrom from JPL who was on main stage. And then we saw the next wave where there were programs that needed a course correction like at Center for Medicare Medicaid with healthcare.gov where Amazon Web Services came in, took over that, you know, helped them with the marketplace, you know, get that going. And now we're doing some great innovative things at CMS aggregating data from all 50 states about 75 terabytes so they can do research on fraud, waste and abuse that they couldn't do before. So we're helping our customers innovate on the cloud and in the cloud and it's been a great opportunity. Oh my God. I had the pleasure of interviewing Tom Soderstrom two years ago. Everybody gets real excited when you talk about space and it's easy to talk about innovation there, but you know, talks about innovation throughout the customers because some people will look at and they'll be like, oh, come on, government and their bureaucracy and they're behind, but you know, what kind of innovation are you hearing from your customers? So there's an exciting one with Department of Energy. They, you know, there's a limited amount of resources that you have on premise. Well, they're doing research on the Large Hadron Collider in certain Switzerland and they needed to double the amount of capacity that they had on premise. So went to the AWS cloud, fired up 50,000 cores, brought the data down and they could do research on it. So we're making things possible that couldn't be done previously. What are some of the examples that government entities and organizations are doing to create innovation in the private sector? Because the private sector has been the leader to the public sector and now you're seeing people starting to integrate it. I mean, half the people behind us that are exhibiting here are from the commercial side doing business in public sector and public sectors doing enabling action in the private sector. Talk about that dynamic because it's not just public sector. Right. Can you just share? Public, private. So great example with NOAA, the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. They have a new program called Next Rad. It's the next generation of Doppler radar. They have 160 stations across the world collecting moisture, air pressure, all of the indicators that help predict weather. They partner with us at AWS to put this data out and through our open data program and then organizations like the Weatherbug can grab that information, government information and use it to build the application that you have on your iPhone that predicts the weather so you know whether to bring an umbrella to work tomorrow. So you guys are enabling the data from, or stuff from the public for private entrepreneurial activity? Absolutely. All right, talk about the nonprofits. What's going on there? Obviously, we saw some stuff on stage with Theresa, the work she's showcasing a lot of the nonprofit. A lot of mission-driven entrepreneurship's happening. Here in DC, it's almost a Silicon Valley-like dynamic where stuff that was never funded before is getting funded because they can do cloud, they can stand it up pretty quickly and get it going. So you're seeing kind of a resurgence of mission-driven entrepreneurship. What is the nonprofit piece of it look like now for AWS? How do you talk about that? Sure, well again, one of the areas that I'm really passionate about being here and being one of the people who helped start our nonprofit vertical inside of AWS, we now have over 12, or I'm sorry, 22,000 nonprofits using AWS to keep going. And the mission of our nonprofit vertical is just to make sure that no nonprofit would ever fail for lack of infrastructure. So we partnered with TechSoup, which is an organization that helps vet and coordinate our cloud credits. So small nonprofit organizations can go out through TechSoup, get access to credits, so they don't have to worry about their infrastructure. Free credits? Those credits, with the TechSoup membership, they get those, and using the word credit, it's more like a grant of AWS cloud. You guys are enabling almost grants. Yes, cloud grants, not cash grants, but cloud grants. Yeah, yeah, yeah, great. So how is that converting for you in your mind? Can you share some examples of some nonprofits that are successful? Sure, we had a great presentation and I think it was your last interview, Game Changer, where these smaller nonprofits can have a really large impact. But then we're also working with some of the larger nonprofits too, the American Heart Association, that built their Precision Medicine Platform to match genotype, phenotype information so we can further cardiovascular research. They have this great mission statement. They want to reduce cardiovascular disease by 20% by 2020, and we're going to help them do that. You guys are doing a great job, I've got to say, it's been fun to watch, and now we've been covering you guys for the past two years now, here at the event, a lot more coming on in DC. The CIA went a few years ago, certainly the shot heard around the cloud. That's been well documented, the Department of Defense looking good off the certain indicators. But what's going on in the trends in the civilian agencies? Can you take a minute to give an update on that? Yeah, so I started earlier saying I've seen the full spectrum. I saw the very beginning, and then I've seen all the way to the end where I think it was three years ago at this event, I talked to Joe Paiva, who was the former CIO for Department of Commerce, ITA, the International Trade Association. He had data center contracts coming up for renewal, and he made a really brave decision to cancel those contracts. And so he had 18 months to migrate the entire infrastructure for ITA over onto AWS. And there's nothing like an impending date to move. So, we've got agencies that are going all in on AWS, and I think that's just a sign of the times. Data centers, I mean, anyone with the worst startup nine years into it, we've never had a data center. I think most startups don't. Born in the cloud. Born in the cloud, that's that. Thanks so much for coming on, appreciate the time. Congratulations on your success, AWS, public sector doing great, global public sector. You guys are doing great. Building nations as well, we had Baja Rain on as well. Good luck, and the ecosystems looks good. You guys did a good job, so congratulations. John Stu, thank you very much for having me here today. All right, live coverage here. We are in Washington, D.C. for CUBE coverage of AWS Public Sector Summit. We'll be back with more. Stay with us. We've got some more interviews after this short break.