In a deal that will surprise no one, Kyndryl today penned a strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS), rounding out the managed service provider’s cloud portfolio.

Since breaking away from IBM late last year, Kyndryl has teamed up with all of the major cloud providers including Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and now AWS.

“Our ability to freely explore and unleash the combined benefits of AWS cloud services with Kyndryl’s deep industry-specific managed services and expertise will provide an unprecedented level of knowledge and innovation,” Kyndryl CEO Martin Schroeter waxed in a statement.

Today’s announcement follows a similar mold set by the service provider’s previous partnerships.

Kyndryl will establish a “center of excellence” to provide customers with AWS services specifically tailored to their cloud migrations. It will also provide training to more than 10,000 employees to bring them up to speed on AWS’ features and capabilities.

“Together we’re committed to educating, empowering, and enabling thousands of AWS-certified practitioners and developing joint solutions that will accelerate customers’ journeys,” AWS CEO Adam Selipsky said in a statement.

The partnership will also see Kyndryl expand its relationship with VMware to ease the migration for customers deeply entrenched in the software vendor’s virtualization ecosystem.

Together the cloud provider and Kyndryl are developing an accelerator for VMware Cloud on AWS that will see experts from all three companies coordinate to help large enterprises migrate their existing VMware deployments to AWS.

AWS is the latest in a string of strategic partnerships announced in the wake of IBM Global Technology Services’ (GTS) spinoff under the Kyndryl moniker.

Last week, Nokia penned an agreement with the MSP aimed at providing specialized 4G LTE and 5G private wireless networking for industrial enterprises.

The MSP has moved rapidly to differentiate and distance itself from its former parent, including forming partnerships that would have been unthinkable prior to its independence.

“IBM’s strategy for GTS for a number of years was that GTS would lead with and only lead with and only deliver on IBM cloud,” Stephen Leonard, global alliances and partnerships lead at Kyndryl, told SDxCentral in an earlier interview.

Today’s AWS partnership is Kyndryl’s latest effort to put those days behind it.