AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog

AWS offers programs and benefits that help partners of all sizes transform and improve their customer experience. Learn more about the tools, mechanisms, resources, and technical paths available to AWS Partners that can help them dive deeper into their AWS relationship, identify superpowers, and make the most of the AWS resources and programs available to support continued growth and success. Take advantage of APN programs to help you grow your business and reach your target customers.

AWS Partners are uniquely positioned to help customers take full advantage of all that AWS has to offer and accelerate their journey to the cloud. We’re excited to share a few stories to help you learn how customers around the world have accelerated their cloud adoption and fueled innovation by working with AWS Partners. Learn how Metal Toad keeps a top comic site safe for San-Diego Comic-Con, how Vodafone works with Esri to build a UK-wide digital twin on AWS, and more.

We are excited to highlight 143 AWS Partners that received new or renewed designations in March for our global AWS Competency, AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP), AWS Service Delivery, and AWS Service Ready programs. These designations span workload, solution, and industry, and help AWS customers identify top AWS Partners that can deliver on core business objectives. AWS Partners are focused on your success, helping customers take full advantage of the business benefits AWS has to offer.

A recent Accenture study suggests that only 32% of businesses are able to realize the value of their business data. Working together with thousands of partners worldwide, AWS is able to help customers solve complex problems with modern cloud data strategies. Learn how consulting services and cloud software from AWS Partners enable customers to tap into the power of data to support decision making, visibility, application innovation, supply chain transformation, and risk mitigation.

We’re excited to share a preview of the enhancements we’re making to partner programs and tools to deliver greater customer value and partner profitability—including making it easier to leverage programs by aligning them to your business models and scaling AWS Marketplace to expand your customer reach and accelerate sales. The AWS Partner experience transformation is aimed towards helping you deliver different levels and types of value to customers—to win more, win bigger, and win faster.

Infor OS is the foundational enterprise application platform which connects Infor’s various software products and third-party solutions into a complete digital business platform. It enables ongoing innovation with support for AI/ML, integration, hyperautomation, application development, data management, and analytics. The platform delivers everything you need to tackle innovation use cases—from integration to automation and extensibility to data and insights.

Decentralized clinical trials (DCTs) put the patient at the center of the trial experience and incorporate digital technologies like AI/ML to address the challenges associated with traditional clinical trials. DCTs can reshape workflows across the clinical lifecycle—from trial design and patient recruitment to evidence generation. Explore key challenges addressed by DCTs and how SourceFuse is leveraging AWS to build the right solutions for its clients to transform clinical research.

Energy and asset monitoring is becoming an essential part of business. Organizational strategies include environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria in its framework to decrease energy consumption and, at the same time, boost efficiency. Learn how Bosch is solving this problem with the help of edge analytics, machine learning, and core Internet of Things (IoT) components provided by AWS, and how Bosch Phantom helps to extract information using a non-intrusive approach.

The platform engineering function also helps improve the developer experience by providing the right set of tools, technologies, and templates in a self-service portal. Redapt helps customers create their internal development platforms, which empower application developers while providing well-defined, consistent, and secure environments that are cost effective, shared, and monitored. Learn how Redapt works on IDPs using AWS Proton, an AWS managed service that helps implement IDP features for ongoing Day 2 operations.

The AWS Ambassador Program is a vibrant worldwide community of technical experts, known as AWS Ambassadors, who are prominent leaders and passionate about sharing their AWS technical expertise. They author blogs and whitepapers, create and deliver public presentations, and contribute to open source projects. Our Ambassadors evangelize AWS via social media and facilitate peer-to-peer learning by presenting at conferences, leading workshops, and hosting user group events.

AWS provides a rich set of tools and capabilities for managing access to cloud architectures including AWS IAM Identity Center, which makes it easy to manage access across your entire organization. Learn how AWS customers can leverage Okta Access Requests and AWS IAM Identity Center to provide just-in-time access to cloud resources. Granting just-in-time access to developers for a limited time based on approval is an effective way to limit the active time frame for assignments to your AWS resources.

Whether you’re taking the first steps toward planning your software-as-a-service (SaaS) journey, or about to launch your first product, the new Journey to SaaS guide is designed to help drive your efforts to build, migrate, secure, and optimize SaaS solutions on AWS. Use this roadmap to identify which stage you’re in and review the corresponding actions, motivations, questions, pain points, and AWS SaaS Factory resources.

Learn how to build scalable, cost-effective, and serverless microservices using TiDB Cloud and AWS Lambda. TiDB Cloud is based on TiDB which is cloud-native, open-source distributed SQL database with built-in hybrid transactional and analytical processing (HTAP) that can handle multiple workloads seamlessly and effectively. Explore how pairing TiDB Cloud with AWS Lambda enables you to build serverless, event-driven microservices, further enhancing the scalability and cost-effectiveness of your architecture.

Virtual machines remain a crucial part of many IT environments due to the long-term and substantial investments made by companies. Experts from IBM Consulting and AWS share how running VMs on top of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on AWS offers several benefits, including integrated management, migration and modernization, and improving developer productivity. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization is an enterprise-grade feature that makes it easy to deploy and manage VMs on OpenShift.