AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog

Our partners have shared that in today’s environment engaging new customers or early cloud adopters is complex. The new Customer Engagement Incentive supports partners to engage companies in the early stages of AWS Cloud adoption and accelerate their growth on AWS. The incentive is designed to lower the cost of sale, increase profitability, and grow customer adoption of AWS services by recognizing partner efforts when engaging with new customers.

At AWS, we’re at the forefront of an exciting transformation to drive our partners to new heights of productivity and profitability. Whether you want to reach new customers, sell alongside AWS sellers, or accelerate sales through AWS Marketplace, this transformation expands your opportunities every stage of your journey. In this post, we share key enhancements we’re making over the next six months to deepen your expertise and broaden the value across your business models.

The 2023 AWS Partner Awards honor partners who have demonstrated outstanding results and innovation with the use of AWS products and solutions. AWS Partners can self-nominate themselves to be considered across a select number of AWS Partner Award categories. Award submissions will be reviewed by a third-party and selected with special emphasis placed on customer success use cases presented in the nomination form. All nominations must be submitted by 11:59 PM PDT on August 17, 2023.

This post describes how Tech Mahindra transitioned a segment of telecom customers in the EMEA region from a legacy monolithic application, BMC Remedy on-premises, to a self-managed microservices application, BMC Helix IT Service Management, utilizing Kubernetes operations with end-to-end data protection on AWS. Tech Mahindra is an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner with the Migration Consulting Competency that specializes in digital transformation, consulting, and re-engineering solutions.

The AWS Shared Responsibility Model requires security architects to take proactive measures to detect and prevent zero-day risks and other malware at the perimeter of their network. Learn about the potential risks associated with cloud applications that handle file uploads and transfers, and explore best practices to help mitigate. This post provides guidance on modern threat prevention technologies such as OPSWAT MetaDefender that help augment and automate cybersecurity defense.

Explore the multi-year initiative that culminated in the 2022 migration and upgrade of Liberty Mutual’s primary claims processing platform which was implemented on Guidewire’s claims management system. Guidewire Software is an AWS Partner that delivers the software that property/casualty insurers need to adapt and succeed in a time of rapid industry change. While collaborating with AWS, Liberty Mutual was able to engineer a highly scalable, performant, and stable claims platform.

Many organizations have standardized or plan to standardize their unified data security governance on AWS Lake Formation. Some of these organizations are also leveraging Databricks and would like to create and manage data access policies for Databricks using AWS Lake Formation as well. Learn how Privacera’s integrated solution extends AWS Lake Formation source support to Databricks and provides data access policy authorship and maintenance from one safe and convenient location.

Many organizations are adopting data lakes to handle large volumes of data, and flexible pipelines to fit the needs of consuming services and teams (machine learning, business intelligence, and analytics). In this post, we’ll explore the modern data lake and how Fivetran can help accelerate time-to-value with Amazon S3 and Apache Iceberg. Fivetran offers pre-built connectors for 300+ data sources and employs ETL to land data in the warehouse or data lake.

Protecting AWS account root users with multi-factor authentication (MFA) is a crucial security control, and now you can use CyberArk’s Privileged Access Manager (PAM) to securely manage the AWS account root and authenticate its use with MFA. We’ll review the current MFA features for AWS account root user, provide a step-by-step walkthrough of how to install and configure CyberArk PAM to manage root accounts with MFA, and show how to sign into the AWS root account with CyberArk PAM.

Monitoring and managing cloud-based resources is crucial for maintaining performance, troubleshooting issues, and ensuring the health of your infrastructure. Learn about the integration of Amazon CloudWatch with VMware Cloud on AWS with a focus on monitoring the workload of virtual machines. We’ll elaborate on the benefits of integrating CloudWatch with other AWS services as well as third-party services like ServiceNow ITSM tool and IBM Netcool.

Generative AI and large language models (LLMs) such as AI21 Labs’ Jurassic models are reshaping how we engage with information. This post walks through using the Jurassic-2 (J2) large language model and how to consume the model via an AWS Lambda API endpoint. We’ll also discuss how to make calls to the J2 model via the publicly available Jurassic-2 Python SDK. AI21 Labs is an AWS Partner and leader in generative AI and LLMs, revolutionizing the way people read and write.

As the world grows, concerns over pollution and climate change are forcing businesses to redesign how they produce and use energy. A notable approach for achieving this objective is through informing end users of their power usage patterns. Learn how IBM’s anomaly detection solution for energy and utilities helps companies increase energy efficiency leveraging a personalized AI paradigm and to calculate ESG metrics related to energy consumption.

Sapphire Systems is an AWS Partner and leading digital operating transformation provider that has made great strides in the expansion of its software and service offerings, and has collaborated with leading players such as AWS and SAP. Learn how Sapphire started an ambitious program to migrate to AWS and exit its two physical data centers in the UK. The migration, which had a large SAP Business One component, leveraged the AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) framework and investments.