AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog

In September 2023, AWS commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact (TEI) study to examine the potential business opportunity and return on investment (ROI) that Channel Partners can realize by building and scaling an AWS Marketplace practice. Learn about the study’s framework and key findings, including potential revenue opportunities, benefits, costs, and best practices associated with reselling third-party software, data, and offering professional services in AWS Marketplace.

The AWS Ambassador Program is a vibrant worldwide community of AWS experts from AWS Partner Network (APN) Services and Software Partners. They are prominent leaders who are passionate about sharing their AWS expertise, and we’re honored to recognize this year’s top AWS Ambassadors for their outstanding performance and exemplary business impact and thought leadership. We also recognize the AWS Ambassador Certification All-Stars who have shown technical depth by holding all active AWS Certifications.

In this post, we delve into the strategic investments made by AWS and the AWS Partner Network to empower software providers in their SaaS journey to create distinctive SaaS solutions. We’ll explore how they cultivate a potent growth strategy through tailored go-to-market initiatives and harness their resources to facilitate the transition of on-premises customers to more modern SaaS offerings. While migrations can be daunting, we’ll also examine the success stories of other companies and strategies they’ve employed to conquer these challenges and thrive in the SaaS landscape.

The ability to accurately share and analyze patient information between different healthcare providers and systems is critical to the transition to patient-centric care. Learn how AWS and Accenture collaborated to build a population-scale research cohort analytics solution called Accenture Health Analytics (AHA) which contains 54 million longitudinal patient records using a range of AWS services. It helps healthcare organizations improve patient outcomes and reduce delivery costs.

Managing an Apache Kafka deployment can be complex and resource intensive, often requiring additional support. Integrating Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) and CockroachDB in your Kafka deployment enables a plethora of use cases, including real-time analytics, event-driven microservices such as inventory management, and the ability to archive data for audit logging. This post offers a step-by-step guide to integrate Amazon MSK within the CockroachDB platform.

Security leaders face the dual challenge of cost reduction and resource optimization, while mitigating security threats throughout their organization. A SaaS Security Platform (SSP) allows you to centralize data across multiple applications to provide end-to-end visibility into your exposure. Learn how DoControl can help provide visibility, monitoring, and automated remediation to risks that can often be overlooked. DoControl enables customers to accelerate SaaS security risk controls with its SaaS Security Platform.

AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) can save time while developing infrastructure as code in your preferred language, such as JavaScript/TypeScript, or Python. This post provides reference framework for customers which can save time implementing GitLab Pipelines using AWS CDK for a secured and reliable deployment experience across their teams. Many organizations use GitLab as a CI/CD platform for their cloud infrastructure and application deployments on AWS.

Customers use AWS Service Catalog to create and manage a catalog of IT services and products approved for use on AWS. Learn how to use AWS Service Catalog Engine for Terraform Cloud to provision your products and benefit from a self-service provisioning model that removes the heavy lifting of managing Terraform infrastructure. End users with a pre-validated catalog of infrastructure and enforce governance through Terraform Cloud features such as team permissions, run tasks, and policy sets.

The installation of highly available, scalable, and reliable SAP systems is a crucial aspect to consider for customers embarking on their greenfield, brownfield, or bluefield SAP projects. AWS Launch Wizard for SAP offers a guided wizard-based experience that simplifies and accelerates the deployment of SAP systems based on HANA database. Deloitte is the key partner in testing beta features for AWS Launch Wizard for SAP and has done significant testing and provided feedback in enhancing the service features.

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) enhances security for web and mobile applications by requiring additional identification methods other than a password. Providing a frictionless user experience with MFA often requires a variety of authentication options that support a range of users and devices. Learn how 1Kosmos BlockID and Amazon Cognito can help to balance security with usability when building customer facing applications.

TCS Mobility Suite Smart Validation powered by AWS enables sustainable, end-to-end simulation-based validation for automated driving systems. IT allows for testing of autonomous vehicles in a low-cost, risk-free manner while helping improve the quality of the software as well as accelerating time to market. Smart Validation is able to remove billions of redundant test cases, reducing them to hundreds and saving computational resources and prioritizing the testing of edge cases.

The integration of geospatial data into the broader business intelligence and decision-making process is referred to as location intelligence. On AWS, you can use the Snowflake Data Cloud to integrate fragmented data, discover and securely share data, and execute diverse analytic workloads. This post shows how you can enrich your existing Snowflake data with location-based insights using Amazon Location Service for location intelligence workloads.