AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog

We are looking forward to bringing you AWS re:Invent 2023 both in-person and virtually. The conference is November 27 – December 1 in Las Vegas, with virtual opportunities to watch keynotes and Innovation Talks live. All of us at AWS are excited to connect with AWS Partners and AWS Marketplace Sellers from around the globe. To help you prepare, we’ve compiled a list of key re:Invent information for our AWS Partner and AWS Marketplace communities.

At AWS, we believe our partners are well-positioned to support specialized customer needs, either through providing consultative support or specialty business applications with integrated generative AI capabilities. This is why we are introducing the Generative AI Center of Excellence (CoE) for AWS Partners. It’s a digital experience open to all partners within the AWS Partner Network (APN). Learn how the CoE delivers optimized learning paths to implement generative AI solutions for customers.

Through the newly-introduced Generative AI Center of Excellence for AWS Partners, we are excited to share perspective on many of these questions. AWS recently sat down for a Q&A session with McKinsey & Company Senior Partner Naveen Sastry to talk about generative AI opportunities and best practices in implementation. Noted in these whitepapers is the $4 trillion of economic value that could be enabled by generative AI, and the Q&A below delves into the direct implications and how companies can capture value.

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.

Many enterprises have significant portions of their workloads running either as batch or online but still operating on mainframe technologies. Delve into the complex landscape of modernizing mainframe applications and migrating them to AWS, exploring the significant challenges that organizations face and how HCLTech’s Advantage Modernize Framework overcomes these challenges and paves the way for a successful and efficient transition to AWS.

Delve into Liveline Technologies and its provision of factory-scale automation for manufacturers. Liveline Technologies swiftly generate AI-based controllers, adjusting equipment parameters in real-time across entire production lines. Learn how it leveraged support from the AWS SaaS Factory team to develop solutions that yield tangible benefits for customers, reducing scrap, waste, and energy usage while enhancing product quality, minimizing unplanned downtime, and boosting productivity.

AWS Health Events are notifications published to the AWS Health Dashboard and sent via email to account contacts, and they are crucial when managing AWS environments. Learn how Ensono’s AWS Health Event Centralization Platform captures, filters, prioritizes, notifies, and tracks the remediation of AWS Health notifications across its customer base, ensuring critical managed infrastructure and applications remain secure and available.

Virtusa helps numerous clients migrate their Pega applications from on-premises to Pega Cloud running on AWS. Virtusa identifies opportunities using its proven Triple-R methodology (Recon, Refactor, Re-platform) to reduce the accumulated technical debt while seamlessly migrating to Pega Cloud. This migration is generally part of the first phase of a client’s modernization journey that continues with a phase-wise approach to remove technical debt and iteratively modernize the application.

Multi-account strategy is an architectural pattern in which your workloads and services are distributed across multiple accounts. Using a multi-account strategy enables a well-architected platform that’s scalable and secure. Learn about the thought process and frameworks DXC Technology adopts in building a secure, resilient, and scalable enterprise landing zone to support your multi-account strategy and business journey on AWS.

Neo4j is a graph data platform that, together with Amazon Bedrock, offers a compelling value add to any enterprise. Learn about the knowledge retrieval and extraction processes and review a couple of retrieval augmented generation (RAG) application architectures. Using Amazon Bedrock and Neo4j, you can simplify the knowledge extraction process which can be more complex and manual using traditional NLP libraries.

AWS and the AWS Partner Network (APN) have made strategic investments to empower software providers to create distinctive SaaS solutions. Explore how they cultivate a potent growth strategy through tailored GTM initiatives and facilitate the transition of on-premises customers to modern SaaS offerings. Migrations can be daunting, so we’ll examine success stories of other companies and strategies they’ve employed to face these challenges and thrive in the SaaS landscape.