AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog

We are excited to introduce the Partner Initiative Funding (PIF) template in the AWS Partner Funding Portal (APFP), enabling AWS Partners to easily self-access their agreement and any initiative funds without relying on their AWS partner manager. The template unifies and standardizes the different funding experiences into one template, and provides funding transparency throughout the funding cycle. This improves the overall funding process time for partners by having a configurable workflow.

We are excited to highlight 178 AWS Partners that received new or renewed designations in August for our global AWS Service Delivery, AWS Competency, AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP), 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.

Channel Partners are increasingly transacting through AWS Marketplace to deliver greater value to their customers, with benefits like simplified procurement and consolidated billing. As a result, preferred Channel Partners are experiencing benefits like accelerated deal closure, expanded reach, and optimized costs. Learn how AWS is investing in an enhanced AWS Marketplace experience, and how Channel Partners can build on AWS to expand their customer reach and accelerate sales.

Version 1 is a leading AWS Partner across the UK and Ireland and specializes in the migration, optimization, and running of complex enterprise workloads on AWS. An AWS Premier Tier Services Partner, Version 1 has collaborated with AWS for more than 10 years and was one of the first AWS consulting partners in Europe. Learn about Version 1’s rich history of delivering successful AWS technology solutions to organizations around the globe and why the firm was named 2022 AWS Migration Partner of the Year – EMEA.

Thanks to new AWS generative AI innovations and Amazon’s long-standing history of artificial intelligence innovation, we have seen how trusted AWS Partners have identified AWS as a premier choice in generative AI. We’ve also seen how pleased partners are with the many ways these innovations will support customers. Hear success stories from IBM Consulting, Caylent, Cohere, Wipro, Deloitte, Automation Anywhere, Capgemini, and TensorIoT.

To fully engage with customers and produce meaningful experiences, creating a 360-degree view of them is essential. The information needed to build this view requires internal and external sources of data. Learn about the concept of data clean rooms and how AWS Clean Rooms helps customers and their partners more easily and securely collaborate and analyze their collective datasets—without sharing or copying one another’s underlying data.

AWS Graviton processors are designed to deliver the best price performance for your cloud workloads running in Amazon EC2 and the most cost-effective and performant choice for graph database workloads running Neo4j. Tests have shown that deploying Neo4j with AWS Graviton-based instances results in cost savings of up to 15% as well as a boost for write performance of up to 146% over equivalent Intel-based instances.

In this blog post, we will explore three distinct SaaS Anywhere patterns that we’ve identified. We will delve into the essential business drivers and associated considerations for each pattern and examine the challenges one should keep in mind when handling and overseeing a solution using the SaaS Anywhere deployment model.

Telecom operators are increasingly migrating to AWS and cost savings is one of the primary drivers. Learn how DigitalRoute’s benchmarks show that by migrating to AWS and taking advantage of services like AWS Fargate and AWS Graviton, telecom operators can retain their on-premises performance while seeing cost reductions when deploying the Usage Engine Private Edition on AWS. DigitalRoute is collaborating with AWS to enable telecom and communication service providers.

Uncover architectural best practices related to the recommendations in the AWS Well-Architected SaaS Lens framework for providing a frictionless tenant onboarding experience for a SaaS solution. The technology, tools, and realities of your SaaS environment will influence the specifics of your onboarding experience. With an efficient, automated onboarding mechanism, your solution will be able to provide a robust, repeatable onboarding flow that will benefit both customers (tenants) and your SaaS business.

Manufacturing customers face the challenge of deriving insights from their shopfloor to enhance business decisions and production processes. Learn how Syntax’s Synsights platform powered by AWS enables integration of IoT data with manufacturing execution systems and enterprise resource planning systems like SAP. Syntax Synsights offers a pre-built solution that can be tailored to specific customer requirements, thus saving time, effort, and money while boosting ROI.

Many organizations have stitched together a set of siloed functional and technical supply chain systems to solve their business problems, but some lack traceability and transparency across the end-to-end value chain. Learn how Accenture’s SynOps for Supply Chain on AWS addresses these challenges by offering a fully integrated solution which brings traceability and transparency to the decision-making process.

Kyndryl Application Management for SAP on AWS is a managed service designed to harness the full power of SAP and enhance agility and efficiency with cloud-enabled workloads on AWS. Learn about the solution’s support models, how to build resilient architectures, and tools and automation that can help you eliminate skills gaps, simplify SAP operations for applications running on AWS, and increase visibility with a managed service portal that shows SAP applications and the AWS infrastructure from a single pane of glass.

Data protection needs are one of the top priorities when architecting disaster recovery solutions on AWS. Cloud-first strategies are the new normal now, and these decisions are driven by data classification tiers and RTO/RPO requirements outlined by business and technical stakeholders. Explore the business and technology benefits of adopting a joint disaster recovery solution like the integrated ATADATA and AWS Application Migration Service solution offered by AWS and Deloitte.