Category: AWS Partner Network

As energy and utility companies transition to renewable energy, they face challenges with controlling costs and centralized IT that’s unable to scale. Sense Reply implements an IoT platform accelerator suite on AWS which enables faster time-to-market, microservice deployment, standardized IaC, and lifecycle management across environments and accounts. This allows companies to focus on business logic while leveraging a modular, scalable platform for diverse energy sector use cases.

Crayon developed an intelligent decision support system for Savills Vietnam using AWS which ingests daily news in Vietnamese, translates to English with Amazon Translate, and categorizes articles using Amazon Comprehend. An intelligent search engine built on Amazon Kendra allows users to search in natural language and receive relevant excerpts or answers. With this tool, Savills can stay current on real estate news and trends to identify new opportunities. Optional dashboards provide analytics.

As cyber threats grow more sophisticated, real-time threat detection is critical for robust cloud security. AWS Partner Cloudanix leverages cloud infrastructure logs and machine learning to provide holistic, agentless monitoring across AWS environments. By analyzing activities and APIs in real-time, Cloudanix identifies threats and anomalies, alerts security teams, and recommends remediation steps. This enables rapid incident response, proactive security measures, and comprehensive visibility.

Retailers are adopting new technologies like Amazon’s Just Walk Out to provide a frictionless shopping experience. Cognizant’s Customer Concierge Solution integrates Just Walk Out with existing POS systems, allowing grab-and-go shopping. This packaged, API-based solution on AWS enables quick rollout, cost optimization, scalability, and security. It gives retailers the flexibility to repurpose labor while lowering costs and time to deploy advanced shopping technology.

AWS PrivateLink allows customers to securely connect cloud and on-premises data sources to Alation’s data catalog without exposing traffic to the public internet. This integration provides private connectivity between the customer’s VPC and Alation Cloud Service and simplifies network architecture. Using PrivateLink with Alation enables organizations to build a catalog of metadata from selected data assets while maintaining compliance with security and regulatory requirements.

The AWS SaaS Factory team delves into ITV’s innovative strides in the media and entertainment industry—particularly its creation of Planet V, an autonomous platform facilitating the reservation of TV ad campaigns on ITVX, a network of streaming channels. After two years of production, Planet V underwent a rearchitecting process aimed at enhancing customer experience and ensuring a future-proof solution. ITV enlisted AWS Partner The Scale Factory to collaboratively design, build, and fortify the platform’s infrastructure.

AWS provides discounted pricing through Reserved Instances and Savings Plans in return for usage commitments. Apptio Cloudability helps organizations maximize these commitments by analyzing AWS cost data to identify savings opportunities. Cloudability also offers automation to optimize commitments continuously, achieving higher savings than manual management allows. This frees up financial operations resources to focus on other cloud cost optimization initiatives.

From a wide range of AWS Partner success stories to new partner programs launched at AWS re:Invent, here’s a look at the most popular APN blog posts and case studies we shared in 2023. The AWS Partner Network (APN) is a global community that leverages AWS technologies, programs, expertise, and tools to build solutions and provide services for customers. Together, partners and AWS provide innovative solutions, solve technical challenges, win deals, and deliver greater customer value.

Belden Inc. collaborated with AWS and Matterport to create a digital twin at its Richmond manufacturing facility. By capturing the plant environment with Matterport’s 3D camera and integrating sensor data through AWS IoT Core, they built a virtual representation of the assembly line. The digital twin enables Belden to gain insights, optimize operations, and improve asset performance in areas like employee training and preventative maintenance.

SAP customers are integrating non-SAP applications and machine learning models to improve business strategies. Solutions like Syntax CxLink and Amazon Forecast can connect SAP systems to AWS services to provide insights for supply-demand planning, sales, and automation requirements. This post shows how Syntax CxLink transfers SAP data like sales orders and inventory transactions to Amazon Forecast, which uses algorithms to create highly accurate demand forecasts.