Category: AWS Partner Network

To grow with AWS, partners can pursue Competency designations which validate an organization’s expertise through rigorous assessment by AWS experts. By meeting requirements around projects, certifications, and capabilities, partners can demonstrate their proficiency and earn an AWS specialization badge in specific industries, use cases, or workloads. Attaining an AWS Competency distinguishes partners, but the preparation process also transforms practices.

Complying with FedRAMP poses challenges for DevOps teams, including slower deployment speeds, process overhead, and complex AWS GovCloud requirements. To optimize velocity while maintaining compliance, organizations can shift security controls left, automate workflows, and architect secure in-boundary pipelines. With the proper frameworks, teams can increase deployment frequency and reduce change failure rates in FedRAMP environments.

Crayon’s customizable landing zone accelerator automates setup of a secure, scalable AWS environment aligned to best practices. It establishes foundational accounts, applies baseline security controls, and integrates AWS services across the organization to drive cloud adoption for companies migrating to AWS while also improving governance for existing customers. Crayon guides customers through the landing zone build and subsequent workload migration, providing automation kits to speed deployments.

Private equity firms are addressing climate change through environmental, social, and governance (ESG) policies, but data gaps hinder progress. Obtaining consistent emissions data across portfolios is difficult. Gardenia Technologies’ carbon accounting solution on AWS helps private equity groups capture, analyze, and report ESG data at scale. The tool connects to data sources, standardizes outputs, and surfaces insights through interactive dashboards to track progress and guide strategies.

Avahi Technologies and AWS teamed with biotech startup WittGen to develop a scalable cloud-based AI platform that profiles cancer tumors. This helps researchers analyze heterogeneity to improve treatment outcomes. Avahi provided expertise to architect the secure AWS environment and machine learning backend needed to quickly launch WittGen’s SaaS service. The solution enhances performance and compliance for the platform that parses patient genomic data to empower clinicians fighting cancer.

As we continue to transform the AWS Partner experience, we’re excited to share updates to the Validation Checklists (VCL) for AWS Specialization Programs (AWS Competency, Managed Service Provider, Service Delivery, and Service Ready). Effective January 1, 2024, the updates drive efficiencies during onboarding, allowing partners to achieve an AWS Specialization faster and making it easier to utilize benefits.

Wipro’s next-generation dealer and distributor management system (DMS) provides an omnichannel, microservices-based solution enabling complete visibility and integrated management of all dealer operations. By leveraging AWS’s scalable, reliable, and secure cloud infrastructure, the solution offers benefits like improved analytics, reduced costs, high availability, and faster time-to-market. Wipro provides dealers a modern DMS that addresses advanced requirements around mobile access, IoT, and AI.

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.