Category: AWS Big Data

The Center for Advanced Defense Studies (C4ADS) is a nonprofit organization based in Washington D.C. that provides data-driven analysis and evidence-based reporting on global conflict and transnational security issues. Because their analysts must comb through extensive records from different sources, it became increasingly difficult to make use of all the data. ClearScale, an AWS Premier Consulting Partner, implemented a large data lake on AWS to make the data more user-friendly for C4ADS analysts.

By Paul Sears. Paul is a Partner Solutions Architect (SA) at AWS.  Qubole opened up the hood of their architecture of their Qubole Data Service (QDS) as Suresh Ramaswamy, Senior Director Engineering from Qubole discusses how they built their big data platform (QDS) on AWS. Suresh outlines how QDS manages the data processing infrastructure, automatically […]

AWS Certified partners now have more ways to validate skills and showcase expertise. We are introducing two new AWS Certification Specialty Exams and our new AWS Certification Benefits Program. AWS Certification – Specialty Exams Our new AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty and AWS Certified Big Data – Specialty exams are designed for people with […]

Introduction by Terry Wise, Global Vice President, Channels & Alliances at AWS What can your data do for you? More importantly, how can insights derived from your data help you drive additional value for end customers? Our APN partners offer services and solutions that complement what AWS has to offer. As an example, many customers […]

AWS offers training resources to APN Partners so you can more effectively help customers leverage the AWS Cloud. Training can help you feel confident that you can effectively explain the value of AWS services and solutions to customers. We’re always working to update our training content to keep pace with AWS innovation. We’ve recently updated […]

Aaron Friedman is a Healthcare and Life Sciences Partner Solutions Architect with Amazon Web Services Over this past week, we’ve seen how many of our Healthcare and Life Sciences Partners architect compliant workloads on AWS (and these were just a couple of highlights from our Healthcare and Life Sciences Competency Partner base!). I’m continuously impressed […]

We’re excited to announce that we’re expanding AWS Solutions Training with new topics and more ways for you to get training. AWS Solutions Training was previously available to APN Consulting Partners as an instructor-led workshop. We now offer training in both instructor-led and online, self-paced formats. New AWS Solutions Training: AWS for Windows This 4-hour […]

This is a guest blog from Tony Bolander, Manager, Global Strategic Alliances, Splunk  AWS and Splunk have developed a powerful relationship through the AWS Partner Network (APN) over the past couple years, buoyed by shared customer focus and strategic alignment across executive leadership, engineering, and marketing teams. As I reflect on our work together, it […]

In 2016, we hosted 38 guest posts from AWS Partner Solutions Architects (SAs), who work very closely with both Consulting and Technology Partners as they build solutions on AWS. As we kick off 2017, I want to take a look back at all of the fantastic content created by our SAs. A few key themes emerged […]

The following is a guest post from Ken Chestnut, Global Ecosystem Lead, Big Data, AWS In my opinion, there’s never been a better time to take advantage of data and analytics. With people, businesses, and things, moving online and getting instrumented, organizations have an unprecedented opportunity to discover new insights and deliver business results. However, with this […]