Category: Events

The 2023 AWS Partner Awards honor partners who have demonstrated outstanding results and innovation with the use of AWS products and solutions. AWS Partners can self-nominate themselves to be considered across a select number of AWS Partner Award categories. Award submissions will be reviewed by a third-party and selected with special emphasis placed on customer success use cases presented in the nomination form. All nominations must be submitted by 11:59 PM PDT on August 17, 2023.

AWS built-in partner solutions integrate automatically with AWS foundational services to simplify and streamline the deployment experience. Available in AWS Marketplace, AWS built-in partner solutions are designed to automate, configure, and scale across multi-account environments following AWS best practices. This helps customers achieve business goals for faster growth and scale, all while increasing security posture by leveraging cloud foundational domains.

With more than 100,000 AWS Partners across the globe, how do you find the right partner for the right job? AWS Specializations help customers find a short list of trusted cloud partners with diverse expertise. Learn about the four programs that provide technical validation based on AWS services, workloads, use cases, industries, and managed services: Service Delivery, Service Ready, Competency, and Managed Service Provider (MSP).

Thank you for joining us in Las Vegas for AWS re:Invent 2022! We hope you enjoyed all of the educational content and big announcements. If you missed anything or just want to recap, we have rounded up the most relevant launches, program updates, and educational content available for the AWS Partner community, including the Partner Keynote with Ruba Borno. Reminder that you can watch on-demand re:Invent keynotes, leadership sessions, breakouts, and more.

Introducing the AWS Partner Profitability Framework, an intuitive and reliable way to maximize business value with the AWS Partner Network (APN). The AWS Partner Profitability Framework optimizes the partner journey to broaden the value and deepen expertise across various business models. According to a 2022 study conducted by Canalys, partners with a breadth of offerings can achieve a $6.40 multiplier per $1 AWS sold. 

We are excited to announce the new AWS Conversational AI Competency launching in Q1 2023, which helps enterprises implement high-quality, highly effective chatbot, virtual assistant, and IVR solutions through the expertise of AWS Partners. AWS Conversational AI Competency Partners provide domain expertise, tools, and services to aid in selecting use cases, defining Natural Language Understanding (NLU) Intents and training phrases, designing effective conversational flows, and more.

Tens of thousands of customers—from startups to large enterprises—are realizing significant price performance using AWS Graviton-based instances in Amazon EC2. The AWS Graviton Delivery specialization makes it easy for customers to accelerate and scale their adoption of AWS Graviton to achieve better workload performance and cost savings. AWS Graviton Delivery Partners have hands-on experience and proven expertise to help customers achieve better workload performance and cost savings with Graviton.

We are pleased to announce the AWS Glue Delivery specialization to help customers find validated AWS Partners with expertise and proven success delivering AWS Glue for data integration, data pipeline, and data catalog use cases. The AWS Glue Delivery specialization recognizes AWS Partners who offer consulting services to help customers modernize their use of data and accelerate digital transformation.

We’re excited to announce the launch of the Amazon SageMaker Ready specialization for AWS Partners with Amazon SageMaker software offerings. Through this specialization, customers can identify software solutions that integrate with Amazon SageMaker—allowing them to seamlessly solve use cases and innovate with machine learning. Software offerings include data platforms, data pre-processing and feature stores, ML frameworks, MLOps tools, and business decisioning and applications.

The Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) Delivery specialization makes it easy for customers find validated AWS Partners with proven success delivering migrations and building solutions on Amazon MSK. Amazon MSK Delivery Partners are proficient in expeditiously implementing Amazon MSK integrations with other AWS services to improve the scope and specificity of real-time analytics.