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The AWS Direct Connect Partner Program replaces the AWS Direct Connect Service Delivery Program with a two-tier path that opens partner validation to new and emerging AWS Regions. Partners can now join at V1 on the strength of their technical capability, before they have customer case studies, and move up to V2 as they win customers. A dedicated validation track also brings validated partners to the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. Read on to learn what changed, how the tiers compare, and how to apply.

The race to deploy agentic AI is outpacing the governance needed to put it into production – 74% of companies plan to deploy by 2027, yet only 21% have mature governance models. AWS launched GEAR (Governance Enabling Agentic Readiness) to close that gap, identifying partners whose governance accelerators compress months of setup into weeks and turn AI pilots into production-ready systems with measurable results.

We’re excited to bring you AWS re:Invent 2026 both in-person and virtually! The conference is November 30 – December 4 in Las Vegas, with virtual opportunities to watch keynotes and Innovation Talks live. To help you prepare, we curated a list of key re:Invent information for AWS Partner and AWS Marketplace communities.

AWS Partners can now access three new Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) pathways and earn credentials through AWS Skill Builder to build and validate the depth required for production-ready agentic AI delivery.

The Attributed Revenue Dashboard in AWS Partner Central brings Partner Revenue Measurement insights to life with automated revenue data by Partner product, AWS service, and billing period. Partners can use these insights to demonstrate impact, sharpen co-sell strategies, and unlock greater AWS investment.

The AWS Data Competency (previously AWS Data and Analytics Competency) is expanding with two new categories—Databases and Relational Databases—along with new performance-based Signature benefits for Partners delivering data architectures at scale.

Learn how a major UK energy retailer partnered with Gorilla, an AWS Partner, to transform its residential pricebook process from a 10 to 14 day manual workflow into an automated, cloud-native solution that delivers updated pricing in under one hour, achieving a 95% reduction in cycle time, 75% fewer pricing errors, and full Market-wide Half Hourly Settlement (MHHS) compliance, all without replacing its existing SAP IS-U infrastructure.

Nubank, one of the world’s largest digital banks, runs entirely on AWS while serving 119 million customers. Nubank achieved over $15 million in verified annualized savings by partnering with PointFive and using Amazon DynamoDB pricing economics. This post explores how AWS, PointFive, and Nubank collaborated to turn cloud efficiency into a funding engine for resilience and AI innovation.

Modern data architectures often rely on separate databases for transactions, analytics, and AI, leading to extract, transform, and load (ETL) latency; data inconsistency; and rising costs. OceanBase addresses these challenges with a unified multimodel architecture that converges online transaction processing (OLTP), online analytical processing (OLAP), and vector retrieval within a single engine on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

As enterprises deploy AI agents at scale, traditional identity governance designed for human users can’t keep pace. With 80% of organizations reporting unintended agent actions, the need for purpose-built agent identity security has never been greater. Learn how SailPoint’s Agent Identity Security (AIS), built on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, extends proven governance principles to autonomous AI agents, enabling automatic discovery, least-privilege enforcement, and continuous access reviews without slowing innovation.