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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).

If your organization requires a faster time to market for Internet of Things (IoT) applications, AWS Partners have flexible, pre-built solutions to help reduce risk while building the foundational elements that are required to deploy an IoT solution at scale. Businesses interested in deploying an IoT solution should carefully consider which AWS Partner will best fit their organization’s needs, keeping in mind a few key elements, including capabilities, tenancy, security and compliance, migration, and pricing.

The AWS Partner community is energized about the potential of generative AI, and we recognize there are unique considerations for bringing these applications into production for commercial use cases. Ruba Borno, VP, WW Channels & Alliances at AWS, shares why AWS Partners are an integral part in ensuring customers realize the full value of generative AI offerings. Working together, AWS and partners will be guiding the development of business innovations and solutions for customers of all sizes and industries.

We are excited to highlight 154 AWS Partners that received new or renewed specializations in April for our global AWS Competency, AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP), AWS Service Delivery, and AWS Service Ready programs. These specializations span workload, solution, and industry, and help AWS customers identify top AWS Partners that can deliver on core business objectives. AWS Partners are focused on your success, helping customers take full advantage of the business benefits AWS has to offer.

We’re proud to announce and acknowledge the ASEAN AWS Partners of 2023 that are helping customers accelerate innovation, develop industry-focused solutions, and build resilience amidst the ever-changing economic climate. As ASEAN businesses continue to navigate economic headwinds, AWS Partners play a pivotal role as strategic advisors and technology experts in helping customers innovate, reduce costs, and build industry-focused solutions on AWS.

The AWS Ambassador Program is a vibrant worldwide community of technical experts, known as AWS Ambassadors, who are prominent leaders and passionate about sharing their AWS technical expertise. They author blogs and whitepapers, create and deliver public presentations, and contribute to open source projects. Our Ambassadors evangelize AWS via social media and facilitate peer-to-peer learning by presenting at conferences, leading workshops, and hosting user group events.

Whether you’re taking the first steps toward planning your software-as-a-service (SaaS) journey, or about to launch your first product, the new Journey to SaaS guide is designed to help drive your efforts to build, migrate, secure, and optimize SaaS solutions on AWS. Use this roadmap to identify which stage you’re in and review the corresponding actions, motivations, questions, pain points, and AWS SaaS Factory resources.

AWS offers programs and benefits that help partners of all sizes transform and improve their customer experience. Learn more about the tools, mechanisms, resources, and technical paths available to AWS Partners that can help them dive deeper into their AWS relationship, identify superpowers, and make the most of the AWS resources and programs available to support continued growth and success. Take advantage of APN programs to help you grow your business and reach your target customers.

As organizations continue to build and migrate more of their applications in the cloud, ensuring websites and applications are protected from external threats has become a top concern for businesses of all shapes and sizes. We’re excited to announce the AWS WAF Ready specialization to help customers deploy and maintain their application layer security solution with AWS WAF Ready Partner software products.

AWS Partners are uniquely positioned to help customers take full advantage of all that AWS has to offer and accelerate their journey to the cloud. We’re excited to share a few stories to help you learn how customers around the world have accelerated their cloud adoption and fueled innovation by working with AWS Partners. Learn how Metal Toad keeps a top comic site safe for San-Diego Comic-Con, how Vodafone works with Esri to build a UK-wide digital twin on AWS, and more.