Category: Foundational (100)

Migrating workloads to the cloud is a transformative journey that requires careful planning, expertise, and understanding of an organization’s readiness. AWS Partners have several options to conduct a cloud readiness consulting assessment for their customers, including a cloud readiness assessment which is a fundamental step in assisting customers with their migration to the cloud. Learn how the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework can be used while assessing a business’s readiness to the cloud.

The AWS Ambassador Program is a vibrant worldwide community of AWS experts from AWS Partner Network (APN) Services and Software Partners. They are prominent leaders who are passionate about sharing their AWS expertise, and we’re honored to recognize this year’s top AWS Ambassadors for their outstanding performance and exemplary business impact and thought leadership. We also recognize the AWS Ambassador Certification All-Stars who have shown technical depth by holding all active AWS Certifications.

We are excited to highlight 177 AWS Partners that received new or renewed designations in September for our global AWS Service Delivery, AWS Competency, AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP), and AWS Service Ready programs. These designations 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.

Explore ways that AWS Partners can create more revenue streams for their business by leveraging various AWS solutions, tools, and programs that enable customers to modernize and take advantage of the agility and innovation of AWS cloud-native technologies. We’ll also highlight two AWS Partners, SourceFuse and Kloia, who describe how modernizing Microsoft workloads on AWS has helped them grow and sustain their practices by improving recurring revenue, increasing profitability, and creating additional revenue streams.

Many customers continue their cloud adoption journey by modernizing and optimizing workloads to reap benefits by leveraging AWS managed services. To help their customers realize the modernization goals, AWS built new training courses and learning journeys exclusively for AWS Partners. The new digital course “Using Modernization Pathways to Modernize on AWS” is accessible via AWS Skill Builder and provides an overview of all six modernization pathways and where they fit in the migration landscape.

The bar for business success keeps getting higher, and the changing economic climate is challenging AWS customers to deliver more value at lower cost. The regional 2023 AWS Partner Awards India ceremony was held in Goa and celebrated partners that have achieved successful customer outcomes by leveraging the breadth and depth of AWS. Please join us in congratulating these AWS Partners for their success!

We are excited to introduce the Partner Initiative Funding (PIF) template in the AWS Partner Funding Portal (APFP), enabling AWS Partners to easily self-access their agreement and any initiative funds without relying on their AWS partner manager. The template unifies and standardizes the different funding experiences into one template, and provides funding transparency throughout the funding cycle. This improves the overall funding process time for partners by having a configurable workflow.

Developing a sustainable and effective co-sell program with AWS demands a comprehensive understanding of your AWS collaboration objectives, and a keen focus on empowering your sales team to effectively work with AWS stakeholders. Sales teams that are well-informed about AWS’s culture, sales and GTM stakeholders, and sales processes can co-sell more efficiently, especially when equipped with resources such as pitch decks, call scripts, and case studies. Learn more about the “Co-Sell Development Framework.”

AWS customers are accelerating their digital transformation, simplifying procurement, and optimizing costs by using AWS Marketplace to discover, procure, provision, and manage third-party software, data, and services all in one place. Explore some of the reasons customers choose to finance AWS Marketplace purchases, how financing works, and how AWS Marketplace Customer Financing can help customers and AWS Partners get started with financing.

Accenture recently announced an extension of its strategic collaboration with AWS to help clients leverage the value of foundational models and generative AI for faster business transformation. Learn how Accenture is working with AWS to help clients leverage Amazon Bedrock, utilizing the most advanced foundational models, such as Amazon Titan, and deploying industry-leading technologies like Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Inferentia, alongside other AWS AI services.