Category: Announcements

We’re excited to announce the regional 2025 AWS Partners of the Year from Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). This year’s award winners have demonstrated exceptional innovation and commitment to customer success. Working side by side with AWS Partners has yielded remarkable results, and we’re excited to build upon these successes as we strengthen our partnerships throughout 2026.

Each year, we honor members of the AWS Partner Network (APN) from around the globe that play key roles in helping customers drive innovation and build solutions on AWS. Announced during a Partner Awards Gala at AWS re:Invent, the 2025 Geo and Global AWS Partner Awards recognize a wide range of partners whose business models have embraced specialization, innovation, and cooperation over the past year.

Learn about new innovations announced at AWS re:Invent 2025 that elevate how Partners work with AWS to deliver exceptional customer value. These enhancements to Partner programs, AWS Marketplace, and Partner Services are designed to expand opportunities and drive unprecedented growth across the AWS Partner Network.

New research from the AWS Partner Ecosystem Multiplier (PEM) 2025 Study reveals AWS Partners can achieve up to US$7.13 in services revenue for every US$1 of AWS technology sold. Discover six key strategies to maximize your business value through the AWS Partner Network (APN) and position your organization for success in the growing AI and cloud services market.

We’re announcing three new Agentic AI categories in the AWS AI Competency, helping customers find validated Partners who can implement production-ready autonomous systems. With IDC projecting 65% of organizations will fully deploy agentic AI by 2027, this expansion represents our largest Specialization launch to date with 60 Launch Partners ready to help customers move beyond experimentation to drive real business value. The launch also includes an automated validation process that cuts application time by up to 70%.

We’re expanding the AWS Resilience Competency to include Software Partners, which offers customers specialized solutions to enhance operational resilience and system reliability for critical workloads in the cloud.

AWS Partner Central is now available in the AWS Management Console, simplifying access to Partner Central and the AWS Marketplace Management Portal. This launch introduces powerful APIs and automation capabilities to help Partners streamline operations and scale their AWS business more efficiently.

Introducing AWS IAM temporary delegation, a new capability that enables ISV Accelerate Partners to streamline customer onboarding while maintaining security controls. Learn the benefits and how Partners are using this capability to transform their customer experience.

We’re introducing the Agentic AI Technical Learning Plan in AWS Skill Builder, offering AWS Partners more than 15 hours of specialized training to build scalable, production-ready agentic AI solutions. Through hands-on workshops and technical deep dives, Partners can develop expertise in multi-agent systems, implementation patterns, and enterprise-grade best practices.

We’re announcing strategic updates to Channel Partner Programs and Managed Services Provider Program for 2026, featuring enhanced incentives, streamlined benefits, and new deal registration capabilities. These changes are designed to help Partners scale their AWS practices more efficiently while driving greater customer success in digital modernization and AI initiatives.