Category: Announcements

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.

We are excited to highlight 156 AWS Partners that received new or renewed specializations in September for our global AWS Competency, AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP), and AWS Service Delivery 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.

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.

AWS Marketplace has reduced the listing fee for professional services transactions. Combined with AI-assisted listing creation, conversational discovery through agent mode, branded Storefronts, and variable payment models, consulting partners now have the economics and the infrastructure to make AWS Marketplace a scalable growth channel. Learn how partners are investing in AWS Marketplace, and how to start building your presence today.

We are excited to highlight 158 AWS Partners that received new or renewed specializations in August for our global AWS Competency, AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP), AWS Service Delivery, 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.

We are excited to highlight 149 AWS Partners that received new or renewed specializations in July for our global AWS Competency and AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP) 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.

The 2026 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 14, 2026.