Category: Announcements

AWS is excited to unveil the 2022 Partners of the Year from Canada. Announced during the AWS Toronto Partner Summit, the awards recognize AWS Partner Network (APN) members who have demonstrated outstanding results and innovation using AWS products and solutions. Their expertise allows AWS customers in a wide range of industries—from finance to sports, startups to the public sector—to transform their industries and solve the most difficult business challenges.

AWS Partner Accreditations are AWS Partner Network (APN) partner-exclusive courses that provide foundational cloud knowledge and skills. Offered directly through AWS in an on-demand or live, instructor-led format, earning an accreditation requires a low time commitment, with a short test given directly afterward. After passing the test, you’ll receive a digital badge from AWS for display on your resume or social media profiles.

We are excited to highlight 108 AWS Partners that received new designations 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.

This year marks the 10-year anniversary of the AWS Partner Network (APN). To celebrate this important milestone, we’re launching a series of partner transformation stories—“10 Years of Success”—highlighting some of our AWS Partners who have been “all in” and grown with us over the past decade. Up next in our Q&A-style series is Sumo Logic, an AWS Partner with a leading cloud-based machine data analytics SaaS platform designed to deliver reliable and secure cloud-native applications.

From exciting announcements to insightful sessions, this post recaps what you may have missed at VMware Explore US 2022. This year, we marked the fifth year of the jointly-engineered VMware Cloud on AWS solution. Since announcing our strategic partnership in 2016, followed by the general availability of this unique managed offering at VMworld 2017, the VMware Cloud on AWS solution has evolved and continues to help customers globally migrate and modernize their VMware workloads to the cloud.

In celebration of the 10-year anniversary of the AWS Partner Network (APN), we are highlighting some of our AWS Partners who have grown with us over the past decade. ClearScale is an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner that helps customers design, build, deploy, and manage complex cloud architectures on time and on budget. We spoke with ClearScale CEO Pavel Pragin about how their business has grown and evolved over the last decade and what AWS partner programs have been most valuable.

Please join us in congratulating these leading AWS Partners for their success! Each year, we honor members of the AWS Partner Network (APN) who are leaders in the channel and play key roles in helping customers drive innovation and build solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS Partner Awards recognize a wide range of born-in-the-cloud and traditional services, software, and hardware partners whose business models have embraced specialization and collaboration.

Next in our “10 Years of Success” series, we’re featuring Omegapoint, a leading consulting company specializing in cybersecurity and cyber-secure digitalization. Omegapoint leverages experience in digital transformation to help customers develop secure architecture, systems, and applications. We spoke with Emanuel Hjertzén, AWS Community Lead and Co-Founder of Omegapoint, about Omegapoint’s work and accomplishments, as well as how its business has grown with AWS over the last 10 years.

The new AWS Partner: Sales Accreditation (Business) course is available globally in more than eight languages in both digital and instructor-led options. It’s designed to help sales specialists, account managers, and consultants become more effective sellers, while foundational content is focused on cloud concepts and business value, objection handling, and co-selling with AWS. Individuals who earn an 80% on the associated assessment earn their accreditation and the new AWS Sales Accredited partner digital badge.

VMware Explore is back in person from August 29 – September 1, and AWS is excited to join business and technical leaders from around the world at this industry event. With expert breakout sessions, insightful roundtables, partnership keynote, and a cloud-focused day, we’ll showcase how VMware Cloud on AWS is helping customers achieve a faster, safer, and cost-effective journey to the cloud. Visit us at VMware Explore to learn how you can accelerate your business transformation goals with VMware Cloud on AWS.