Category: Announcements

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.

In the era of 5G, telecommunication services providers (telcos) are under pressure to find new ways to build, operate, and monetize networks while delivering new and greater value to customers. We’re excited to introduce the AWS Telecommunications Competency, which helps telcos find validated partners offering consulting services in key telecom solution areas, including Operations Support Systems (OSS), Business Support Systems (BSS), Communications as a Service (CaaS), Mobile Networks, and Media & TV.

We are excited to highlight 178 AWS Partners that received new or renewed designations in August 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.

In today’s fast-evolving digital landscape, security remains a concern for organizations of all sizes. As the threat landscape evolves, so do the solutions that address these challenges. The AWS Security Competency for ISVs aligns partner cyber security offerings to the needs of AWS customers, which is why the program now includes the “Data Security Posture Management” use case in the Data Protection category, and the “Temporary Elevated Access Management” use case in the Identity and Access Management category.

We’re excited to announce the AWS Automotive Competency, which helps AWS customers build towards an autonomous, customer-centric, and safe and sustainable future. The AWS Automotive Competency highlights specialized AWS Partners offering professional services and software solutions for automotive customers across: autonomous mobility, software-defined vehicle, connected mobility, sustainability, digital customer experience, product engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain.

In August 2023, AWS participated as a Global Diamond Sponsor at VMware Explore US 2023. Alongside AWS Partner VMware, the event highlighted our commitment to aiding customers in their digital transformation journey. From the AWS booth to sponsored sessions, our presence at VMware Explore showcased how customers can achieve a faster, safer, and more cost-effective cloud journey with VMware Cloud on AWS. Learn about the exciting announcements and access sessions on demand.

Last year, we announced Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP integration with VMware Cloud on AWS, and introduced support for single-Availability Zone deployments. Previously, AWS Transit Gateway has been a requirement of the solution, providing customers with flexibility with connecting their file systems to their VMware Cloud on AWS SDDCs. Now, we are excited to announce the removal of AWS Transit Gateway as a requirement from the solution. Instead, we are adding support for virtual private cloud (VPC) peering.

We are excited to highlight 161 AWS Partners that received new or renewed designations in May 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.