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Category: Best Practices

Creating great authentication experiences with Amazon Cognito and Authsignal

Learn how to balance the competing demands of authentication security and user experience in today’s digital landscape, where customers expect frictionless interactions while businesses require strong fraud prevention. This post covers the integration between Amazon Cognito and Authsignal, showcasing how they work together to create adaptive authentication experiences that respond to user context and business needs.

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Malware protection for Amazon Elastic File System with Cloud Storage Security

By Aaron Gettings, Director of Engineering at Cloud Storage Security by Ashok Mahajan, Sr. Partner Solutions Architect, Startups at AWS by Neil Salamack, Senior Product Marketing Manager at AWS Managing file storage data security is an inherently complex task. Uncoordinated file storage in the cloud often leads to disparate environments with fragmented data. The result […]

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Unlock Advanced AI Control with Kong AI Gateway And Amazon Bedrock

The integration of Amazon Bedrock and Kong AI Gateway provides organizations with a comprehensive solution for scaling generative AI implementations, addressing key challenges in cost management, model orchestration, and operational visibility. Through Kong AI Gateway’s token-based cost controls, automated semantic routing across multiple LLMs, and comprehensive AI observability features, organizations can effectively manage and govern their AI applications while leveraging Amazon Bedrock’s secure foundation of leading foundation models and managed infrastructure.

Congrats to Our 2025 AWS Ambassador Award Winners and Meet Our New AWS Ambassadors

The AWS Ambassador Program is a vibrant worldwide community of AWS experts, known as AWS Ambassadors, from AWS Partner Network (APN) Services and Software Partners. AWS Ambassadors are recognized as influential AWS professionals in supporting and driving their organization’s AWS proficiency and sharing their thought leadership with the broader community. AWS Ambassadors possess and maintain […]

Building Your Open Source Commercial Strategy with AWS

The journey from open source project to profitable business presents unique challenges in today’s technology landscape. While traditional software companies directly monetize their code, open source founders face the complex task of balancing community engagement with commercial viability. AWS has developed a comprehensive framework to support open source projects through this transition, bridging the gap between open source software and enterprise solutions. Through the AWS Global Startup Program (GSP), AWS provides critical support in two key areas: developing enterprise-ready offerings and executing comprehensive go-to-market strategies. This can include technical expertise, dedicated architectural support, and market acceleration with the AWS Marketplace. The program helps startups create managed services that make open source technology simpler, more stable, and secure while maintaining community trust.

AWS Partner Guide to AI Agents and Tools in AWS Marketplace

AWS Marketplace announces AI Agents and Tools, offering hundreds of agent solutions including pre-built agents, agent tools, and professional services to help enterprises adopt and govern autonomous systems. Partners can now leverage new API-based and container-based delivery methods to package and scale their AI agent solutions directly to AWS customers.

Showcase Your Expertise with New AWS Specialization Badge Categories

AWS Specialization badges now include categories, allowing Partners to better showcase their validated expertise and helping customers more easily identify Partners with specific capabilities that match their business needs. The new category listing feature is seamlessly integrated into the “Create New Badge” process within Badge Manager in AWS Partner Central.

Q1 2025 AWS Ambassadors Blog

Meet Our New AWS Ambassadors from Q1 2025 and Explore Latest Activities

The AWS Ambassador Program welcomed 19 new AWS experts in Q1 2025 across seven regions. The AWS Ambassador Program is a vibrant worldwide community of technical experts, known as AWS Ambassadors, who are prominent leaders and passionate about sharing their AWS technical expertise. They author blogs and whitepapers, create and deliver public presentations, and contribute to open source projects. Our Ambassadors evangelize AWS via social media and facilitate peer-to-peer learning by presenting at conferences, leading workshops, and hosting user group events.

How VGS achieved cost savings on Amazon Aurora

Transitioning to I/O-Optimized storage mode for Amazon Aurora has proven to be a game-changer for Very Good Security (VGS), leading to substantial cost savings without any negative repercussions. In this blog post, learn the steps VGS took to identify the right database candidate, transition to Amazon Aurora I/O-Optimized storage and review the result after the transition.