Category: Best Practices

Sustainability is a strategic priority for organizations in the global transition to net-zero emissions. Many AWS Partners have chosen to establish a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) to achieve their decarbonization goals. Learn how to incorporate sustainability into your organization with a CCoE and how AWS services can help. With these efforts in place, your business can consider joining the 460 signatories who have signed The Climate Pledge and are working towards carbon neutrality by 2040.

Dive into SparkLearn’s path towards establishing a SaaS business with insights from Chad Udell, Co-CEO at SparkLearn. Notable points of discussion with the AWS SaaS Factory team revolved around the significance of adopting a product-led growth strategy and harnessing cloud services to channel resources towards enhancing the end-user experience rather than infrastructure. AWS SaaS Factory helps organizations looking to build new products or optimize existing SaaS solutions on AWS.

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.

Salesforce customers hosted on Hyperforce can now access services over the public internet. Some customers require dedicated, managed connections for compliance or reliability, but Salesforce Express Connect is incompatible with Hyperforce. For direct connectivity from on-premises to Hyperforce, AWS Direct Connect offers guaranteed bandwidth and an SLA. This post provides best practices on using AWS Direct Connect to access Hyperforce deployed on AWS.

To grow with AWS, partners can pursue Competency designations which validate an organization’s expertise through rigorous assessment by AWS experts. By meeting requirements around projects, certifications, and capabilities, partners can demonstrate their proficiency and earn an AWS specialization badge in specific industries, use cases, or workloads. Attaining an AWS Competency distinguishes partners, but the preparation process also transforms practices.

Complying with FedRAMP poses challenges for DevOps teams, including slower deployment speeds, process overhead, and complex AWS GovCloud requirements. To optimize velocity while maintaining compliance, organizations can shift security controls left, automate workflows, and architect secure in-boundary pipelines. With the proper frameworks, teams can increase deployment frequency and reduce change failure rates in FedRAMP environments.

As we continue to transform the AWS Partner experience, we’re excited to share updates to the Validation Checklists (VCL) for AWS Specialization Programs (AWS Competency, Managed Service Provider, Service Delivery, and Service Ready). Effective January 1, 2024, the updates drive efficiencies during onboarding, allowing partners to achieve an AWS Specialization faster and making it easier to utilize benefits.

The AWS SaaS Factory team delves into ITV’s innovative strides in the media and entertainment industry—particularly its creation of Planet V, an autonomous platform facilitating the reservation of TV ad campaigns on ITVX, a network of streaming channels. After two years of production, Planet V underwent a rearchitecting process aimed at enhancing customer experience and ensuring a future-proof solution. ITV enlisted AWS Partner The Scale Factory to collaboratively design, build, and fortify the platform’s infrastructure.

AWS launched a Generative AI Center of Excellence to help partners keep pace with rapid advancements in generative AI. The CoE provides exclusive resources like playbooks, trainings, and marketing assets to educate partners on building solutions using AWS generative AI services. We’ll continue adding generative AI resources to accelerate strategies that enable partners to help customers adopt generative AI securely, responsibly, and cost-effectively.

Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle provides all the management benefits of Amazon RDS, as well as the ability to customize the database. While RDS makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale relational databases within AWS, however, legacy applications like Oracle E-Business Suite (E-BS) require customization of database environments not supported by RDS. Learn about Navisite’s implementation of Oracle E-BS with Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle, along with advice for setup and management.