Category: Best Practices

Developing a co-sell program that supports your organization’s collaboration objectives with AWS involves identifying necessary activities and managing them to deliver results. The best practices outlined in this post are considered evergreen and have positively impacted AWS Partners who have prioritized their go-to-market strategy with AWS. To follow this guide, you must be a member of the AWS Partner Network (APN) and participate in the AWS ISV Accelerate Program.

Organizations running Oracle Database on vSphere environments are looking for migration paths for the database and the best path for them. In this post, explore database migration paths to AWS from on-premises vSphere environments and the benefit of integrating VMware Cloud on AWS with AWS Cloud Databases. We’ll also discuss how each migration path helps customers streamline operations, reduce costs, and improve overall business agility.

Kubernetes provides several autoscaling features that enable organizations to dynamically adjust their application resources in response to varying demands, but optimizing Kubernetes costs can be challenging. Learn how optimization tools like Karpenter and StormForge Optimize Live help organizations automate resource allocation, optimize performance, and reduce costs, thus making the process of cost optimization more accessible and efficient for anyone.

To help break down barriers and develop your cloud skills, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has created several methods to guide you on the correct learning journey, including learning plans, courses with different training styles, and a curated list of our most popular courses amongst AWS Partners. In this post, explore what training resonates with the thousands of partners already learning with AWS Partner Training and Certification.

The AWS Well-Architected Framework helps organizations design, build, and operate systems on AWS cloud environments. Wipro is an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner that has helped multiple SAP customers running their SAP applications on AWS to achieve agility, innovation at high speed, and improved resilience. This post highlights best practices and learnings from Well-Architected Framework Reviews conducted by Wipro using the SAP Lens.

The AWS SaaS Factory team has supported many AWS Partners in implementing Partner-Led Growth (PLG) tactics as part of their efforts to reduce customer acquisition cost, widen their funnel, and expand globally. If you’re thinking your SaaS business is not growing fast enough, PLG may be the key to unlock your product’s potential. Everyone from boards, investors, founders, C-suite executives, and even individual team members can benefit from understanding this game-changing strategy.

Over the years working with AWS Partners, we have learned that having a focused AWS practice helps partners be more successful in supporting our evolving mutual customer base. Learn how a dedicated AWS practice can be essential in getting the most out of your AWS Partner Network (APN) involvement, especially if your organization is on the Services Path. We’ll describe the five stages of a successful partner practice and offer insights into how to optimize your APN resources and benefits.

Learn how Rocketlane built its customer onboarding SaaS platform on AWS using the platform’s broad tools and services that helped the team innovate quickly, get support from programs such as AWS SaaS Factory, and go-to-market to reach customers through AWS Marketplace and AWS Activate for startups. In this Q&A with Deepak Balu, co-founder and CTO at Rocketlane, you’ll learn insights from Rocketlane’s journey that can help other organizations planning to adopt SaaS delivery model.

Whether you’re taking the first steps toward planning your software-as-a-service (SaaS) journey, or about to launch your first product, the new Journey to SaaS guide is designed to help drive your efforts to build, migrate, secure, and optimize SaaS solutions on AWS. Use this roadmap to identify which stage you’re in and review the corresponding actions, motivations, questions, pain points, and AWS SaaS Factory resources.

AWS offers programs and benefits that help partners of all sizes transform and improve their customer experience. Learn more about the tools, mechanisms, resources, and technical paths available to AWS Partners that can help them dive deeper into their AWS relationship, identify superpowers, and make the most of the AWS resources and programs available to support continued growth and success. Take advantage of APN programs to help you grow your business and reach your target customers.