AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog

We are excited to highlight 82 AWS Partners that received new designations in July 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.

The VMware Cloud on AWS Try & Buy Program offers multiple ways for AWS Partners to grow their business. First, there is a huge market for VMware Cloud on AWS. In a 2019 report, IDC put the partner addressable market opportunity for VMware Cloud on AWS at $3.1 billion. In addition to the sizeable market opportunity, trial engagements give AWS Partners an opportunity to earn customer trust, help them validate use cases before jumping into a production environment, and speed up customer migrations.

Cognizant is providing consulting and execution services for SAP customers to migrate the SAP landscape from on-premises to AWS, with SAP S/4HANA implementation on AWS combining SAP S/4HANA conversion and migration to AWS in a single step using the Cognizant migration factory called SmartMove. This solution provides a risk-free, comprehensive solution to transform customers’ SAP landscape into one that’s intelligent enterprise-ready.

An important focus for AWS and Red Hat is supporting IT modernization for U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) state government agencies. HHS modernization efforts include moving to the cloud, connecting disparate datasets, and embracing shared services across multiple agencies. Learn how the Red Hat and AWS cloud-based platform provides scalability, on-demand access to resources, and self-service functionalities to users.

A Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) can integrate, join forces with, and work alongside in-house security teams, or provide full outsourcing for AWS security operations. To help customers looking for support from MSSPs, we created a new baseline standard of quality called Level 1 Managed Security Services. The new AWS Level 1 MSSP Competency designation features AWS Partners that have had their technical and operational capabilities successfully validated against this baseline.

XAPP AI is an AWS Machine Learning Competency Partner that provides conversational AI solutions empowering the next generation of customer service and rapid ROI. Learn about a conversational self-service (CSS) solution created by XAPP AI and powered by AWS AI services. The solution gives you the ability to provide this level of self-service experience by allowing users to ask natural language questions and get accurate answers from existing corporate knowledge bases.

At Lemongrass, an AWS Premier Consulting Partner, the thinking is that a regionally resilient design is more than sufficient for many organizations, as it meets and exceeds what is typically run on-premises today. Learn how they couple this with the backup images/snaps being replicated into a second region “just in case” so there is an image from which to rebuild the landscape. It’s the sweet spot between too much (compute) and too little (+risk), plus it protects against root account compromise in a public cloud.

Many customers at DNX Solutions struggle with different facets of their cloud platform optimization, but scalability is usually identified as one of the main factors to drive a cloud modernization project. Learn how DNX Solutions modernized a customer’s heavy image processing jobs, and moved from a traditional pooling mechanism to an event-driven architecture supported by AWS Batch and Amazon EventBridge. The key objective of the process detailed in this post was to enable the customer to scale their data platform.

The APN Ambassador Program is a vibrant worldwide community of technical experts from AWS Partner Network (APN) Consulting and ISV Partners. Local AWS communities are a vital resource for cloud professionals around the world, and many of these are hosted by APN Ambassadors. Members of local communities look to their leaders to provide guidance and mentorship on how to build AWS skills, solve technical problems, and grow their careers.

A large public sector organization in India was looking for a solution that would address key challenges in their existing ERP and build systems. Tech Mahindra chose SAP as its core solution to address the customer’s key requirements, and this solution enables the customer to adopt new business models, manage business change at speed, orchestrate internal and external resources, and use the predictive power of AI. In this post, learn how different AWS components can help you host SAP applications on AWS.