AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog

As we celebrate Black History Month in 2022, the AWS Partner Network (APN) is honored to share some perspectives from several members of our global AWS Partner community. Isaac Oben is an AWS Ambassador and Sr. IT Lead at CDW. He has 15+ years of experience architecting, designing, and delivering IT solutions to customers across multiple industries. Larry Gilreath is the worldwide leader for the Systems Integrators Partner Management Solutions Architecture team at AWS.

Proper certificate management helps organizations secure their data, authenticate users, and identify devices on their networks. Using Secardeo’s certEP (Certificate Enrollment Proxy) enables customers running Active Directory on AWS (and on premises) to take advantage of the scalable and fully managed nature of AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority, without sacrificing security or requiring extensive experience managing keys and certificates with hardware security modules.

Amazon Athena is a serverless interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Data stored in S3 can span gigabytes to petabytes, however, and querying such massive data poses unique challenges. Follow along as experts from AWS and Innovative Solutions present a use case-based approach to help evaluate these challenges and propose solutions to improve Amazon Athena query performance.

We are excited to highlight 60 AWS Partners that received new designations in January 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.

Forward-looking finance teams will build resilience and responsiveness to future disruption. To deliver this strategic mandate, finance offices must be data-driven and share insights that help the organization connect, predict, and adapt within a changing business environment. Learn how Genpact’s data lake analytics reference architecture helps finance teams incorporate functional expertise into AWS solutions with the goal of delivering business impact beyond increased productivity.

Although cloud migration is well underway among SAP and other ERP users, modernization is hard. Learn how Pillir’s EdgeReady Cloud rapid application development platform hosted on AWS helps enterprises advance their IT modernization plans. EdgeReady Cloud includes a diagnostic tool that allows development teams—and stakeholders throughout the organization—to visualize Advanced Business Application Programming (ABAP) customizations and discover technical debt.

Spatial data is a vital ingredient in today’s applications, enabling capabilities ranging from asset tracking and location-based marketing to monitoring deforestation and more. Learn about the most important areas that organizations need when working with spatial data in Amazon Redshift and how CARTO helps them unleash unique spatial visualization, analysis, and app development features right inside AWS’s cloud data warehouse.

Enterprise customers are modernizing existing workloads to cloud for various reasons. Cost optimization has always been a conversation starter, but that leads to application modernization and operational excellence, which brings agility to application development and enables faster GTM. Learn how Cognizant can help bridge the gap between the infrastructure-as-a-service and integration-platform-as-a-service platform models for modernizing batch processing applications on AWS.

Many applications are built to run on hybrid cloud environments, leveraging distributed services and data from multiple clouds, SaaS properties, on-premises infrastructure, and from the edge. Learn how Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer (IWO) delivers application resource optimization, providing a unified view of customer application environments in public, private, and hybrid cloud environments. IWO’s real-time decision engine helps lower costs, automate workloads, and optimize application resources.

As a modernization service provider, Effectual is focused on a cloud-first approach that includes end-to-end managed and professional services for every stage of IT modernization. Effectual views managed services from a holistic perspective that prioritizes security and compliance. Learn how they were able to integrate AWS next-generation monitoring, as well as operational services like Amazon DevOps Guru, to enhance the company’s managed services offering.