AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog

Symantec is an AWS Security Competency Partner that has integrated Amazon’s SSM Agent with their cloud-native Symantec Cloud Workload Protection (CWP) solution, which automates core security controls for AWS workloads, enabling business agility, risk reduction, and cost savings for organizations, while easing DevOps and administrative burdens. Customers can now deploy the CWP agent directly from the CWP console or just use a simple REST API call.

Having to debug a system with logs scattered in different places can make troubleshooting difficult, which is one of the reasons we recommend customers deliver AWS CloudTrail logs to a centralized Amazon S3 bucket. Although aggregating these logs is a big step forward, it still requires something to parse the logs and alert based on anomalies or high-risk API calls. Customers can integrate with solutions such as Datadog, which allows you to configure monitors and send critical change notifications to your team.

We have refreshed the popular APN Marketing Toolkit, which includes strategies to help you build engaging marketing collateral using the latest AWS branding and messaging guidelines. By leveraging AWS best practices, APN Partners can showcase their expertise and successfully promote their AWS solutions to customers. The APN Marketing Toolkit is for Select Tier and above APN Partners, or AWS Marketplace Sellers.

JFrog, an APN Advanced Technology Partner, is a proud integration partner of Amazon Amazon EKS. In this post, JFrog provides a detailed example of deploying a containerized application to Amazon EKS using JFrog Artifactory as the Kubernetes registry. We also explore how to configure Artifactory as your Kubernetes registry for Amazon EKS by provisioning Artifactory and Amazon EKS, and deploying the Docker images from Artifactory to Amazon EKS.

Corda Enterprise from APN Advanced Technology Partner R3 harnesses the most appropriate elements from the Corda blockchain platform—smart contract technology, immutability, and consensus on the shared perception of truth—and fine tunes them for the enterprise market. Corda Enterprise adds features like a Blockchain Application Firewall, support for SQL Server databases, and easy back-office integrations in a highly available and redundant configuration.

The AWS Competency Program welcomed 48 new APN Partners in July—spanning workload, solution, and industry designations. The AWS Competency Program helps customers identify and choose the world’s top APN Partners that have demonstrated technical proficiency and proven customer success in specialized solution areas. Please join us in welcoming our newest AWS Competency Partners!

VMworld 2018 US is the industry’s premier digital infrastructure event, and we put together a Know Before You Go Guide that highlights all of the activities happening that are related to VMware Cloud on AWS. This service has experienced a huge amount of interest since being announced at last year’s VMworld. Be sure to register for the VMworld Keynote on Monday, Aug. 27 at 9 a.m. PDT and hear from VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger and AWS CEO Andy Jassy.

In this post, the first in an APN Blog series about Amazon FreeRTOS development for AWS IoT Core, we go through the setup required for running the Amazon FreeRTOS application, how it works on a high level, and how to connect it to AWS IoT Core. We will also present Percepio Tracealyzer, a tool for debugging the real-time behavior of Amazon FreeRTOS applications, together with a real-world example where Tracealyzer was used to analyze a connectivity issue I encountered when getting started with this project.

Carlos Martell is a DevOps Engineer at Cloudreach, an APN Premier Consulting Partner. Carlos got his first AWS Certification in February 2017, and over the next year challenged himself to obtain all AWS Certifications. Learn about Carlos’s journey and benefit from his tips and tricks for becoming AWS Certified. He also shares best practices for preparing and studying for the exams, as well as how to approach exam day itself.

Now more than ever, nonprofits are using IT to reduce costs and maximize operational efficiency. We are excited to announce the new AWS Nonprofit Competency Program, highlighting our top APN Partners that have built solutions on AWS that support the unique missions of the nonprofits they serve. With the help of AWS Nonprofit Competency Partners, AWS customers can quickly, cost-effiectively, and securely leverage technology to scale mission impact and drive social change.