AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog
New AWS CloudFormation Stack Quick-Create Links Feature Simplifies Customer Onboarding
At AWS, we listen to our customers and partners to learn where we can improve, and our roadmap is almost exclusively driven by customer feedback. Based on the feedback we received on the customer onboarding process, we are pleased to announce that the AWS CloudFormation team has added the Stack Quick-Create Links feature which solves the issues of embedding parameters in the launch stack URL, and directing users to an AWS CloudFormation wizard that has been reduced to a single page.
Unlocking Hybrid Architecture’s Potential with DevOps
Last week in our MSP Partner Spotlight series, we heard from Jeff Aden at 2nd Watch and learned about the value that next gen MSPs can bring to their customers through well managed migrations and through 2nd Watch’s Four Key Steps of Optimizing Your IT Resources. Another area of new value that AWS MSPs can […]
Why Next-Generation MSPs Need Next-Generation Monitoring
We wrote a couple of months ago about how ISVs are rapidly evolving their capabilities and products to meet the growing needs of next generation Managed Service Providers (MSPs), and we heard from Cloud Health Technologies about how they are Enabling Next-Generation MSPs with cloud management tools that span the breadth of customer engagements from […]
Cloud Migration: Measurement at the Moment Of Truth
By Lee Atchison, Sr. Director of Strategic Architecture, New Relic This is a guest post from New Relic, an Advanced APN Technology Partner and AWS Migration Competency Partner, When migrating applications to AWS, it doesn’t matter if you are rehosting, replatforming, or planning a full refactor—as you take each step, you should know what’s working. […]
Four Key Steps of Optimizing Your IT Resources
In past posts, we have written about The Evolution of Managed Services in Hyperscale Cloud Environments and discussed how AWS and our APN Partners are Raising the Bar in light of this progression. Let’s now hear directly from a few of our MSP Partners who have embraced this new ideology in managed services and who […]
AWS Microsoft Workloads Competency Now Includes Database Solutions
The AWS Partner Network (APN) is excited to announce updates to the AWS Microsoft Workloads Competency, as well as introduce the latest wave of talented APN Partners with Microsoft Workloads Competency status! This Competency has been updated to provide our customers with an easy way of finding skilled APN Partners to match their Windows workload […]
Partner SA Roundup- June 2017
For this month’s Partner SA roundup, AWS Partner SAs Juan Villa, Pratap Ramamurthy, and David Potes discuss three APN Technology Partners: Cloud Conformity, Kinetica, and Vault. Let’s dive in! Cloud Conformity, by Juan Villa Have you ever wanted to have an always-available advisor who specializes in cloud operations? An advisor that can find […]
Supporting Customers as They Migrate Microsoft SQL Server Workloads to AWS
A guest post by Datavail, an AWS Partner Network (APN) Consulting Partner and an AWS Microsoft Workloads Competency Partner specializing in database solutions. Through the AWS Competency Program, we’ve been validated by AWS for our proven expertise in offering applications and database solutions built on the Microsoft SQL Server platform on AWS. This includes […]
Powering IoT Innovation on AWS – Bsquare, Eseye, and ThingLogix Highlights, June 2017
Introduction by Terry Wise, Global Vice President, Channels & Alliances at AWS The Internet of Things (IoT) is changing the way companies collect, store, analyze, and take action from data through connected devices. AWS has built IoT specific services, such as AWS IoT and AWS Greengrass to help you simply and securely connect your devices to […]
Qubole featured in AWS “This is My Architecture”
By Paul Sears. Paul is a Partner Solutions Architect (SA) at AWS. Qubole opened up the hood of their architecture of their Qubole Data Service (QDS) as Suresh Ramaswamy, Senior Director Engineering from Qubole discusses how they built their big data platform (QDS) on AWS. Suresh outlines how QDS manages the data processing infrastructure, automatically […]