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New AWS Certification Specialty Exams and Benefits

AWS Certified partners now have more ways to validate skills and showcase expertise. We are introducing two new AWS Certification Specialty Exams and our new AWS Certification Benefits Program. AWS Certification – Specialty Exams Our new AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty and AWS Certified Big Data – Specialty exams are designed for people with […]

Partner SA Roundup – May 2017

Every month or so I work with our awesome Emerging Partner SA team to highlight the technical innovations we’re seeing from a range of APN Technology Partners. This month, we’re going to hear from Partner SAs Ian Scofield, Juan Villa, and Erin McGill, as well as Partner Development Rep Makda Tesfa-George, who discuss solutions from […]

Overview of Oracle E-Business Suite on AWS – A New Whitepaper Now Available

By Jayaraman Vellore Sampathkumar. Jayaraman is an AWS Oracle Solution Architect.  Recently, we published a whitepaper on Oracle E-Business Suite on AWS. This whitepaper provides an architectural overview of Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2 on AWS and outlines the benefits and options for running Oracle E-Business Suite on AWS. AWS customers and APN Partners can leverage […]

AWS Training and Certification Portal Now Live

AWS Training and Certification can help APN Partners deepen AWS knowledge and skills, differentiate their business, and better serve customers. And now, the AWS Training and Certification Portal allows you to access and manage your training and certification activities, progress, and benefits – all in one place. Previously, you had to rely on multiple websites to […]

Citrix Customers – Bring Your Own Windows Client Licenses for Use on AWS

By Andrew Kloman, Partner Solutions Architect at AWS Citrix customers, did you know that you can bring your own Microsoft Windows client licenses and use them on Amazon Web Services (AWS)? This includes deploying Windows 10 on AWS for your Citrix XenDesktop deployments. Within the Studio console, Citrix XenDesktop supports the desktop deployment model called […]

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AWS HIPAA Program Update – Removal of Dedicated Instance Requirement

By Aaron Friedman, Partner Solutions Architect at AWS focused on Healthcare and Life Sciences I love working with Healthcare Competency Partners in the AWS Partner Network (APN) as they deliver solutions that meaningfully impact lives. Whether building SaaS solutions on AWS tackling problems like electronic health records, or offering platforms designed to achieve HIPAA compliance for customers, […]

Learn about the SAP and Amazon Web Services Collaboration for Life Sciences Customers

By Christopher Chen. Chris is the Global Strategic Technology Alliances Lead for HCLS at AWS. This week, SAP is holding their annual user conference, SAPPHIRE NOW, and we’re excited to announce a new collaboration between AWS and SAP that will support our mutual Life Sciences customers on their journey to the cloud. SAP has been […]

Why Use AWS Lambda in a Custom VPC?

By Akash Jain. Akash is a Partner Solutions Architect (SA) at AWS.  As a Partner Solutions Architect (SA), I work closely with APN Partners as they look to use AWS services in innovative ways to address their customers’ use cases. Recently, I came across an interesting use case with an APN Partner who configured an […]

Lessons Learned from Working with Amazon Web Services – A Post by Infor

Three years ago, Infor – one of the world’s leading providers of enterprise applications and an AWS Partner Network (APN) Advanced Technology Partner – announced they were going “all in” on AWS. It has been truly exciting to see their progress as they migrate their business and their enterprise customers to the cloud. From using […]

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Testing SaaS Solutions on AWS

The move to a SaaS delivery model is often motivated by a fundamental need for greater agility and customer responsiveness. SaaS providers often succeed and thrive based on their ability to rapidly release new features without compromising the stability of their solutions. Achieving this level of agility starts with a commitment to building a robust DevOps pipeline that includes a rich collection of automated tests.