AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog

We are excited to highlight 198 AWS Partners that received new or renewed specializations in November 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.

Kubecost provides granular visibility into Kubernetes cluster costs on AWS, enabling easy comparison with AWS Cost Explorer. This post guides users through validating Kubecost cost data against AWS billing, troubleshooting discrepancies, and ensuring complete resource discovery. It covers aggregating costs in Kubecost dashboards, filtering to compare specific assets, reconciling adjusted pricing, and using CSV exports for programmatic validation.

As enterprises migrate to the cloud, advanced cybersecurity solutions are essential to prevent sophisticated attacks. Trellix’s virtual intrusion prevention system (vIPS) integrates with AWS Gateway Load Balancer to provide real-time threat detection and prevention. Utilizing techniques like behavioral analysis and signatureless detection, Trellix vIPS helps secure VPCs against evolving threats. As an AWS Specialization Partner, Trellix enables resilience against cyberattacks for customers’ cloud environments.

A global technology firm migrated its massive on-premises Apache Hadoop data center to Amazon EMR and achieved major cost savings and capabilities. By deploying Pepperdata’s optimization software, which works in real-time to maximize resource utilization, the firm achieved nearly 25% additional cost reduction on top of its Amazon EMR savings, without any code changes or manual tuning. Learn how Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer rapidly identifies existing nodes where more jobs could be completed.

Shipsy is an AWS Partner and AI-powered logistics management platform that streamlines supply chain operations. Shipsy’s business intelligence platform leverages AWS to deliver a robust, cost-effective analytics infrastructure that provides rapid, reliable insights from operational data. It enables powerful visualization and equips businesses with the tools needed to evaluate performance and boost data-driven decision making.

Organizations face challenges managing and sharing knowledge. Traditionally, employees waste time searching documents or asking experts for guidance. AI assistants address this by quickly providing relevant, personalized responses. As Cognizant’s HR assistant use case shows, generative AI solutions enable self-service access to tailored knowledge that can reshape workplace efficiency by streamlining processes, reducing response times, and empowering employees.

Fivetran and Amazon Redshift Serverless help companies integrate data from various sources into a centralized data warehouse. This allows for automated data movement, transformation, and scalability without infrastructure management. Together, Amazon Redshift Serverless and Fivetran offer connectors to over 250 data sources and reliable analytics so organizations can make better data-driven decisions.

Today’s retail customers are tech-savvy and seek convenience and flexibility from the ecommerce ecosystem. Vinculum, a global software provider, plays a vital role in empowering retail customers with its powerful SaaS products that are available for the entire retail value chain. Vinculum’s Vin eRetail solution offers the capability to syndicate product information and digital assets across various webstores, marketplaces, and other sales channels.

Manufacturers are adopting cloud solutions such as digital twins to gain new insights with existing data, improve collaboration, increase automation, gain detailed insights to reduce CO2 emissions, and increase efficiencies across product design. Learn how aPriori’s Manufacturing Insights Platform hosted on AWS provides an end-to-end digital twin solution empowering manufacturers to unlock and identify new opportunities rapidly for innovation, growth, cost savings, and sustainability.

Customers are finding that an event-driven, serverless architecture helps them to accelerate business outcomes. Learn how Trek10 worked with Stance, a renowned lifestyle brand that’s revolutionized the sock industry with its innovative designs and high-quality products, to transform from a low-code integration platform-as-a-service (iPaaS) platform to leveraging AWS. Explore the business and technical challenges faced, and the impact of those problems on both customers and Stance’s internal teams.