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Amazon VPC for On-Premises Network Engineers – Part 1

Editor’s note: This is the first of a popular two-part series by Nick Matthews. Read Part 2 >> By Nick Matthews, Partner Solutions Architect, CCIE #23560 I relate better to networking when people use words and phrases I know, such as “router on a stick,” “MPLS WAN,” and “VRF,” and then show me a packet […]

Updated APN Partner Accreditation Courses Available in More Languages

In order to upgrade in the APN, Consulting Partners must hold a certain number of AWS Accreditations – you can learn more about the requirements per tier here. Last fall, we released updated English versions of AWS Business and Technical Professional, our web-based accreditation courses for APN Partners. Today we’re making them available in six […]

Optimizing SaaS Tenant Workflows and Costs

Designing robust software as a service (SaaS) solutions often requires developers to find new and creative strategies for optimizing their applications. Pouring all your customers into a shared, multi-tenant environment places an even higher premium on identifying opportunities to remove bottlenecks and improve each customer’s experience. The smallest flaw can have a compounding impact that […]

AWS Professional Services Delivery Best Practices Bootcamp

As we see more and more customers going ‘all in’ on AWS, it’s critically important to us that our APN Partners have the ability to deliver high-quality professional services. Our new AWS Professional Services Delivery Best Practices Bootcamp is designed to help APN Partners develop professional services competencies at their firms. In this intensive three-day […]

AWS Marketplace Announces New AWS Marketplace Metering Service For 3rd Party Sellers

Kamlesh Talreja is the Director of Engineering for AWS Marketplace.  Do you sell on AWS Marketplace? If so, you’re likely familiar with the benefits your customers get from AWS Marketplace, including pay-as-you-go pricing and simple deployment options. AWS Marketplace is our fast growing online store that helps customers discover, buy, and deploy software that runs […]

“Friends Don’t Let Friends Build Data Centers”

Reflections on the two-year anniversary of Infor going all-in with AWS Two short years ago at the AWS 2014 San Francisco Summit, Infor CEO Charles Phillips stated, “friends don’t let friends build data centers’’ and announced that Infor, a leading provider of industry-specific ERP solutions, was taking a cloud-first development approach and going “all-in” with […]

Take Advantage of AWS Self-Paced Labs

AWS is celebrating its 10-year anniversary. And to acknowledge and thank our customers and APN partners, we’ve partnered with qwikLABS to offer the entire catalog of AWS self-paced labs and learning quests at no charge through the end of March. AWS self-paced labs enable you to get hands-on practice working with AWS services in a real […]

Partners in Innovation: Announcing the AWS 2016 City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge

Are you an APN Partner building technology solutions on AWS to help improve citizens’ lives? Today, we announced the call for entries for the AWS 2016 City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge, a global program to recognize local and regional governments and APN Partners that are innovating for the benefit of citizens using the AWS cloud. […]