AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog

We’re excited to announce the AWS Cyber Insurance Competency, which makes it easy for customers—particularly Small and Medium Businesses—to find affordable policies from insurers that integrate their security posture assessment through a new, simplified customer experience with AWS Security Hub. AWS Cyber Insurance Competency Partners worked with AWS to digitally transform their assessment and onboarding process, which rewards customers that present a security posture following AWS best practices.

We’re excited to announce the AWS Advertising and Marketing Technology Competency to help AWS customers find partners that will develop the future of advertising and marketing by promoting solutions built on AWS—making data interoperability and innovation more effective. Previously called the AWS Digital Customer Experience Competency, the expanded Competency includes new categories to further differentiate partners and help customers find the right solution for their business.

Running containerized workloads on Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Anywhere allows customers to use consistent tooling for security, observability, cost management, resilience, and operational excellence for their on-premises, edge, and cloud based containerized workloads. We’re excited to announce the Amazon EKS Ready specialization, which recognizes AWS Partners who have demonstrated technical proficiency to architect, run, and operate containerized workloads on top of Amazon EKS and EKS Anywhere.

Each year, we honor members of the AWS Partner Network (APN) from around the globe that play key roles in helping customers drive innovation and build solutions on AWS. Announced during a Partner Awards Gala at AWS re:Invent, the 2023 Geo and Global AWS Partner Awards recognize a wide range of partners whose business models have embraced specialization, innovation, and cooperation over the past year. Please join us in congratulating these AWS Partners for their continued success!

Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle provides all the management benefits of Amazon RDS, as well as the ability to customize the database. While RDS makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale relational databases within AWS, however, legacy applications like Oracle E-Business Suite (E-BS) require customization of database environments not supported by RDS. Learn about Navisite’s implementation of Oracle E-BS with Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle, along with advice for setup and management.

The rise of IoT has brought a proliferation of connected devices, with more convenience and efficiency for enterprise and end users. Microcontrollers are pivotal to deploying and running AI at the edge, and AWs is collaborating with STMicroelectronics, a leading microcontroller manufacturer, and LACROIX, a leader in smart city solutions, to simplify Edge AI adoption. We’ll highlight the critical role of each partner in making edge computing commercially viable across use cases and industries.

Sports organizations possess a vast amount of data about fans which can be used to generate actionable insights. The ability to send personalized marketing to fans increases satisfaction and loyalty while enabling the team to cross-sell and drive revenue. Learn how Slalom‘s fan engagement data platform accelerator ingests and presents fan data in a centralized layer and empowers organizations to focus on segmentation and insight. The platform is based upon Slalom’s experience with a Premier League football club.

One of the most rigorous activities in the aviation industry is the aircraft’s operational maintenance. It’s a complex analytical task that’s often performed manually. Learn how Capgemini developed a solution called Lifecycle Optimization for Aerospace which aims to accelerate adoption of circular economy practices within the aviation industry. Built on AWS, it analyzes parts documentation and inspection processes, allowing optimization of its lifecycle by turning unstructured usage data into digital assets.

Dynamically adjusting infrastructure capacity based on usage fluctuations allows you to gain operational and cost benefits. Learn how Zesty Disk helps achieve greater cost efficiency and consistent performance when managing Amazon EBS volumes, and how to optimize storage at run time without adding complexity or being exposed to data on the disk. Zesty Disk’s auto-scaling technology eliminates the need for manual adjustments, streamlining operations and reducing the cognitive load for developers.

Serverless and event-driven architecture enables organization to reduce time to market with faster development, build scalable solutions, optimize IT infrastructure costs, and reduce outages and deliver a highly secure solution. Learn how a legacy application can be modernized using several AWS services to reduce costs, increase reliability and security, and provide agility and faster time to market.