AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog

By Barbara Kessler and Thomas Robinson In our last post about the evolution of managed services, we wrote about how the landscape is evolving for managed service providers (MSPs) who are working with customers in hyperscale cloud environments. In our opinion, established MSPs can no longer focus exclusively on running and operating their customers’ environments […]

Last year, we hosted a wealth of content from our Partner SAs (read all about our Partner SA guest posts), including a couple of posts recapping innovative ISV solutions on AWS. This year our SAs are back at it, and we’re going to kick off 2017 with Ian Scofield and Mike Kalberer, two Partner SAs […]

We are just over a week away from our very first AWS Partner Summit – Canada. We’re excited to connect with APN Partners from across Canada to discuss AWS, the APN, and the Canadian Cloud market! This free event is open exclusively to APN members and is geared at business, sales and pre-sales leaders building software solutions […]

This is a guest blog from Tony Bolander, Manager, Global Strategic Alliances, Splunk  AWS and Splunk have developed a powerful relationship through the AWS Partner Network (APN) over the past couple years, buoyed by shared customer focus and strategic alignment across executive leadership, engineering, and marketing teams. As I reflect on our work together, it […]

This is a guest post from Tim Mattison. Tim is a Partner SA at AWS who focuses on the IoT segment.  In a broad sense, IoT is the convergence of embedded systems, communications technology, and cloud. As processing, communication technology and storage costs continue to drop, we find the industry is realizing the value of […]

This is a guest post from David Aiken. David is a Partner SA who focuses on AWS Marketplace.   In my first post following the launch of AWS Marketplace SaaS Subscriptions, I provided a quick overview to describe the concepts, integration points, and how to get started with the AWS Marketplace SaaS Subscription feature. In this post, […]

We launched the AWS Migration Competency in June 2016 with one simple goal in mind: to help customers connect with AWS Partners who’ve proven their expertise helping customers of all sizes successfully migrate to AWS. The principle of simplicity has driven the launch of all of our Competencies. Our mission is to make it as […]

In 2016, we hosted 38 guest posts from AWS Partner Solutions Architects (SAs), who work very closely with both Consulting and Technology Partners as they build solutions on AWS. As we kick off 2017, I want to take a look back at all of the fantastic content created by our SAs. A few key themes emerged […]

What a year it’s been! The goal of the APN Blog was to bring you information on all of the latest news from the APN throughout the year, while also delivering content on a number of technical topics developed by both AWS and APN Partners. Before we wrap up 2016, we want to take a moment and tell you […]

This is a guest post from Peter Williams. Peter is a Partner Solutions Architect (SA), and he focuses on the Financial Services segment.  This year’s AWS re:Invent conference keynotes reminded us that we are at a seminal moment in the history of technological innovation. Businesses are transforming their operating model to take advantage of disruptive […]