AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog

Retailers are adopting new technologies like Amazon’s Just Walk Out to provide a frictionless shopping experience. Cognizant’s Customer Concierge Solution integrates Just Walk Out with existing POS systems, allowing grab-and-go shopping. This packaged, API-based solution on AWS enables quick rollout, cost optimization, scalability, and security. It gives retailers the flexibility to repurpose labor while lowering costs and time to deploy advanced shopping technology.

AWS PrivateLink allows customers to securely connect cloud and on-premises data sources to Alation’s data catalog without exposing traffic to the public internet. This integration provides private connectivity between the customer’s VPC and Alation Cloud Service and simplifies network architecture. Using PrivateLink with Alation enables organizations to build a catalog of metadata from selected data assets while maintaining compliance with security and regulatory requirements.

AWS Partner Neurons Lab provides a step-by-step guide to deploy containerized applications on AWS using GitHub Actions, AWS CDK, and other key services. Neurons Lab, with expertise across data science, cloud, and business strategy, solves complex AI challenges and accelerates migration journeys for organizations seeking to modernize through AI integration on AWS. By leveraging AWS CDK constructs to define infrastructure as code, this reusable solution streamlines infrastructure setup and deployments.

The AWS SaaS Factory team delves into ITV’s innovative strides in the media and entertainment industry—particularly its creation of Planet V, an autonomous platform facilitating the reservation of TV ad campaigns on ITVX, a network of streaming channels. After two years of production, Planet V underwent a rearchitecting process aimed at enhancing customer experience and ensuring a future-proof solution. ITV enlisted AWS Partner The Scale Factory to collaboratively design, build, and fortify the platform’s infrastructure.

AWS provides discounted pricing through Reserved Instances and Savings Plans in return for usage commitments. Apptio Cloudability helps organizations maximize these commitments by analyzing AWS cost data to identify savings opportunities. Cloudability also offers automation to optimize commitments continuously, achieving higher savings than manual management allows. This frees up financial operations resources to focus on other cloud cost optimization initiatives.

From a wide range of AWS Partner success stories to new partner programs launched at AWS re:Invent, here’s a look at the most popular APN blog posts and case studies we shared in 2023. The AWS Partner Network (APN) is a global community that leverages AWS technologies, programs, expertise, and tools to build solutions and provide services for customers. Together, partners and AWS provide innovative solutions, solve technical challenges, win deals, and deliver greater customer value.

Belden Inc. collaborated with AWS and Matterport to create a digital twin at its Richmond manufacturing facility. By capturing the plant environment with Matterport’s 3D camera and integrating sensor data through AWS IoT Core, they built a virtual representation of the assembly line. The digital twin enables Belden to gain insights, optimize operations, and improve asset performance in areas like employee training and preventative maintenance.

SAP customers are integrating non-SAP applications and machine learning models to improve business strategies. Solutions like Syntax CxLink and Amazon Forecast can connect SAP systems to AWS services to provide insights for supply-demand planning, sales, and automation requirements. This post shows how Syntax CxLink transfers SAP data like sales orders and inventory transactions to Amazon Forecast, which uses algorithms to create highly accurate demand forecasts.

Kyndryl built an AI solution on AWS to detect pores in welding using acoustic data and a custom algorithm with voltage data. It’s an end-to-end solution that collects data from welding machines, processes it at the edge to detect pores, and streams it to the AWS cloud for historical analysis. Kyndryl’s pore detection solution on AWS increases quality and optimizes manufacturing, improving defect detection accuracy while increasing efficiency and reducing rework costs and customer churn.

Kubernetes security is often approached in a fragmented way, separating build time, runtime, and infrastructure security. An interconnected security approach is essential, acknowledging relationships between build, runtime, and infrastructure. Cloudanix enables this through end-to-end integration, from build time image scanning to runtime threat monitoring, strengthening security posture by reducing attack surface, enhancing compliance, and empowering swift response.