AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog

Editor’s note: This is the second of a popular two-part series by Nick Matthews. Read Part 1 >> By Nick Matthews, Partner Solutions Architect, CCIE #23560 In the previous post on Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), we covered the basic anatomy of a VPC and the different ways to connect a VPC to the outside world. […]

In February and March we hosted two workshops for APN Partners focused on helping partners build skills in NoSQL and IoT on AWS. These workshops were hosted in Seattle and Boston, respectively, and are intended to provide our top APN Consulting Partners with the opportunity to dive deep with a number of AWS services. “These workshops are […]

Editor’s note – our team had great conversations with a number of companies yesterday at the AWS Chicago Summit who were interested in learning more about becoming a member of the AWS partner ecosystem, and the journey of our top partners. Today, we want to share with you the perspective of Dorothy Copeland, Director of Global […]

Mick is CEO of 47Lining, an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner in the AWS Partner Network (APN) with the Big Data Competency designation. He holds an AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification. Amazon Machine Learning is a service that provides predictive capabilities, the results of which can be incorporated into a wide variety of downstream applications and […]

The following is a guest post from Cameron Stokes, Solutions Engineer at AWS DevOps Competency Partner HashiCorp.  AWS CodeDeploy automates code deployments to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and on-premises instances, allowing developers to customize deployment steps as needed per their application requirements. HashiCorp Consul is an open-source tool providing service discovery and orchestration […]

One of the biggest benefits coming from our diverse global APN ecosystem is the variety of solutions developed by both Technology and Consulting partners that complement one another. And we often hear of opportunities that APN partners have to work together to solve business needs. Today, we’d like to highlight upcoming webinars from three Advanced APN Technology partners, CloudCheckr, CloudHealth, and […]

We’ve talked a lot recently about what it means to be a next-generation Managed Service Provider (MSP). Turns out, this is a hot topic across our ecosystem as well. Today, we want to highlight a recent eBook published by Advanced APN Technology Partner CloudMGR. With offices in Australia and San Francisco, CloudMGR connects all of a […]

We continuously enhance our technical courses to stay current with the pace of AWS platform updates and incorporate student feedback.  We have made substantial updates to our two most popular foundational training courses, AWS Technical Essentials and Architecting on AWS, to better provide you with actionable knowledge to get started creating solutions with AWS and […]

In late February, Premier APN Consulting Partner Capgemini announced the launch of Capgemini Cloud Choice with Amazon Web Services (AWS), an expanded cloud services collaboration between our two companies. Cloud Choice with AWS is intended to help enterprise customers make the right business decisions as they optimize workload migrations and deployments on AWS. Today, we’d […]

If you’re struggling with cleaning up terminated instances registered with third-party services, you can use a combination of several AWS services to help out. A common example is dealing with the remnants of terminated instances from Auto Scaling groups.  Throughout this post, I’ll talk about how you can use AWS Lambda and Amazon CloudWatch Events […]