AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog

We’re excited to announce the AWS Manufacturing and Industrial Competency, which helps customers advance their time to results, optimize operations, seek new revenue streams, and/or generate sustainable business operations, while reducing their carbon footprint. Previously the AWS Industrial Software Competency, the expanded AWS Manufacturing and Industrial Competency includes new use case categories to further differentiate partners and help customers and sellers find the right solution for their business needs.

We’re excited to announce the AWS Media & Entertainment Competency, which helps customers accelerate their camera to screen cloud journey through the expertise of AWS Partners. AWS M&E Competency Partners have expertise with customers of all sizes—driving growth in areas like: broadcast, content production, direct to consumer, media supply chain and archive, and data science & analytics for media.

Modernizing applications from on-premises containers to AWS can be a time-consuming task for application development and cloud infrastructure teams. Stateless application modernization can be an especially tedious and error-prone process. Learn how cloud architects and DevOps engineers are turning to Matilda Cloud to help modernize stateless apps. Matilda Cloud’s automated tools accelerate the modernization process with powerful discovery and automated infrastructure as code tools.

Construction companies sometimes utilize buildings’ own elevators during the construction phase, but during this time operating conditions are very different from normal elevator use. According to KONE’s studies, the first-year call-out rate of an elevator which has been used during construction time can be twice as high compared to an elevator which has not been used in construction. Learn how KONE’s construction time use solutions leverage AWS to support customers during the construction phase of any project.

VMware Cloud on AWS helps customers including enterprises, government entities, and startups migrate to the cloud 46% faster on average and at a 43% lower cost as compared to other solutions. AWS Partners that start a VMware Cloud on AWS practice can see anywhere from a 10-15% revenue lift in their overall services revenue. Learn how partners can grow their VMware Cloud on AWS practice through professional and managed services, modernization, AWS funding, and by expanding their customer base.

Industrial cloud service platforms like AWS IoT SiteWise, which can be used to acquire and store the data needed to compute critical manufacturing metrics, are accelerating the implementation of overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) applications. Explore the tasks required to stand up an instance of Edge2Web Factory Insights on AWS IoT SiteWise. Edge2Web is an AWS Partner and SaaS company whose products are available via AWS Marketplace.

To ensure cloud infrastructure is compliant with organizational policies and regulatory requirements, many platform engineering teams are embedding the policy-as-code practice into their DevSecOps toolchain. Learn how to use Pulumi and its CrossGuard policy-as-code feature to ensure your infrastructure is compliant before it’s ever provisioned in AWS. We’ll also demonstrate how to define custom policies in Python, and how to create a reusable package of policies by storing them in AWS CodeArtifact.

Salesforce Service Cloud Voice (SCV) natively integrates the Amazon Connect contact center platform into Salesforce’s CRM software. This delivers a new contact center solution that brings together voice conversations, digital channels, and CRM data. Learn about the pre-built integrations, deployment options, and architectural mapping patterns pertaining to SCV, and see an example of inbound customer journey with data flow and API calling sequence.

Today’s rapidly changing market conditions require organizations to scale IT operations swiftly and securely, while keeping costs under control. But setting up, running, and optimizing cloud infrastructure can be time-consuming and challenging. We’re excited to announce the AWS Cloud Operations Competency, to help customers adopt an integrated approach for cloud operations on AWS and beyond.

Many organizations are migrating applications to the cloud to overcome technology obsolescence, vendor lock-in, expensive or limited licensing policies, and skill shortages, among other challenges. Learn how HCLTech’s Automated Technology Modernization Accelerator (ATMA) and ADvantage Cloud can help modernize 4GL-based applications to cloud-native architecture, enabling deployment on AWS environments and significantly reducing costs of modernization and time to market.