AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog

We are excited to highlight 115 AWS Partners that received new or renewed designations in December for our global AWS Competency, AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP), AWS Service Delivery, and AWS Service Ready programs. These designations span workload, solution, and industry, and help AWS customers identify top AWS Partners that can deliver on core business objectives. AWS Partners are focused on your success, helping customers take full advantage of the business benefits AWS has to offer.

ScyllaDB is a wide-column NoSQL database for data-intensive applications requiring high throughput and low latency. It was invented to take advantage of modern, highly performant cloud servers, including the new Amazon EC2 I4i series servers based on Intel Ice Lake x86 processors, and the Is4gen and Im4gn series which use Arm-based Graviton2 processors. ScyllaDB is fully compatible with Apache Cassandra and Amazon DynamoDB and is AWS Outposts Ready for on-premises deployments.

Learn how to use ShardingSphere-Proxy to build database clusters, covering aspects such as sharding, read/write splitting, and dynamic configuration. Apache ShardingSphere is an ecosystem of open-source distributed database solutions, including JDBC and Proxy products, which can be deployed either independently or in combination. The commercial edition provides additional data security and data sharding features from AWS Partner SphereEx.

Proper entitlement management is a significant security layer for an AWS environment. Ermetic has developed a permissions analysis engine which performs this task automatically, to a fine-grained level of granularity, and for all of the identities in your environment—humans and workloads alike. The engine even takes federated users from identity providers into account as well. Ermetic is an AWS Security Competency Partner and comprehensive identity-centric cloud security platform for easily reducing risk at scale.

As part of our commitment to improving the partner experience, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is excited to announce the launch of AWS Partner Central 2.0—a redesigned partner portal that simplifies and improves your ability to build, market, and sell with AWS. AWS Partner Central 2.0, which begins rolling out on January 5, introduces new site navigation, a modern look and feel, faster load times, improved personalization, and in-app guidance.

Implementing an effective data sharing strategy that satisfies compliance and regulatory requirements has become more complex. Learn how Qlik integrates with Amazon Redshift to simplify data sharing to ensure efficient collaboration and development of business insights that can drive decision-making. Qlik’s Active Intelligence Platform allows for open-ended, curiosity-driven exploration, giving everyone the ability to make real discoveries that lead to outcomes and transformative changes.

Explore how you can leverage Reserved concurrency to define a tiering strategy for multi-tenant software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. There are many benefits when using AWS Lambda functions starting with the serverless model in SaaS that removes undifferentiated heavy lifting by simplifying the architecture and operational footprint. Reserved concurrency is an important feature of AWS Lambda which guarantees the maximum number of instances, running concurrently, for a Lambda specific function.

An influx of technology is opening up new avenues to enrich the traditional classroom experience. As part of the industry’s innovation, digital textbooks, especially for the K-12 classroom, are becoming a more prevalent component of technology-based education. Learn how JBS Solutions rebuilt one of the largest digital textbook publishing platforms using AWS Lambda to optimize performance at scale while providing flexibility along with robust functionality for both the back and front end of the platform.

Cloud-based contact centers that leverage AI for enhancing the customer experience are gaining wide acceptance. TCS RemacX is an AI-powered CX collaboration space that extends Amazon Connect’s out-of-the box capabilities. It provides ways for customers to get insurance quotes, for example, and assists customer with FAQs using Amazon Lex. It also supports proactive customer communication like automated reminders for payments due using Amazon Pinpoint, and video calling using Amazon Chime.

Broadcasters and media organizations are dealing with a perfect storm of market and technology-driven changes with the ongoing move to IP and cloud-based production systems. A new product offering from Atos called BNCS+ for AWS enables traditional broadcasters, small media companies, and non-media companies to rapidly create highly scalable and resilient video channels that can be accessed by global audiences using the BNCS+ interface, without having to build deep AWS Cloud or DevOps expertise.