AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog

In celebration of the 10-year anniversary of the AWS Partner Network (APN), we are highlighting some of our AWS Partners who have grown with us over the past decade. F5 is an industry leader in cloud security and application services with 25+ years of experience helping businesses accelerate and simplify cloud migration. We spoke with Dave Morrissey, AWS Global Alliance Director at F5, to talk about how they worked closely with AWS teams to launch the company’s first SaaS offering, and F5’s plans for the future.

Data mesh is emerging as a paradigm for generating data-driven value and is gaining real-world adoption within industries like financial services and automotive. Learn about the user journeys of two types of data consumers in a mesh platform: business intelligence and data scientists. Explore how BI and AI/ML overlap within a set of data domains, and how a platform architecture further enables the desired experiences within a data mesh.

For Crayon, an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner, the idea of a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) started from its vision and strategy to accelerate cloud adoption for customers—from cloud strategy, migration, and modernization to managed operations. Learn how a CCoE plays a strategic role when it comes to centralizing the knowledge in order to make solutions available in a quick and repeatable way to different departments in the organization.

AWS Transfer Family provides SFTP, FTPS, and/or FTP access to Amazon S3 or Amazon Amazon EFS. It does that by providing a secure, highly available, and scalable server endpoint. You pay for the time this endpoint is enabled, and for data transfer (upload and download). Learn how this makes a multi-tenant setup where an endpoint is shared between different users (or applications), a more cost-efficient solution than having dedicated endpoints.

The AWS Competency program validates and promotes AWS Partners with demonstrated technical expertise and proven customer success. Attaining a Competency helps partners market and differentiate their business to customers by showcasing their capabilities in specialized areas. To get there, it’s important AWS Partners have a list of best practices and recommendations. Learn how partners can achieve and make the most out of the AWS Competency program through four key steps.

Cisco Meraki customers commonly question how they can extend their SD-WAN environment into an existing Amazon Web Services (AWS) footprint. They desire high availability and a way to automate reachability from their cloud resources down to their local branches. This post explores how Cisco Meraki customers can use an AWS Quick Start to help automate the highly available deployment of Meraki vMXs in multiple AWS Regions along with route propagation.

Deploying machine learning (ML) models as a packaged container with hardware-optimized acceleration, without compromising accuracy and while being financially feasible, can be challenging. As machine learning models become the brains of modern applications, developers need a simpler way to deploy trained ML models to live endpoints for inference. This post explores how a ML engineer can take a trained model, optimize and containerize the model using OctoML CLI, and deploy it to Amazon EKS.

We are excited to highlight 77 AWS Partners that received new designations in June 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.

Industry analyst firm Gartner has published its annual report evaluating cloud AI developer services, the 2022 Magic Quadrant for Cloud AI Developer Services (CAIDS). AWS was once again named a Leader and placed highest among 13 recognized vendors for “Ability to Execute.” Choosing the right provider for cloud AI developer services is critically important right now. AWS Partners can leverage this report with their customers to showcase the value that AWS will bring to them.

Data quality is traditionally inconsistent and slow across teams and functions. Custom solutions are purpose-built, of varying quality, and rarely maintained. Elula developed a proprietary Data Quality Checker (DQC) powered by AWS Glue, and an Automated Data Assessment (ADA) user interface to accelerate the identification and prioritization of issues. Elula is an AWS Partner and leading provider of artificial intelligence (AI) software to the financial services sector.