AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog

Legacy technologies such as COBOL, IDMS, Natural, Adabas, Assembler, IMS, and EGL, as well as their rapidly vanishing expertise, are becoming the number one burden for many mainframe customers. Learn how Astadia can help customers quickly and safely move entire mainframe applications to AWS. Astadia works with clients to modernize their IT investments to accelerate time to value, increase productivity, decrease risk, and optimize costs.

Data is growing in all aspects of our world; every vertical and technical domain is being pushed to the limit by growing data—geospatial is no exception. Learn about Esri’s ArcGIS GeoAnalytics Engine on Amazon EMR and how its geospatial capabilities can complement your current analytics workflows. GeoAnalytics seamlessly integrates with Amazon EMR and can be deployed with an Esri-provided bootstrap script at EMR cluster creation.

DataMasque is an AWS Partner that removes sensitive data from the databases and replaces it with realistic and functional masked values that enable effective development, testing, and analytics. This empowers AWS customers to do secure deployments in testing or non-production environments while mitigating the data breach security risks and allowing relevant teams to focus on development and testing of their applications without hinderance.

AWS partners have asked us to do more to help them build analytics-driven applications, so we are excited to announce the launch of the ‘Powered by Amazon Redshift’ program. This program enables ISVs to build their applications using Amazon Redshift—our fully-managed cloud data warehouse service—and deliver fast, easy, and secure analytics at any scale available within their applications. With Amazon Redshift powering applications, ISVs can drive up to 3X price performance compared to any other cloud data warehouse.

This year marks the 10-year anniversary of the AWS Partner Network (APN). To celebrate this important milestone, we’re launching a series of partner transformation stories—“10 Years of Success”—highlighting some of our AWS Partners who have been “all in” and grown with us over the past decade. Up first in our Q&A-style series is Cloudsoft, an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner that helps businesses securely migrate, run, and evolve applications in the cloud.

Learn how to set up an Amazon EC2 Mac instance with a hardened image provided by the Center for Internet Security (CIS). This will help you to mitigate common threats like malware, denial of service, insufficient authorization, and overlapping trust boundary threats. CIS is an AWS Partner and community-driven nonprofit that aims to make the connected world a safer place for people, businesses, and governments.

As part of its SaaS platform, Druva runs containerized applications with microservices architecture using Auto Scaling groups and Amazon Amazon ECS. Explore the cost optimization journey of Druva using Spot instances with Auto Scaling groups, challenges faced by them during this journey, and how attribute-based instance type selection (ABS) came to the rescue in addressing those challenges in optimizing costs.

To ensure the safety of travelers and give them renewed confidence in flying, the air travel industry has introduced processes to obtain and validate COVID-19 vaccination information before journey commencement at the origin airport. In this post, we discuss how the WNS Document Verification Solution leverages Amazon Web Services (AWS) to capture auditor telemetry for enabling increased auditor productivity.

AWS is excited to announce that 85 new, additional countries are now approved for the Commercial Channel Programs which consists of the AWS Solution Provider Program and AWS Distribution Program. This announcement means AWS Partners located in these countries are now allowed into our reseller programs, which greatly accelerates AWS’s ability to expand into these regions by several years. Authorized AWS Distributors already have coverage in 60 of the 85 newly-authorized countries.

LoRaWAN is a leading protocol utilizing Semtech’s LoRa long-range communications technology for LPWAN in battery-operated, remote monitoring, and control applications. AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN offers a fully-managed LoRaWAN network server and delivers highly scalable, reliable services for a wide variety of use cases. Learn the core elements in an asset tracking application and how AWS and Semtech help lower the barrier for developers looking to deploy solutions.