Tag: APN Consulting Partners

Over two days, Steamhaus conducted an AWS Well-Architected Review on-site with the team who designed, built, and currently manage Elmer at Sperry Rail. Elmer uses machine intelligence to inspect thousands of miles of ultrasound scans collected by Sperry’s inspection vehicles, searching for evidence of cracks in the rail. This partnership allowed quick improvements in efficiency, while ensuring the requirements of running the business day-to-day did not get in the way of improving Elmer.

Many organizations face the challenge of gathering market intelligence on new product and platform announcements made by their partners and competitors—and doing so in a timely fashion. Harnessing these insights quickly can help businesses react to specific industry trends and fuel innovative products and offerings inside their own company.Learn how Accenture helped a customer use AWS to gather critical insights along with key signals and trends from the web using AI and ML techniques.

Atlassian users who run Jira, Confluence, or Bitbucket applications across distributed teams find that, due to slower network connectivity, content sometimes loads much slower for team members in geographically distant regions. A new feature in Atlassian’s Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket Data Center versions allows the use of Amazon CloudFront to improve the user experience and overall performance of applications hosted in other global regions.

Learn how APN Partner Toptal applied a horizontally scalable solution for a customer’s image upload processing. This type of serverless solution can reduce the strain on API servers and eliminate the need for running separate servers to handle spikes without crashing. A serverless computing model with AWS Lambda is a natural fit for utility classes of tasks, such as preparing and sending transactional emails and push notifications.

Introducing Well-Architected Wednesdays! Our recent six-week PartnerCast series focused on what it takes to be an AWS Well-Architected Partner. These on-demand episodes can sharpen your cloud skills and strengthen your company’s AWS offerings. The PartnerCast team and AWS Solutions Architects identified six topics that will help you dive deep into your customer’s solutions using the AWS Well-Architected Framework.

We’ve heard from APN Partners about some of the challenges they face when preparing for the AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP) Program audit, so we developed this list of five recommendations to help your organization prepare. These tips are based on AWS MSP Partner observations and best practices that should drive a more positive application and audit experience. All APN Partners must perform and pass a full audit with our third-party auditing firm in order to be a validated AWS MSP Partner.

Voice data represents a rich and relatively untapped source of information that can help organizations gaining precious insights into their customers and operations. By leveraging a number of AWS services, Deloitte’s speech analytics solution, TrueVoice, can process voice data at scale, apply machine learning models to extract valuable information for this unstructured data, and continuously refine and enrich such models, tailoring them to specific industries and business needs.

To help you sharpen cloud skills and strengthen your AWS-based business offerings, we are excited to introduce AWS Partner Network TV, or APN TV for short. Whether you’re looking for consulting services or strategic technology solutions, you’ll discover APN TV videos that showcase how AWS customers in similar situations have teamed up with APN Partners to drive better business and bigger results. Videos include demos, interviews, success stories, and webinars featuring top APN Partners.

We are pleased to share the latest updates to our AWS Managed Services Provider (MSP) Partner Program requirements in Version 4.1 of the Validation Checklist. This version reflects our most recent program criteria. By maintaining a high bar in this program, MSP Partners realize greater value by achieving elite recognition for their distinguished capabilities, and AWS customers can have increased confidence in working with AWS MSP Partners.

We are excited to highlight 104 APN Partners that received new designations in December for our global AWS Competency, AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP), and AWS Service Delivery programs. These designations span workload, solution, and industry, and help AWS customers identify top APN Partners that can deliver on core business objectives. APN Partners are focused on your success, helping customers take full advantage of the business benefits AWS has to offer.