Tag: AWS Services Partners

In February and March we hosted two workshops for APN Partners focused on helping partners build skills in NoSQL and IoT on AWS. These workshops were hosted in Seattle and Boston, respectively, and are intended to provide our top APN Consulting Partners with the opportunity to dive deep with a number of AWS services. “These workshops are […]

Editor’s note – our team had great conversations with a number of companies yesterday at the AWS Chicago Summit who were interested in learning more about becoming a member of the AWS partner ecosystem, and the journey of our top partners. Today, we want to share with you the perspective of Dorothy Copeland, Director of Global […]

We continuously enhance our technical courses to stay current with the pace of AWS platform updates and incorporate student feedback.  We have made substantial updates to our two most popular foundational training courses, AWS Technical Essentials and Architecting on AWS, to better provide you with actionable knowledge to get started creating solutions with AWS and […]

In late February, Premier APN Consulting Partner Capgemini announced the launch of Capgemini Cloud Choice with Amazon Web Services (AWS), an expanded cloud services collaboration between our two companies. Cloud Choice with AWS is intended to help enterprise customers make the right business decisions as they optimize workload migrations and deployments on AWS. Today, we’d […]

Editor’s note: This is the first of a popular two-part series by Nick Matthews. Read Part 2 >> By Nick Matthews, Partner Solutions Architect, CCIE #23560 I relate better to networking when people use words and phrases I know, such as “router on a stick,” “MPLS WAN,” and “VRF,” and then show me a packet […]

In order to upgrade in the APN, Consulting Partners must hold a certain number of AWS Accreditations – you can learn more about the requirements per tier here. Last fall, we released updated English versions of AWS Business and Technical Professional, our web-based accreditation courses for APN Partners. Today we’re making them available in six […]

As we see more and more customers going ‘all in’ on AWS, it’s critically important to us that our APN Partners have the ability to deliver high-quality professional services. Our new AWS Professional Services Delivery Best Practices Bootcamp is designed to help APN Partners develop professional services competencies at their firms. In this intensive three-day […]

Are you an APN Partner building technology solutions on AWS to help improve citizens’ lives? Today, we announced the call for entries for the AWS 2016 City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge, a global program to recognize local and regional governments and APN Partners that are innovating for the benefit of citizens using the AWS cloud. […]

As part of his Enterprise Cloud Journey series, Stephen Orban, Head of Enterprise Strategy at AWS, published a piece today on the AWS Enterprise Blog about how managed services have evolved in the cloud. We’ve spoken at length on the APN Blog about the importance of understanding how managed services are different in the cloud, and what […]

Since the launch of the official AWS Managed Service Program in 2014, more than 50 APN Partners across the world have successfully completed the third-party validation audit established by the MSP team. More and more firms are looking for guidance on what it takes to pass the audit, and become an AWS MSP. Along with the MSP […]