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Announcing the Regional 2023 AWS Partner Award Winners in ASEAN

We’re proud to announce and acknowledge the ASEAN AWS Partners of 2023 that are helping customers accelerate innovation, develop industry-focused solutions, and build resilience amidst the ever-changing economic climate. As ASEAN businesses continue to navigate economic headwinds, AWS Partners play a pivotal role as strategic advisors and technology experts in helping customers innovate, reduce costs, and build industry-focused solutions on AWS.

Introducing the Journey to SaaS Guide to Help You Build, Launch, and Operate SaaS Solutions on AWS

Whether you’re taking the first steps toward planning your software-as-a-service (SaaS) journey, or about to launch your first product, the new Journey to SaaS guide is designed to help drive your efforts to build, migrate, secure, and optimize SaaS solutions on AWS. Use this roadmap to identify which stage you’re in and review the corresponding actions, motivations, questions, pain points, and AWS SaaS Factory resources.

Protect Your Web Applications with AWS WAF Ready Partners

As organizations continue to build and migrate more of their applications in the cloud, ensuring websites and applications are protected from external threats has become a top concern for businesses of all shapes and sizes. We’re excited to announce the AWS WAF Ready specialization to help customers deploy and maintain their application layer security solution with AWS WAF Ready Partner software products.

Accelerate Your Edge to Cloud Transformation with AWS Manufacturing and Industrial Competency Partners

We’re excited to announce the AWS Manufacturing and Industrial Competency, which helps customers advance their time to results, optimize operations, seek new revenue streams, and/or generate sustainable business operations, while reducing their carbon footprint. Previously the AWS Industrial Software Competency, the expanded AWS Manufacturing and Industrial Competency includes new use case categories to further differentiate partners and help customers and sellers find the right solution for their business needs.

Accelerate Your Camera to Screen Cloud Journey with AWS Media & Entertainment Competency Partners

We’re excited to announce the AWS Media & Entertainment Competency, which helps customers accelerate their camera to screen cloud journey through the expertise of AWS Partners. AWS M&E Competency Partners have expertise with customers of all sizes—driving growth in areas like: broadcast, content production, direct to consumer, media supply chain and archive, and data science & analytics for media.

Streamline Your End-to-End Cloud Operations with AWS Cloud Operations Competency Partners

Today’s rapidly changing market conditions require organizations to scale IT operations swiftly and securely, while keeping costs under control. But setting up, running, and optimizing cloud infrastructure can be time-consuming and challenging. We’re excited to announce the AWS Cloud Operations Competency, to help customers adopt an integrated approach for cloud operations on AWS and beyond.

AWS Transforms the Partner Experience to Drive Greater Customer Value and Partner Profitability

We’re excited to share a preview of the enhancements we’re making to partner programs and tools to deliver greater customer value and partner profitability—including making it easier to leverage programs by aligning them to your business models and scaling AWS Marketplace to expand your customer reach and accelerate sales. The AWS Partner experience transformation is aimed towards helping you deliver different levels and types of value to customers—to win more, win bigger, and win faster.

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AWS Foundational Technical Review Expands to Include Service Offerings

We’re excited to introduce the AWS Foundational Technical Review (FTR) for Service Offerings to help partners adopt AWS security and technical best practices, increase discoverability, and accelerate their partner journey. The FTR for Service Offerings validates a partner service offering—highlighting technical and customer engagement capabilities, and increasing visibility with customers and AWS teams.

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Accelerate Joint Opportunity and Lead Sharing: Introducing AWS Partner CRM Connector

We’re excited to introduce the AWS Partner CRM Connector for Salesforce to help AWS Partners share opportunities and receive referrals from Amazon Web Services (AWS) within their Salesforce CRM. The AWS Partner CRM Connector eliminates the need to write custom code or update information in separate platforms—saving partners hours in managing their sales pipeline. Benefits include a unified experience, no additional costs, and no custom code required.

Redefining the Partner Digital Experience with AWS Partner Central 2.0

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.