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Maximize Customer Acquisition, Retention, and Lifetime Value with AWS Advertising and Marketing Technology Competency Partners

We’re excited to announce the AWS Advertising and Marketing Technology Competency to help AWS customers find partners that will develop the future of advertising and marketing by promoting solutions built on AWS—making data interoperability and innovation more effective. Previously called the AWS Digital Customer Experience Competency, the expanded Competency includes new categories to further differentiate partners and help customers find the right solution for their business.

Enhancing AWS Partner Central to Deliver a Simple, Personalized, and Value-Driven Experience

We’re excited to announce self-service enhancements to AWS Partner Central to help you drive efficiencies, use data insights, and reach new customers with AWS Marketplace integration. Key enhancements include a self-guided partner journey with automated tasks, account and product linking across AWS Marketplace and Partner Central, a new co-sell experience with APN Customer Engagements (ACE), and more.

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Introducing the Generative AI Center of Excellence for AWS Partners: The Path to AI Expertise

At AWS, we believe our partners are well-positioned to support specialized customer needs, either through providing consultative support or specialty business applications with integrated generative AI capabilities. This is why we are introducing the Generative AI Center of Excellence (CoE) for AWS Partners. It’s a digital experience open to all partners within the AWS Partner Network (APN). Learn how the CoE delivers optimized learning paths to implement generative AI solutions for customers.

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Introducing the New AWS Partner Initiative Funding Template

We are excited to introduce the Partner Initiative Funding (PIF) template in the AWS Partner Funding Portal (APFP), enabling AWS Partners to easily self-access their agreement and any initiative funds without relying on their AWS partner manager. The template unifies and standardizes the different funding experiences into one template, and provides funding transparency throughout the funding cycle. This improves the overall funding process time for partners by having a configurable workflow.

AWS Partner Experience Transformation: Roadmap

At AWS, we’re at the forefront of an exciting transformation to drive our partners to new heights of productivity and profitability. Whether you want to reach new customers, sell alongside AWS sellers, or accelerate sales through AWS Marketplace, this transformation expands your opportunities every stage of your journey. In this post, we share key enhancements we’re making over the next six months to deepen your expertise and broaden the value across your business models.

Optimize Your Contact Center Experience with Amazon Connect Ready Partners

With the contact center and customer experience industry evolving rapidly, more businesses are seeing the benefits of investing in innovative solutions, like Amazon Connect, to streamline their systems. We’re excited to announce the Amazon Connect Ready specialization to support seamless customer engagement across multiple channels; improve employee productivity through enhanced data collection; and provide analytics, insights, and optimization dashboards.

Accelerate Your Digital Transformation with Amazon ECS Delivery Partners

Enterprises undergoing digital transformation in the cloud are realizing the benefits of running their applications in containers. To help customers streamline containerized workload implementations, we’re excited to announce the Amazon ECS Delivery specialization. Amazon ECS Delivery Partners have technical expertise in assessing, scoping, designing, integrating, deploying, operating, and optimizing container environments using either Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) or AWS Fargate.

Scale Your Software and Services with AWS Marketplace

Customers are increasingly purchasing software and services in AWS Marketplace to take advantage of added efficiencies, cost savings, and flexible payment and terms. As we continue to transform the AWS Partner experience, we’re focused on scaling AWS Marketplace to help you drive greater customer value. In this post, we share key operational and self-service enhancements we’ve made to help you scale your offerings in AWS Marketplace, while lowering your operating costs and accelerating time-to-close.

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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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.