AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog
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How AWS Partners Can Achieve Sustainability Goals with a Cloud Center of Excellence
Sustainability is a strategic priority for organizations in the global transition to net-zero emissions. Many AWS Partners have chosen to establish a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) to achieve their decarbonization goals. Learn how to incorporate sustainability into your organization with a CCoE and how AWS services can help. With these efforts in place, your business can consider joining the 460 signatories who have signed The Climate Pledge and are working towards carbon neutrality by 2040.
SparkLearn’s AI-Powered Workplace Learning SaaS Solution, Supported by AWS SaaS Factory
Dive into SparkLearn’s path towards establishing a SaaS business with insights from Chad Udell, Co-CEO at SparkLearn. Notable points of discussion with the AWS SaaS Factory team revolved around the significance of adopting a product-led growth strategy and harnessing cloud services to channel resources towards enhancing the end-user experience rather than infrastructure. AWS SaaS Factory helps organizations looking to build new products or optimize existing SaaS solutions on AWS.
Meet Our New AWS Ambassadors from Q4 2023 and Explore Latest Activities
The AWS Ambassador Program is a vibrant worldwide community of technical experts, known as AWS Ambassadors, who are prominent leaders and passionate about sharing their AWS technical expertise. They author blogs and whitepapers, create and deliver public presentations, and contribute to open source projects. Our Ambassadors evangelize AWS via social media and facilitate peer-to-peer learning by presenting at conferences, leading workshops, and hosting user group events.
Announcing Enhanced Capabilities for AWS Partner-Led Support
Customers implementing sophisticated solutions based on AWS technologies often seek out qualified partners who bring their industry expertise to the table and help accelerate a return on investment (ROI) that achieves business outcomes faster. Partner-Led Support offers AWS Partners the opportunity to expand their sources of recurring revenue by complementing and supplementing AWS capabilities in delivering technical support to customers.
How nClouds Helped OperationsRx Build and Deploy a SaaS Solution on AWS
Discover how a collaboration with AWS SaaS Factory revolutionized nClouds’ approach to SaaS and empowered its team to amplify its capabilities. Leveraging SaaS Factory’s technical knowledge equipped nClouds with the assurance and actionable insights needed to conquer the intricacies of the SaaS cloud landscape. For customers like OperationsRx, aligning with a SaaS Competency Partner like nClouds meant tapping into a reservoir of expertise, strengthened by years of experience from industry-leading experts.
Drive Innovation and Growth for SMBs with AWS Small and Medium Business Competency Partners
In today’s fast-paced world, small and medium businesses (SMBs) are leveraging the power of the cloud to drive innovation, reach new customers, develop new revenue streams, and increase productivity. To support this journey, the AWS Small and Medium Business Competency helps customers find partner solutions that support the diverse and evolving needs of their business. SMB Competency Partners offer a wide range of solutions, including migration and modernization, security, data storage, AI/ML, and more.
Say Hello to 168 AWS Specialization Partners Added or Renewed in December
We are excited to highlight 168 AWS Partners that received new or renewed specializations in December for our global AWS Competency, AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP), AWS Service Delivery, and AWS Service Ready programs. These designations span workload, solution, and industry, and help AWS customers identify top AWS Partners that can deliver on core business objectives. AWS Partners are focused on your success, helping customers take full advantage of the business benefits AWS has to offer.
Unlocking Efficiency: Best Practices for AWS Partners Applying for an AWS Competency
To grow with AWS, partners can pursue Competency designations which validate an organization’s expertise through rigorous assessment by AWS experts. By meeting requirements around projects, certifications, and capabilities, partners can demonstrate their proficiency and earn an AWS specialization badge in specific industries, use cases, or workloads. Attaining an AWS Competency distinguishes partners, but the preparation process also transforms practices.
Updated Validation Checklists for AWS Specialization Programs
As we continue to transform the AWS Partner experience, we’re excited to share updates to the Validation Checklists (VCL) for AWS Specialization Programs (AWS Competency, Managed Service Provider, Service Delivery, and Service Ready). Effective January 1, 2024, the updates drive efficiencies during onboarding, allowing partners to achieve an AWS Specialization faster and making it easier to utilize benefits.
How The Scale Factory Overhauled ITV’s Video on Demand Ad Platform with SaaS on AWS
The AWS SaaS Factory team delves into ITV’s innovative strides in the media and entertainment industry—particularly its creation of Planet V, an autonomous platform facilitating the reservation of TV ad campaigns on ITVX, a network of streaming channels. After two years of production, Planet V underwent a rearchitecting process aimed at enhancing customer experience and ensuring a future-proof solution. ITV enlisted AWS Partner The Scale Factory to collaboratively design, build, and fortify the platform’s infrastructure.