Tag: APN Programs

To help break down barriers and develop your cloud skills, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has created several methods to guide you on the correct learning journey, including learning plans, courses with different training styles, and a curated list of our most popular courses amongst AWS Partners. In this post, explore what training resonates with the thousands of partners already learning with AWS Partner Training and Certification.

The AWS SaaS Factory team has supported many AWS Partners in implementing Partner-Led Growth (PLG) tactics as part of their efforts to reduce customer acquisition cost, widen their funnel, and expand globally. If you’re thinking your SaaS business is not growing fast enough, PLG may be the key to unlock your product’s potential. Everyone from boards, investors, founders, C-suite executives, and even individual team members can benefit from understanding this game-changing strategy.

We are excited to highlight 176 AWS Partners that received new or renewed designations in May 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.

Over the years working with AWS Partners, we have learned that having a focused AWS practice helps partners be more successful in supporting our evolving mutual customer base. Learn how a dedicated AWS practice can be essential in getting the most out of your AWS Partner Network (APN) involvement, especially if your organization is on the Services Path. We’ll describe the five stages of a successful partner practice and offer insights into how to optimize your APN resources and benefits.

As we transform the partner experience, we’re introducing the AWS Partner Analytics Dashboard. Accessible through AWS Partner Central, the dashboard provides partners with a 360-degree view of their AWS business, including opportunity pipeline, funding benefits, and pipeline. The dashboard provides transparency to the data needed to have high level strategic conversations, both internally and with AWS teams. This post explores the benefits, metrics, and high-level features of the Partner Analytics Dashboard.

With more than 100,000 AWS Partners across the globe, how do you find the right partner for the right job? AWS Specializations help customers find a short list of trusted cloud partners with diverse expertise. Learn about the four programs that provide technical validation based on AWS services, workloads, use cases, industries, and managed services: Service Delivery, Service Ready, Competency, and Managed Service Provider (MSP).

The AWS Partner community is energized about the potential of generative AI, and we recognize there are unique considerations for bringing these applications into production for commercial use cases. Ruba Borno, VP, WW Channels & Alliances at AWS, shares why AWS Partners are an integral part in ensuring customers realize the full value of generative AI offerings. Working together, AWS and partners will be guiding the development of business innovations and solutions for customers of all sizes and industries.

We are excited to highlight 154 AWS Partners that received new or renewed specializations in April for our global AWS Competency, AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP), AWS Service Delivery, and AWS Service Ready programs. These specializations 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.

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.

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.