Tag: Partners with AWS Qualified Offerings

Many customers are focused on building cost-optimized solutions as they expand on AWS to grow their success. In recognizing that every customer can be in a different phase of their cloud adoption, it’s important to understand the following use cases: expanding from on-premises data centers to AWS; shifting away from on-premises to AWS; and starting out on AWS to serve users globally. This post explores how Citrix ADC can help customers in each use case.

Baffle Data Protection Services (DPS) provides a data-centric protection layer allowing customers to tokenize, encrypt, and mask data in Amazon RDS at the column or row level, without any application code modifications while supporting a BYOK or HYOK model. Review the architecture for Baffle DPS, and walk through how to launch and test Baffle DPS from an AWS CloudFormation template with Amazon RDS databases to encrypt data at the column level.

From SaaS to ISVs, here’s a look at the most popular APN Blog posts in 2020. Our goal with this blog is to share timely and relevant news, technical solutions, partner success stories, and more from Amazon Web Services and the AWS Partner Network (APN) specifically. The APN is the global partner program for AWS and helps tens of thousands of organizations across the world build, market, and sell their AWS-based offerings.

AWS customers regularly use the “Find an AWS Partner” tool to discover organizations that can help them design, migrate, manage, and optimize workloads on Amazon Web Services. With a refreshed discovery experience, it’s even easier to find AWS Partners with validated qualifications for a variety of use cases. The new experience is also available in Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Spanish, and customers can search for AWS Partners by industry, use case, services, and solution offerings.

Follow along as Agilisium provides an early look at Amazon Redshift’s ra3.4xlarge instance type (RA3). This post details the result of various tests comparing the performance and cost for the RA3 and DS2 instance types. It will help AWS customers make an informed decision on choosing the instance type best suited to their data storage and compute needs. As a result of choosing the appropriate instance, your applications can perform better while also optimizing costs.

Customers often need to rely on third-party solutions to extract and transform data from sources such as Slack and Zendesk. Some vendors, however, do not support all of the sources and rely on multiple products to perform ETL and persist data into Snowflake. This post details how Amazon AppFlow simplifies the data transfer process, and how customers can use AWS PrivateLink for transmitting data over AWS rather than via the public internet.

The AWS SaaS Factory team had the chance to work with Ridgeline, a privately funded fintech startup determined to modernize investment management software, and help build their purpose-built enterprise platform on AWS. We speak with Chris Petrunik, Director of Engineering at Ridgeline, to learn how their platform works and what advice they have for other businesses building SaaS solutions on AWS.

We hope you enjoyed all of the educational content and big announcements at AWS re:Invent 2020! If you missed anything or just want to recap, we have rounded up the most relevant launches, program updates, and educational content available for AWS Partners. This post showcases the new programs that AWS Partners can take advantage of today, including AWS ISV Accelerate, SaaS Boost, and several new AWS Competency designations.

We are excited to highlight 85 AWS Partners that received new designations in November 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 APN Partners that can deliver on core business objectives. APN Partners are focused on your success, helping customers take full advantage of the business benefits AWS has to offer.

Learn how to enrich the AWS Well-Architected Tool’s workload report by adding the results of definitive best practice checks. This post will also associate the workload with specific AWS resources through the use of tags. Once the workload is tagged, you can use Trend Micro’s Cloud One – Conformity, which allows you to create a 360-degree workload review. This provides continuous assurance that your resources are complying with the AWS Well-Architected Framework.