AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog
Tag: AWS Competency Partners
Accelerate vendor evaluation with AWS Specializations and AWS Marketplace
AWS Specializations and AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights work together to transform vendor evaluation. By combining rigorous, domain-specific technical validations from AWS across more than 115 solution areas with continuously updated security posture dashboards, these complementary mechanisms give procurement, security, and technical teams the objective, structured information they need to make confident vendor selection decisions. Learn how a multilayered validation framework—pairing pre-vetted partner capabilities with real-time compliance monitoring—can help you move faster from discovery to decision while reducing your organization’s due diligence efforts.
Accenture and AWS accelerate data transformation with agentic AI
Accenture and AWS are closing the data readiness gap that stalls most enterprise AI initiatives with three new agentic AI solutions—now available in AWS Marketplace—that autonomously discover, migrate, govern, and make enterprise data consumable for generative AI and agentic applications. Built on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and backed by 16 years of partnership experience, these solutions help organizations turn fragmented, legacy data estates into strategic assets ready for agentic AI at enterprise scale.
Accelerating supply chain AI with Kinaxis MCP on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Integration complexity—not technology—remains the biggest barrier to deploying AI in supply chain operations, with custom API development consuming up to six months of engineering effort per project. Genpact’s Kinaxis MCP Server, built on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, collapses that timeline from 12 weeks to just 3 days by replacing dozens of custom integrations with a single, secure interface powered by the Model Context Protocol standard. Learn how organizations running Kinaxis RapidResponse on AWS are achieving up to 18% improvement in forecast accuracy and 23% reduction in stockout rates—with enterprise-grade security and session isolation built in from day one.
Say Hello to 158 New AWS Competency Partners Added in April
We are excited to highlight 158 AWS Partners that received new or renewed specializations in April for our global AWS Competency program. 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.
How ClickHouse powers real-time AI Agents on Amazon Quick
Real-time AI agents are transforming how businesses make decisions—but only when they can access analytical data at conversational speed. This post shows you how to integrate ClickHouse Cloud with Amazon Quick using Model Context Protocol (MCP), delivering sub-second query responses across billions of data points. Learn how to empower your teams with natural language access to live operational data, enabling instant insights and actions without writing a single line of SQL.
Continuous Compliance in the Cloud: Automating File Security for Regulated Industries
OPSWAT’s MetaDefender Storage Security delivers automated file security for regulated financial institutions on AWS, combining Deep Content Disarm and Reconstruction with multi-scanning and data loss prevention capabilities. A major U.S. bank achieved 75% faster security update deployments while maintaining compliance with GDPR, HIPAA, and GLBA through containerized deployment on Amazon ECS and EKS with seamless S3 integration. Available through AWS Marketplace, the solution provides continuous monitoring, automated compliance reporting, and reduced operational costs for organizations managing sensitive data across multiple cloud regions.
Unlocking API Security with Natural Language: How Salt Security’s MCP Server Transforms Insights into Action
Salt Security introduces its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, enabling security teams to query API security data using natural language instead of navigating complex dashboards—transforming hours of analysis into seconds of actionable insights. This democratizes API security expertise across organizations while accelerating threat response for AWS customers running cloud-first environments.
AWS Specialization Program: 2025 Enhancements and Looking Ahead
This blog covers a recap of 2025 enhancements to the AWS Specialization Program, including streamlined validation processes that reduced application time by 70%, enhanced AWS Marketplace visibility through badging and co-sell scoring, additional marketing funding, new AI categories, and more.
Powering Next-Level Partner Success: Innovations for Growth and Scale in 2026
Learn about new innovations announced at AWS re:Invent 2025 that elevate how Partners work with AWS to deliver exceptional customer value. These enhancements to Partner programs, AWS Marketplace, and Partner Services are designed to expand opportunities and drive unprecedented growth across the AWS Partner Network.
AWS Resilience Competency Expands to Include Software Partners
We’re expanding the AWS Resilience Competency to include Software Partners, which offers customers specialized solutions to enhance operational resilience and system reliability for critical workloads in the cloud.









