Tag: AWS Competency Partners

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.

Wipro’s next-generation dealer and distributor management system (DMS) provides an omnichannel, microservices-based solution enabling complete visibility and integrated management of all dealer operations. By leveraging AWS’s scalable, reliable, and secure cloud infrastructure, the solution offers benefits like improved analytics, reduced costs, high availability, and faster time-to-market. Wipro provides dealers a modern DMS that addresses advanced requirements around mobile access, IoT, and AI.

As energy and utility companies transition to renewable energy, they face challenges with controlling costs and centralized IT that’s unable to scale. Sense Reply implements an IoT platform accelerator suite on AWS which enables faster time-to-market, microservice deployment, standardized IaC, and lifecycle management across environments and accounts. This allows companies to focus on business logic while leveraging a modular, scalable platform for diverse energy sector use cases.

In the ever-expanding digital landscape, the need for global accessibility has become paramount. Mission Cloud, an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner and leader in harnessing generative AI on AWS, joined forces with MagellanTV to reshape content delivery on the company’s documentary streaming platform, which contains a massive library of over 3,000 series that are accessible through top streaming platforms. This success story was featured during Ruba Borno’s Partner Keynote at AWS re:Invent 2023.

Crayon developed an intelligent decision support system for Savills Vietnam using AWS which ingests daily news in Vietnamese, translates to English with Amazon Translate, and categorizes articles using Amazon Comprehend. An intelligent search engine built on Amazon Kendra allows users to search in natural language and receive relevant excerpts or answers. With this tool, Savills can stay current on real estate news and trends to identify new opportunities. Optional dashboards provide analytics.

Retailers are adopting new technologies like Amazon’s Just Walk Out to provide a frictionless shopping experience. Cognizant’s Customer Concierge Solution integrates Just Walk Out with existing POS systems, allowing grab-and-go shopping. This packaged, API-based solution on AWS enables quick rollout, cost optimization, scalability, and security. It gives retailers the flexibility to repurpose labor while lowering costs and time to deploy advanced shopping technology.

AWS PrivateLink allows customers to securely connect cloud and on-premises data sources to Alation’s data catalog without exposing traffic to the public internet. This integration provides private connectivity between the customer’s VPC and Alation Cloud Service and simplifies network architecture. Using PrivateLink with Alation enables organizations to build a catalog of metadata from selected data assets while maintaining compliance with security and regulatory requirements.

AWS Partner Neurons Lab provides a step-by-step guide to deploy containerized applications on AWS using GitHub Actions, AWS CDK, and other key services. Neurons Lab, with expertise across data science, cloud, and business strategy, solves complex AI challenges and accelerates migration journeys for organizations seeking to modernize through AI integration on AWS. By leveraging AWS CDK constructs to define infrastructure as code, this reusable solution streamlines infrastructure setup and deployments.

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.

AWS provides discounted pricing through Reserved Instances and Savings Plans in return for usage commitments. Apptio Cloudability helps organizations maximize these commitments by analyzing AWS cost data to identify savings opportunities. Cloudability also offers automation to optimize commitments continuously, achieving higher savings than manual management allows. This frees up financial operations resources to focus on other cloud cost optimization initiatives.