AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog
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Announcing the Regional 2023 AWS Partners of the Year for Europe, Middle East, and Africa
We are excited to announce our regional 2023 AWS Partners of the Year from Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). This year’s partner award winners can be proud of the contributions they have made to empower organizations to make data-driven decisions and save costs whilst also achieving certifications to better meet customers’ evolving needs. Working side by side with AWS Partners, we are stronger when supporting customers together and look forward to strengthening our partnerships in 2024.
Introducing the AWS Networking Competency for Consulting Partners
Networking is fundamental to cloud adoption and critical for infrastructure expansion, redundancy, and resiliency. To make it easier for customers to find validated AWS Networking Partners, we are excited to introduce the new AWS Networking Competency for Consulting Partners. These partners have deep domain expertise in developing a consistent network and security policy, as well as solutions that offer a new way of routing traffic through private backbones and cloud cores.
Introducing New AWS Solution Provider Program Incentives for AWS Partners
Today, we are excited to announce two new incentives to further recognize and support the growth, investment, and innovation of our evolving AWS Partner community. Effective October 1, 2021, the Partner Growth Rebate and Partner Originated Discount incentives will recognize AWS Solution Providers for growing their existing AWS Program Accounts and originating new end-customer opportunities. With these financial incentives, AWS Solution Providers can accelerate their business through new rebates and discounts.
AWS Service Broker: Bridging the Gulf Between On-Premises and AWS
The AWS Service Broker is a new open source project that allows APN Partners to integrate AWS services directly into their solutions. Customers can then deploy AWS services without leaving the application platform of choice. Built around the industry standard Open Service Broker API, the AWS Service Broker can be seamlessly integrated with any platform which has adopted the API specification. Currently, the AWS Service Broker supports 10 native AWS services with more to be added in the near future.
Enabling Amazon Connect with Salesforce Service Cloud and Sales Cloud
Building on the strategic alliance between Amazon Web Services and Salesforce, we are excited to announce the first release of the Amazon Connect Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) Adapter for Salesforce. Amazon Connect is designed as a highly scalable, self-service, cloud-based contact center service that makes it easy for any business to deliver better customer service […]
Three new AWS Training specialty courses now available
AWS Training can help APN Partners deepen AWS knowledge and skills and better serve customers. We are adding three of our most popular training bootcamps from events to our permanent instructor-led training portfolio based on feedback from our customers. These one-day courses are intended for individuals who would like to dive deeper into a specialized […]
New AWS Marketplace IoT Discovery Webpage Accelerates IoT Innovation
AWS Marketplace now has an IoT discovery webpage that makes it easier for you to buy IoT software from popular software vendors that’s integrated with, or running on, AWS Cloud services. This page features 17 IoT software providers. IoT is a complex industry represented by connected devices and the data they produce, supported by a […]
Announcing the Addition of AWS Service Catalog to the AWS Service Delivery Program
The AWS Service Delivery Program launched in November 2016 with one simple goal at heart: to help customers easily identify APN Partners with a proven track record of success delivering specific AWS services and who have demonstrated the ability to provide expertise in a specific service or skill area. Looking for help migrating a database […]
Announcing SaaS Contracts, a Feature to Simplify SaaS Procurement on AWS Marketplace
By Brad Lyman, Principal Product Manager at AWS Since the inception of AWS Marketplace, we have prioritized customer and seller feedback as our starting point for driving Marketplace improvements. In response to customers and sellers pointing to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) as their preferred software delivery mechanism, we launched AWS Marketplace SaaS Subscriptions in November 2016. SaaS Subscriptions […]
AWS Marketplace Helps Software Vendors with the Availability of a New Tax Calculation Service
This is a guest post from the AWS Marketplace team. Software vendors that sell products on AWS Marketplace can now choose to enroll paid product listings in Tax Calculation Service (TCS) for automatic U.S. sales tax calculation on all of your AWS Marketplace transactions. For products enrolled in TCS, AWS Marketplace calculates and collects U.S. […]