Tag: Deloitte

We’re excited to share the next wave of AWS Generative AI Competency Partners that have demonstrated deep expertise in building and deploying groundbreaking generative AI applications across industries. Expanding the competency further helps AWS customers quickly locate experienced and well-supported partners in their region and showcase their innovations worldwide.

By Matthijs ten Seldam, Global Program Manager – AWS Ambassador Program The AWS Ambassador Program is a vibrant worldwide community of AWS experts, known as AWS Ambassadors, from AWS Partner Network (APN) Services and Software Partners. AWS Ambassadors are recognized as influential AWS professionals in supporting and driving their organization’s AWS proficiency and sharing their […]

Deloitte and AWS have expanded their collaboration to help organizations worldwide migrate to the cloud. Deloitte will invest in AWS Centers of Excellence, hiring over 800 AWS specialists across Sub-Saharan Africa, Spain, and Central Europe, providing cloud consulting, training, innovation labs, and managed services to empower digital transformations. This strategic agreement leverages Deloitte’s industry expertise and AWS’s leading cloud capabilities to overcome adoption barriers.

We are excited to highlight 129 AWS Partners that received new or renewed specializations in February 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.

With the ability to automate tasks, enhance productivity, and enable hyper-personalized customer experiences, businesses are seeking specialized expertise to build a successful generative AI strategy. To support this need, we’re excited to announce the AWS Generative AI Competency—an AWS Specialization that helps AWS customers more quickly adopt generative AI solutions and strategically position themselves for the future.

Marriott’s CISO Arno Van Der Walt manages cybersecurity through a “human-centered, data-driven, technology-enabled” approach aimed at making security frictionless. Critical partnerships with AWS, Deloitte, and Palo Alto Networks leverage AI/ML to share threat data and empower “impossible” autonomous security. Together, their tri-party services provide an end-to-end platform unifying business and security data to detect threats and enable quick response.

Thank you for joining us in Las Vegas for AWS re:Invent 2023. We hope you enjoyed all of the educational content and big announcements. If you missed anything or just want to recap, we have rounded up the most relevant launches and program updates available for the AWS Partner and AWS Marketplace communities, including the AWS Partner Keynote with Ruba Borno, which showcased how AWS is improving the partner experience to guide partners to higher-value opportunities and longer-term success.

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.

Organizations today face a number of resilience challenges—from data and state failures to downtime caused by code deployment issues or unexpected events—with high expectations from customers to be ‘always on, always available’. That’s why we’re excited to announce the AWS Resilience Competency, which helps AWS customers improve the availability and resilience of critical workloads in the cloud.

Each year, we honor members of the AWS Partner Network (APN) from around the globe that play key roles in helping customers drive innovation and build solutions on AWS. Announced during a Partner Awards Gala at AWS re:Invent, the 2023 Geo and Global AWS Partner Awards recognize a wide range of partners whose business models have embraced specialization, innovation, and cooperation over the past year. Please join us in congratulating these AWS Partners for their continued success!