AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog

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Global Partner Summit 2017 Recap

Our team was especially proud to represent the AWS Partner Network (APN) at the sixth annual Global Partner Summit, held in Las Vegas during AWS re:Invent 2017. Global Partner Summit included a keynote by Terry Wise, Vice President of Global Alliances, Ecosystem, and Channels, as well as dozens of breakout sessions over two days featuring business and technical topics to help you grow your AWS-based practice.

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Introducing the AWS Networking Competency

We are excited to introduce the AWS Networking Competency—a new program for APN Technology Partners that launched at the Global Partner Summit at AWS re:Invent 2017. AWS Networking Competency Partners provide network solutions and assist customers adopt, develop, and deploy applications on AWS. They offer a set of specialized solutions that auto-scale, are aligned with cloud design principles, and make it easier to use networking features in a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).

New AWS Certification Specialty Exams and Benefits

AWS Certified partners now have more ways to validate skills and showcase expertise. We are introducing two new AWS Certification Specialty Exams and our new AWS Certification Benefits Program. AWS Certification – Specialty Exams Our new AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty and AWS Certified Big Data – Specialty exams are designed for people with […]

Partner SA Roundup – March 2017

For this month’s Partner SA roundup, AWS Partner SAs Pratap Ramamurthy, Juan Villa, and Scott Ward discuss three APN Technology Partners: SoftNAS, Threat Stack, and Zscaler. Let’s dive in! SoftNAS, by Juan Villa Deploying and managing high performance and highly available NAS/SAN solutions can be difficult and error prone. SoftNAS, an APN Advanced Technology and […]

Have You Read Our 2016 AWS Partner Solutions Architect Guest Posts?

In 2016, we hosted 38 guest posts from AWS Partner Solutions Architects (SAs), who work very closely with both Consulting and Technology Partners as they build solutions on AWS. As we kick off 2017, I want to take a look back at all of the fantastic content created by our SAs. A few key themes emerged […]

New AWS Security Competency Partner Solution: Sophos Outbound Gateway

The following is a guest post from our friends at AWS Security Competency Partner Sophos.  Fun fact: Sophos is one of the first APN Partners to be featured on “This Is My Architecture”, a new video series that highlights innovative AWS architectural solutions. Check out the Sophos video: Many of our more security conscious customers in AWS consider […]

AWS Networking for Developers

This post is co-authored with Mark Stephens, Partner Solutions Architect, AWS If you’re a developer and are new to AWS, there is a good chance you have not had the need to set up or configure many networks. As a developer that has a need to work with infrastructure, you might end up running into […]

How Can APN Partners Help You Migrate or Deploy XenApp & XenDesktop to the Cloud?

Are you interested in moving your Citrix XenApp, XenDesktop and/or NetScaler workloads to the AWS Cloud? We’ve assembled an AWS Accelerator with Advanced APN Technology Partner Citrix to help you plan and execute a successful trial migration while using your existing licenses. As my colleague Jeff Barr explains on the AWS Blog, “The migration process makes use of the […]

Taking NAT to the Next Level in AWS CloudFormation Templates

Santiago Cardenas is a Partner Solutions Architect (SA) at AWS.   So you’re already creating your cloud infrastructure using AWS CloudFormation to automate your deployments through infrastructure-as-code. As you design the virtual network, you’re probably already using public and private subnets within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), given the best practices of subnet isolation […]