The AWS TechShift program provides access to a wide-range of resources to build, market and deliver your software solutions with Amazon Web Services (AWS). For over 10 years, AWS has been one of the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platforms. AWS services are trusted by more than a million active customers and tens of thousands of APN Partners around the world to power their infrastructure, make them more agile, and lower costs. Register to be a member of the AWS Partner Network (APN) today.

AWS TechShift is a multi-phased APN program for ISVs to accelerate the transformation of their solutions on the AWS cloud. The program aims to provide a progression path for B2B software builders; with their very first engagement with AWS, through to established ISVs looking to expand with programs such as SaaS Factory and the Workload Migration Program.

The program consists of 1-to-many engagement and training events, prescriptive labs and guidance, 1-to-some tailored enablement and a path to other APN programs.

The TechShift Program consists of 4 different phases – Engage, Embark, Empower and Expand.

Engage aims to introduce you to the AWS Technology Partner Program and how you can leverage it to build, market and deliver your solutions on AWS.

Embark, the second phase of the TechShift Program, consists of 1-to-many workshops addressing the different phases of transformation. This would consist of theory sessions, hands-on-labs and team activities.

Empower, is an opt-in phase, where we would work with you in a time-bound manner to help accelerate your transformation journey by introducing time-bound investments of benefits such as access to Solution Architects, office hours, Sandbox credits, building a Go-to-Market and marketing plan.

Finally, Expand, the last phase of the TechShift program, would help you build a path to other APN programs that you can opt for based on your company’s vision, nature of your solutions as well as the requirements of the respective programs.

Join us for an Engage event for business and technology leaders from software companies looking to build new cloud applications, or migrate their applications to the cloud. Learn directly from business and technology leaders as they share their unique perspectives on the SaaS journey their organizations have undertaken, and be inspired by the scale and growth they have been able to achieve in partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Chief Executive Officers, Chief Technology Officers, Heads of Technology, and Heads of Development/ DevOps for Independent Software Vendors (ISV’s), Start-ups, Technology Partners, and new businesses looking to build a SaaS Solution on AWS.

• Get Inspired by AWS customers’ business stories and technical innovations
• Get Equipped with business insights and practical technical tools
• Get Connected with like-minded software companies, AWS technology experts and programs
  

The Embark event series is for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) looking to accelerate the transformation of their solutions to the AWS cloud. The Embark event series consists of three types of workshops – Migrate, Modernize and SaaS, addressing different stages of your AWS transformation journey. Through a series of technical workshops covering different AWS services relevant at each phase of your transformation journey, we aim to empower and enable you at each stage of your journey.

You could be at various stages of your cloud journey and might be looking to do the following:

• You are interested in deploying your solution faster or reducing your infrastructure costs
• Your customers are seeking a flexible, cloud model
• You need to introduce new features (analytics etc.) quickly
• You intend to move to a SaaS model in the long-term and are interested in starting with a phased approach
  

Embark consists of 3 different types of workshops – Migrate, Modernize & SaaS. These workshops are delivered in a face-to-face classroom setting and consist of theory sessions, hands-on labs and team activities. You are able to register interest for the workshop that you feel is more relevant to where you are in your transformation journey. Alternatively, you could directly reach out to your partner manager to help select the most appropriate workshop for you.

Migrate: This workshop is aimed at ISVs new to AWS that want to deploy the application in a single-tenanted, high availability architecture.

Modernize: This workshop is aimed at ISVs that want to deploy their application using a scalable, self-healing architecture on AWS.

SaaS: This workshop is aimed as ISVs who are ready to deliver their software in a multi-tenanted architecture exclusively as a service.

To be eligible for the workshops, you must meet the following criteria:

• Registered as a Technology Partner on the AWS Partner Network as a Registered tier (or higher)
  

AWS TechShift Embark Workshops
February 2020

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After attending the Embark workshops, if you feel that you would like to begin your transformation journey right away, we have just the right next phase for you, called Empower. At the end of your Embark workshops, you would be able to opt-in for this phase if you are agreeable to a time-bound development timeline (3 months for Migrate, 6 months for Modernize & 12 months for SaaS). AWS would support your journey here through co-investments and by providing you with access to specialist personnel. As a pre-requisite, you need to have attended an Embark workshop before you can opt in for the Empower phase. To learn more, you can reach out to your partner manager.