
The Next Smart
If you want to be successful in today's complex IT environment, and remain that way tomorrow and into the future, teaming up with an AWS Competency Partner is The Next Smart. These AWS Partners are equipped with the expertise and comprehensive capability to help you succeed at each stage of your cloud journey.
Connect with Competency Partners
Find Your AWS Competency Partner
You can find AWS Competency Partners by industry, by use case, or by workload. Here are a few AWS Competency areas to help you imagine what you can achieve together in the AWS Cloud.

AWS Data and Analytics Competency Partners
AWS Data and Analytics Competency Partners help customers evaluate and use the tools, techniques, and technologies of working with data productively, at any scale.

AWS DevOps Competency Partners
AWS DevOps Competency Partners provide solutions to help cusotmers implement continuous integration and continuous delivery practices. They can also automate infrastructure provisioning and management with configuration management tools on AWS.

AWS Digital Customer Experience Competency Partners
AWS Digital Customer Experience Competency Partners have demonstrated technical capabilities and success in all phases of the digital customer acquisition and rentention lifecycle.

AWS Education Competency Partners
AWS Education Competency Partners have demonstrated industry expertise and solutions aligning with AWS architectural best practices for teaching and learning, administration, and academic research efforts in education.

AWS Financial Services Competency Partners
AWS Financial Services Competency Partners have demonstrated industry expertise, readily implemented solutions that align with AWS architectural best practices, and have staff with AWS Certifications.

AWS Government Competency Partners
AWS Government Competency Partners have deep experience working with government customers to deliver mission-critical workloads and applications on AWS.

AWS IoT Competency Partners
AWS IoT Competency Partners have demonstrated success in building products and solutions on AWS to support customers in multiple areas, including: intelligent factories, smart cities, energy, automotive, transportation, and healthcare.

AWS Machine Learning Competency Partners
AWS Machine Learning Competency Partners provide solutions that help organizations solve their data challenges, enable machine learning and data science workflows, or offer SaaS based capabilities that enhance end applications with machine learning.

AWS Microsoft Workloads Competency Partners
AWS Microsoft Workloads Competency Partners have validated technical capabilities and demonstrated success in helping customers migrate, manage, or deploy Microsoft Workloads to AWS.

AWS Migration Competency Partners
AWS Migration Competency Partners provide solutions or have deep experience helping businesses move successfully to AWS through all phases of complex migration projects - discovery, planning, migration, and operations.

AWS Nonprofit Competency Partners
AWS Nonprofit Competency Partners have demonstrated success by providing end-to-end resources to scale mission impact and drive social change.

AWS Oracle Competency Partners
AWS Oracle Competency Partners have demonstrated success helping customers architect, deploy, and manage Oracle based workloads running on the AWS Cloud.

AWS SAP Competency Partners
AWS SAP Competency Partners have demonstrated success helping customers implement, migrate, and manage SAP applications on the AWS Cloud.

AWS Storage Competency Partners
AWS Storage Competency Partners have demonstrated success helping customers evaluate and use the technique and technologies of effectively storing data in the AWS Cloud.

View all AWS Competencies
Stay up to date on all of the AWS Competencies offered by AWS. Browse through the complete list.
AWS Machine Learning Competency Feature Story
TINE, the largest dairy cooperative in Norway, worked with Crayon, an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner and AWS Machine Learning Partner, on a solution that uses machine learning and big data to dramatically improve predictions around the quality and quantity of dairy products, with a goal of creating as many as 250 million data points on every cow – and potentially exporting its solution to agricultural organizations around the world.
AWS Migration Competency Feature Story
Transurban's Technology team was challenged with creating a highly resilient, automated, and secure cloud platform without slowing down product delivery of the Digital and Analytics program. Transurban, an ASX Top 20 company, partnered with Versent to achieve this and build an enterprise cloud platform based on agreed design principles for automation, security, and resiliency. The platform has passed multiple PCI Compliance Audits which is a testament to the strength of the principles Versent developed and continues to deliver speed and operational benefits to Transurban.
AWS Financial Services Competency Feature Story
Guidewire, one of the world’s leading insurance platform providers and AWS Financial Services Competency Partner, worked with AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, PwC, on a blockchain solution that improves the speed and security of claims approvals processes by removing time-consuming, error-prone manual steps.
AWS IoT Competency Feature Story
Pentair, a global diversified provider of water, thermal, and fluid management systems, worked with AWS Competency Partner, Bright Wolf, on an IoT solution being used to help salmon farming operations around the world to monitor the health of their fish, increase yields, and provide efficient, safe fish-farming operations to dramatically increase the availability of high-quality fish products for markets worldwide.
AWS Storage Competency Feature Story
The Dow Jones media and financial information company needed a way to reduce the costs and SLAs for information stored in off-site data centers. It turned to Commvault, an AWS Advanced Technology Partner and AWS Storage Competency Partner, to implement a single data platform for all of its backup and recovery needs, resulting in a fully automated and orchestrated solution for managing both cloud and on-premises data. This has cut costs for backup and disaster recovery operations by 50% or more while reducing recovery times from four days to four hours or less for critical applications.
Learn more about AWS Competency Partner success:
AWS Competency Partner videos on YouTube »
APN TV: The Next Smart video series featuring AWS Competency Partners »
Are you an APN Partner interested in the AWS Competency Program?