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Whether your role is business or technical, use the APN Learning Path to get skilled on AWS. Read below to learn about all the partner training courses available for your role.
This course covers a basic understanding of AWS, the key services that comprise AWS, and core business value propositions. Online modules help build the foundation to effectively leverage AWS solutions to customers. Take an assessment to earn the AWS Business Professional Accreditation.
Digital | 5 Hours | Free
Learn about the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) concept and the economics of AWS data centers. Learn to use the AWS TCO Calculator to understand the value of AWS and to explain the benefits of AWS IT solutions based on TCO. Take an assessment to earn the AWS TCO and Cloud Economics Accreditation.
Digital | 3 Hours | Free
Learn about AWS best practices so you can better meet customer business challenges in small-medium and enterprise businesses. The course covers customer priorities (including CxO-level priorities) with content examples that focus on AWS differentiators, AWS security and compliance, pricing optimization including TCO, and the cloud adoption process.
Classroom | 1 Day | Free
Digital | 3 Hours | Free
This course focuses on AWS best practices that align AWS case studies and solutions with Big Data & Analytics challenges faced by small-medium and enterprise businesses. This course provides a variety of industry examples that focus on identifying Big Data opportunities. Learn how AWS conducts effective discovery conversations with technical and business personas and how AWS aligns high-level Big Data & Analytics solutions to our customer's key business initiatives. Customer success stories, Big Data solution examples, and interactive activities will be leveraged to enhance learning.
Classroom | 1 Day | Free
Digital | 3 Hours | Free
This course teaches AWS Business Professional partners about the specific benefits of moving Windows workloads onto AWS. We recommend this course for business professionals at APN consulting partner companies who have knowledge of the general benefits of cloud and AWS.
Classroom | 4 Hours | Free
Digital | 2 Hours | Free
This course introduces the business benefits of setting up a cloud-based contact center using Amazon Connect. You will learn how to discuss the value proposition of Amazon Connect with your customers and explain the pricing model. The sample adoption process and customer use case discussed in the course will help reinforce the concepts learned. You will also see a demonstration on how to potentially solve customer challenges and provide exceptional customer experience from contact centers using Amazon Connect.
Digital | 90 Minutes | Free
The course focuses on establishing knowledge to effectively engage with customers in positioning AWS for SAP workloads. You will learn how to identify an SAP opportunity, explain the services offered by AWS for SAP, articulate the benefits of running SAP on AWS, and work with customers to position AWS for their SAP workloads. Customer engagement models, sales plays, and case studies are used in the course to enhance your learning experience.
Classroom | 4 Hours | Free
Digital | 2 Hours | Free
This course focuses on how to identify and qualify enterprise workloads for cloud migration, assess migration readiness, and build a compelling business case for cloud migration. It is based on the structured migration methodology developed and used by AWS teams for large-scale migrations.
Classroom | 4 Hours | Free
Digital | 1 Hour | Free
This course focuses on establishing knowledge to effectively engage with customers in positioning AWS for machine learning (ML) workloads. You will learn how to identify an ML opportunity, explain the services offered by AWS in the ML field, and articulate the benefits of running ML workloads on AWS.
Classroom | 3 Hours | Free
Digital | 90 Minutes | Free
This executive-level workshop is designed specifically for “New to the Cloud” APN Consulting Partner Executives to explore what it takes to transition from a traditional IT sales model to profitability delivering value-added services for AWS customers. Best-practice management examples for organizational change will be shared.
Classroom | 4 Hours | Free
This course covers fundamental, technical knowledge of AWS cloud computing, global infrastructure, services, common solutions, migration, security, and compliance. It is intended to empower learners to make informed decisions about IT solutions based on customer business requirements. Take an assessment to earn the AWS Technical Professional Accreditation.
Digital | 5 Hours | Free
Learn about the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) concept and the economics of AWS data centers. Learn to use the AWS TCO Calculator to understand the value of AWS and to explain the benefits of AWS IT solutions based on TCO. Take an assessment to earn the AWS TCO and Cloud Economics Accreditation.
Digital | 3 Hours | Free
Learn to make informed decisions about your architectures in a cloud-native way and understand the impact of design decisions that are made. By using the Well-Architected Framework, you will understand the risks in your architecture and ways to mitigate them. This course is designed to provide a deep dive into the AWS Well-Architected Framework and its 5 pillars. It is broken into 6 modules including an overview of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, as well as the Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Operational Excellence Pillars.
Digital | 2 Hours | Free
This course teaches the technical fundamentals of running Microsoft applications on AWS. You will learn about the various tools available to migrate, develop, build, deploy, manage, and operate Microsoft applications and Windows Servers on AWS. The course presents case studies and reference architectures to showcase how some AWS customer architectures have been designed for common Microsoft applications including SQL, SharePoint, and Exchange.
Classroom | 1 Day | Free
Digital | 4 Hours | Free
This course teaches you how to quickly set up a cloud-based contact center using Amazon Connect. You will learn the technical details of provisioning, configuring, and managing Amazon Connect. This course also highlights how you can integrate Amazon Connect with other AWS services like AWS Lambda, Amazon Kinesis, and Amazon Redshift.
Digital | 90 Minutes | Free
This bootcamp is designed to enable APN Premier and Advanced Consulting Partners to develop and extend professional services competencies for AWS customer implementations. This bootcamp mixes strategy and ‘delivery how-to’ derived from our own customer implementation and migration projects. It is intended for technical practice leaders and individuals who are responsible for professional services implementation and delivery for AWS customers. We expose you to our delivery framework and methodology, share deep levels of architectural patterns, and provide frameworks for TCO comparison, Time to ROI, migration assessments and tools, security optimization, and much more.
Classroom | 3 Days | Free
This course teaches the technical fundamentals of running SAP on AWS. It is designed to teach pre-sales engineers at APN Consulting Partner organizations how to discuss the key architectural patterns for running SAP on AWS. You will learn how to size SAP on AWS to meet performance targets; perform basic system operations for SAP on AWS including backups, monitoring, and automated deployments; and make architectural decisions based on AWS-recommended best practices. You will also deploy SAP HANA on AWS using AWS Quick Starts.
Classroom | 1 Day | Free
Digital | 4 Hours | Free
