AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog

We are thrilled to be in Las Vegas for AWS re:Invent 2019 and our annual Global Partner Summit, meeting and connecting with APN Partners from around the world. This year’s conference provides APN Partners with great opportunities to connect, collaborate, and discover. APN Partners will be busy all week attending breakout sessions, chalk talks, and hands-on trainings to learn how the APN program can help their business build, market, and sell their AWS-based offerings.

All of us at Amazon Web Services and the AWS Partner Network (APN) are excited to meet and connect with APN Partners from around the globe at this year’s conference. To help you prepare, we’ve rounded up a number of things to check out while you are in Las Vegas for re:Invent the week of December 2-6. Learn how to leverage AWS technologies to serve your customers, and how APN programs can help you build, market, and sell your AWS-based offerings.

We are excited to highlight 69 APN Partners that received new designations in August for our global AWS Competency, AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP), and AWS Service Delivery programs. These designations span workload, solution, and industry, and help AWS customers identify top APN Partners that can deliver on core business objectives. APN Partners are focused on your success, helping customers take full advantage of the business benefits AWS has to offer.

Many public sector organizations and commercial companies are not prepared or equipped to manage this digital disruption. Every business needs trusted partners to succeed. This is the motivation behind the AWS Partner Transformation Program (PTP), a comprehensive assessment, training, and enablement program focused on helping you build a successful and profitable AWS Cloud business. Launched in 2018, the PTP help APN Partners and AWS Public Sector Partners accelerate the transformation

CircleCI has made building and deploying your AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) applications easier with the release of the aws-serverless orb. Now, developers can deploy and test serverless applications on AWS with minimal configuration, combining the benefits of continuous integration with the power of serverless. CircleCI orbs are shareable packages of configuration elements, including jobs, commands, and executors.

The APN Customer Engagements (ACE) program helps APN Partners support customers and drive successful engagements on AWS. Through the ACE program, qualifying APN Partners are eligible to receive AWS Lead and Opportunity Referrals through the ACE Pipeline Manager in APN Partner Central. The ACE Pipeline Manager provides you with resources, tools, and the sales and technical support to ensure you are supported in driving meaningful engagements with AWS customers.

ISVs servicing the insurance industry can take advantage of AWS infrastructure and services to architect solutions that meet these needs, without requiring large up-front capital expenditures. Insurity ClaimsXPress is a claims management system built on AWS that provides a redundant, secure, multi-region architecture. In this post, we will outline how Insurity has architected their ClaimsXPress solution on AWS to deliver an enterprise-grade SaaS solution for the commercial insurance market.

Advances in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) have made smart factories a reality through the application of AI and cloud computing technologies. In this post, explore how EXOR International’s systems-on-module (SOM) and edge gateways, powered by Intel’s Cyclone V FPGA, allow system integrators and application builders to deliver AWS-based IIoT solutions with faster time-to-market, lower total cost of ownership, and reduced development efforts.

SynchroNet uses the End User Computing Adoption Framework (EUCAF) as a proven approach to providing customers with a clear path to analyze, design, deploy, automate, and operate their Amazon WorkSpaces, AWS AppStream 2.0, or virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) on AWS at scale. SynchroNet is an AWS End User Computing Competency Partner whose hyper-focus on EUC helps enterprise, governments, and APN Partners accelerate the adoption and lifecycle support of EUC services at scale.

With the recent launch of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) session tags, customers can simplify fine-grained access to Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources by using attributes from their own corporate directories in permissions rules. Enterprise customers frequently manage their workforce identities (the “who”) using an identity provider (IdP) such as PingFederate or PingOne for Enterprise by Ping Identity.

With the proliferation of cost-effective storage options such as Amazon S3, there should be no reason you can’t keep your data forever, except that with this much data it can be difficult to create value in a timely and efficient way. MongoDB’s Atlas Data Lake enables developers to mine their data for insights with more storage options and the speed and agility of the AWS Cloud. It provides a serverless parallelized compute platform that gives you a powerful and flexible way to analyze and explore your data on Amazon S3.

Long and costly, the journey to HITRUST certification can distract teams from other responsibilities and goals. But choosing the right partner can accelerate the process by up to 50 percent, reducing your overall investments of money and internal resources. Learn how HITRUST certification helps healthcare providers, payers, and technology companies stay on top of HIPAA regulations, and how using AWS simplifies and streamlines the HITRUST certification process.