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New AI Security Category for AWS Security Competency Partners
AI adoption is rapidly transforming application development while introducing new security risks that demand specialized expertise in areas like data privacy, model integrity, system availability, abuse prevention, and threat detection. To address this, we’re excited to introduce a new AI security category for AWS Security Competency Partners, designed to help customers easily identify Partners with deep experience in securing AI environments and defending workloads against advanced threats and attacks.
Energize and Amplify – Data and AI Governance and Security on AWS through Partners
In an era where data drives innovation and AI reshapes industries, effective governance and security have become paramount. Recognizing this critical need, AWS has launched a groundbreaking Data & AI Governance and Security partner initiative. This program brings together elite Service and Software partners to tackle the complex challenges organizations face in managing their data and AI assets. Partners joining this initiative gain access to exclusive AWS tools, expertise, and go-to-market support. They also benefit from potential funding opportunities and increased visibility within the AWS ecosystem. For customers, this initiative offers a curated selection of vetted partners equipped with the expertise and tools to navigate the complexities of data and AI governance. By leveraging these partnerships, organizations can build strong foundations for responsible, secure, and innovative data practices while maintaining compliance and ethical standards.
Announcing the Regional 2024 AWS Partners of the Year for Europe, Middle East, and Africa
We’re excited to announce the regional 2024 AWS Partners of the Year from Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). This year’s award winners have demonstrated exceptional innovation and commitment to customer success. Working side by side with AWS Partners have yielded remarkable results, and we’re excited to build upon these successes as we strengthen our partnerships throughout 2025.
Announcing the 2024 Geo and Global AWS Partners of the Year
Each year, we honor members of the AWS Partner Network (APN) from around the globe that play key roles in helping customers drive innovation and build solutions on AWS. Announced during a Partner Awards Gala at AWS re:Invent, the 2024 Geo and Global AWS Partner Awards recognize a wide range of partners whose business models have embraced specialization, innovation, and cooperation over the past year.
Announcing AWS Partner Network Launch Partners for resource control policies
By integrating RCPs into their solutions, these APN partners are helping our joint customers to centrally manage and enforce access controls on their AWS resources at scale. This helps customers align with their organization’s security policies and help mitigate the risk of unintended external access. Customers can use these partner solutions to simplify policy enforcement and rapidly operationalize security across AWS resources in their organization.
Updates to the AWS Foundational Technical Review
We’re streamlining the AWS Foundational Technical Review (FTR) process—including extending the renewal period and waiving the FTR for partners that have completed an AWS Well-Architected Framework Review. The AWS Foundational Technical Review (FTR) helps partners adopt AWS technical best practices specific to their software or solution.
Know Before You Go: An AWS Partner’s Guide to re:Invent 2024
We’re excited to bring you AWS re:Invent 2024 both in-person and virtually. The conference is December 2 – December 6 in Las Vegas, with virtual opportunities to watch keynotes and Innovation Talks live. To help you prepare, we curated a list of key re:Invent information for AWS Partner and AWS Marketplace communities.
Transforming Teacher Development with AI-Driven Coaching Feedback
Learn how Steplab, in collaboration with AWS and BJSS, leverages Amazon Bedrock and Claude 3.5 Sonnet LLM to revolutionize teacher coaching through AI-powered personalized feedback.
Congrats to Our 2024 AWS Ambassador Award Winners and Meet the Newest AWS Ambassadors
The AWS Ambassador Program is a vibrant worldwide community of AWS experts, known as AWS Ambassadors, from AWS Partner Network (APN) Services and Software Partners. AWS Ambassadors are recognized as influential AWS professionals in supporting and driving their organization’s AWS proficiency and sharing their thought leadership with the broader community. AWS Ambassadors possess and maintain […]
CrowdStrike’s Charlotte AI – Enhancing productivity of Cyber Security Analysts with Generative AI built-on AWS
Learn about how CrowdStrike is using AWS AI capabilities to transform security operations. By partnering with AWS, CrowdStrike is able to accelerate analyst workflows, deliver AI-native protection to thousands of organizations of all sizes and industries, and to deliver world-class protection that matches the speed, scale and sophistication of modern adversaries.