Tag: APN Programs

At AWS, we’re at the forefront of an exciting transformation to drive our partners to new heights of productivity and profitability. Whether you want to reach new customers, sell alongside AWS sellers, or accelerate sales through AWS Marketplace, this transformation expands your opportunities every stage of your journey. In this post, we share key enhancements we’re making over the next six months to deepen your expertise and broaden the value across your business models.

With the contact center and customer experience industry evolving rapidly, more businesses are seeing the benefits of investing in innovative solutions, like Amazon Connect, to streamline their systems. We’re excited to announce the Amazon Connect Ready specialization to support seamless customer engagement across multiple channels; improve employee productivity through enhanced data collection; and provide analytics, insights, and optimization dashboards.

Enterprises undergoing digital transformation in the cloud are realizing the benefits of running their applications in containers. To help customers streamline containerized workload implementations, we’re excited to announce the Amazon ECS Delivery specialization. Amazon ECS Delivery Partners have technical expertise in assessing, scoping, designing, integrating, deploying, operating, and optimizing container environments using either Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) or AWS Fargate.

The AWS Ambassador Program is a vibrant worldwide community of technical experts, known as AWS Ambassadors, who are prominent leaders and passionate about sharing their AWS technical expertise. They author blogs and whitepapers, create and deliver public presentations, and contribute to open source projects. Our Ambassadors evangelize AWS via social media and facilitate peer-to-peer learning by presenting at conferences, leading workshops, and hosting user group events.

Developing a co-sell program that supports your organization’s collaboration objectives with AWS involves identifying necessary activities and managing them to deliver results. The best practices outlined in this post are considered evergreen and have positively impacted AWS Partners who have prioritized their go-to-market strategy with AWS. To follow this guide, you must be a member of the AWS Partner Network (APN) and participate in the AWS ISV Accelerate Program.

We are excited to highlight 182 AWS Partners that received new or renewed designations in May for our global AWS Competency, AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP), AWS Service Delivery, and AWS Service Ready programs. These designations span workload, solution, and industry, and help AWS customers identify top AWS Partners that can deliver on core business objectives. AWS Partners are focused on your success, helping customers take full advantage of the business benefits AWS has to offer.

The 2023 AWS Partner Awards honor partners who have demonstrated outstanding results and innovation with the use of AWS products and solutions. AWS Partners can self-nominate themselves to be considered across a select number of AWS Partner Award categories. Award submissions will be reviewed by a third-party and selected with special emphasis placed on customer success use cases presented in the nomination form. All nominations must be submitted by 11:59 PM PDT on August 17, 2023.

Customers are increasingly purchasing software and services in AWS Marketplace to take advantage of added efficiencies, cost savings, and flexible payment and terms. As we continue to transform the AWS Partner experience, we’re focused on scaling AWS Marketplace to help you drive greater customer value. In this post, we share key operational and self-service enhancements we’ve made to help you scale your offerings in AWS Marketplace, while lowering your operating costs and accelerating time-to-close.

To help break down barriers and develop your cloud skills, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has created several methods to guide you on the correct learning journey, including learning plans, courses with different training styles, and a curated list of our most popular courses amongst AWS Partners. In this post, explore what training resonates with the thousands of partners already learning with AWS Partner Training and Certification.

The AWS SaaS Factory team has supported many AWS Partners in implementing Partner-Led Growth (PLG) tactics as part of their efforts to reduce customer acquisition cost, widen their funnel, and expand globally. If you’re thinking your SaaS business is not growing fast enough, PLG may be the key to unlock your product’s potential. Everyone from boards, investors, founders, C-suite executives, and even individual team members can benefit from understanding this game-changing strategy.