Tag: Databricks

We’re excited to announce the regional 2025 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 has yielded remarkable results, and we’re excited to build upon these successes as we strengthen our partnerships throughout 2026.

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 2025 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.

We’re announcing three new Agentic AI categories in the AWS AI Competency, helping customers find validated Partners who can implement production-ready autonomous systems. With IDC projecting 65% of organizations will fully deploy agentic AI by 2027, this expansion represents our largest Specialization launch to date with 60 Launch Partners ready to help customers move beyond experimentation to drive real business value. The launch also includes an automated validation process that cuts application time by up to 70%.

Introducing AWS IAM temporary delegation, a new capability that enables ISV Accelerate Partners to streamline customer onboarding while maintaining security controls. Learn the benefits and how Partners are using this capability to transform their customer experience.

As customer expectations evolve and data volumes grow exponentially, organizations face unprecedented challenges in managing and activating customer data effectively. Snowplow, a behavioral data collection platform, combined with Databricks Lakehouse platform, creates a scalable foundation for building a next-generation composable CDP on AWS. This solution enables organizations to collect, process, and activate customer data at scale while maintaining complete data ownership and control.

The consumer goods industry is rapidly evolving, driven by changing customer preferences, supply chain disruptions, and emerging technologies and regulations. We’re excited to announce the AWS Consumer Goods Competency, an AWS Specialization that connects industry customers with Partners offering cutting-edge technology solutions. AWS Consumer Goods Competency Partners deliver leading industry technology solutions and expert consulting service—supporting comprehensive transformation of consumer goods companies’ operating models.

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.

Databricks fleet instances were developed for large Databricks workloads on AWS to improve cluster provisioning process, increase Amazon EC2 Spot utilization, and drive overall cost optimization. Learn how customers can launch clusters using Spot instances using diversified node types. This increases a cluster’s chances of getting EC2 Spot instances which in turn further reduces costs. Maximizing availability and EC2 Spot utilization is key to running cost-optimized Databricks workloads on AWS.

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 2023 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. Please join us in congratulating these AWS Partners for their continued success!

Many organizations have standardized or plan to standardize their unified data security governance on AWS Lake Formation. Some of these organizations are also leveraging Databricks and would like to create and manage data access policies for Databricks using AWS Lake Formation as well. Learn how Privacera’s integrated solution extends AWS Lake Formation source support to Databricks and provides data access policy authorship and maintenance from one safe and convenient location.