Tag: Partners with AWS Qualified Offerings

Be amongst the first businesses in the AWS Partner Network (APN) to receive a branded APN Partner Plaque showcasing your company name and APN Partner status. To receive the APN Partner Plaque, your company must meet the new APN tier requirements at your current tier, or upgrade to the next APN tier prior to December 31, 2019. If you are a registered APN member, you can earn the plaque by becoming an official APN Partner—that is, Consulting and Technology Partners at the Select tier or higher.

HAQM EKS provides a Kubernetes management infrastructure across Availability Zones so you don’t have to manage a control plane or replace unhealthy control plane nodes. AWS Competency Partner XebiaLabs supports infrastructure provisioning and application deployment for many of the most popular AWS services, including HAQM EKS. They recently introduced a feature called DevOps as Code, which makes it even easier to migrate applications to HAQM EKS infrastructure.

When managing AWS spending, you want to mitigate risks and costs wherever possible. One way to do this is to increase your coverage of HAQM EC2 Reserved Instances, which results in significant discounts and increased savings. However, constantly improving technology and the evolving needs of your company can render your committed Reserved Instances obsolete. Cloudwiry’s cost management platform specializes in this cost-recovery practice by optimizing Reserved Instance coverage for ROI.

Power utilities around the world are headed towards the most radical shift in their business since their inception nearly 150 years ago. The digitization of the grid—along with the shifting requirements of regulatory bodies—creates new challenges and opportunities for utilities around the world. Intel and AWS are committed to providing the tools, platforms, and services to make these capabilities a reality. In that context, this post introduces the concept of Energy IoT.

AWS is committed to supporting APN Partners’ go-to-market (GTM) strategies and drive demand for their services and solutions. The new APN Partner Pipeline Builder Framework will help APN Partners build new, or enhance existing, processes that support sales pipeline development. This framework acts as a key resource to help APN Partners build GTM plans that aid in the development of their AWS-focused services or solutions.

Automatic software patching is not yet seen as a security benefit, even though out-of-date software is the cause of many recent cybersecurity failures. As companies and their staff become more security-aware and, in some cases, legally accountable for security breaches, system administrators are starting to see automated Linux kernel live patching as the missing link in their system security profiles. Despite the disadvantages, a system with live patching is safer than one without.

Rewriting an application code for performance optimization generally requires a significant amount of effort. Also, IT and development groups using third-party applications like Tableau may not have access to the application code. Heimdall’s database proxy solution offers a flexible and cost-effective alternative to rewriting your application for performance and scale. Heimdall transparently provides SQL control and visibility to the application owner without (re)writing a single line of code.

For SaaS companies responsible for data collection and processing on behalf of multiple organizations, privacy is a core requirement and a competitive differentiator. Knowing the answers to these questions is critical to meeting data management, security, and privacy requirements. WireWheel is a group of privacy experts, data scientists, and business leaders that have set out to help companies meet this challenge.

The inherent complexities for running cloud-native applications such as Kubernetes, especially in a multi-cluster environment, are growing. Alcide Advisor creates a snapshot of your cluster’s security and compliance posture with actionable recommendations to ensure no security drifts are detected only in runtime. Alcide Advisor allows DevOps and security teams to discover misplaced secrets or secret access, identify Kubernetes vulnerabilities and perform HAQM EKS cluster checks.

We are excited to highlight 79 APN Partners that received new designations in May 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.