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Delve into Liveline Technologies and its provision of factory-scale automation for manufacturers. Liveline Technologies swiftly generate AI-based controllers, adjusting equipment parameters in real-time across entire production lines. Learn how it leveraged support from the AWS SaaS Factory team to develop solutions that yield tangible benefits for customers, reducing scrap, waste, and energy usage while enhancing product quality, minimizing unplanned downtime, and boosting productivity.

At AWS, we believe our partners are well-positioned to support specialized customer needs, either through providing consultative support or specialty business applications with integrated generative AI capabilities. This is why we are introducing the Generative AI Center of Excellence (CoE) for AWS Partners. It’s a digital experience open to all partners within the AWS Partner Network (APN). Learn how the CoE delivers optimized learning paths to implement generative AI solutions for customers.

Through the newly-introduced Generative AI Center of Excellence for AWS Partners, we are excited to share perspective on many of these questions. AWS recently sat down for a Q&A session with McKinsey & Company Senior Partner Naveen Sastry to talk about generative AI opportunities and best practices in implementation. Noted in these whitepapers is the $4 trillion of economic value that could be enabled by generative AI, and the Q&A below delves into the direct implications and how companies can capture value.

In September 2023, AWS commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact (TEI) study to examine the potential business opportunity and return on investment (ROI) that Channel Partners can realize by building and scaling an AWS Marketplace practice. Learn about the study’s framework and key findings, including potential revenue opportunities, benefits, costs, and best practices associated with reselling third-party software, data, and offering professional services in AWS Marketplace.

Hear from Ross Humphrey, Rebura’s Head of Software Development, about their journey to achieving the SaaS Competency by leveraging various programs such as SaaS Discovery and SaaS Competency On-Ramp. We’ll also review a SaaS on AWS customer story for sports technology company ai.io, dive deep on key lessons learned, and learn how other SIs can quickly build AWS SaaS capabilities to better serve customers.

Migrating workloads to the cloud is a transformative journey that requires careful planning, expertise, and understanding of an organization’s readiness. AWS Partners have several options to conduct a cloud readiness consulting assessment for their customers, including a cloud readiness assessment which is a fundamental step in assisting customers with their migration to the cloud. Learn how the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework can be used while assessing a business’s readiness to the cloud.

The AWS Ambassador Program is a vibrant worldwide community of AWS experts from AWS Partner Network (APN) Services and Software Partners. They are prominent leaders who are passionate about sharing their AWS expertise, and we’re honored to recognize this year’s top AWS Ambassadors for their outstanding performance and exemplary business impact and thought leadership. We also recognize the AWS Ambassador Certification All-Stars who have shown technical depth by holding all active AWS Certifications.

We are excited to highlight 177 AWS Partners that received new or renewed designations in September for our global AWS Service Delivery, AWS Competency, AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP), 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.

Explore ways that AWS Partners can create more revenue streams for their business by leveraging various AWS solutions, tools, and programs that enable customers to modernize and take advantage of the agility and innovation of AWS cloud-native technologies. We’ll also highlight two AWS Partners, SourceFuse and Kloia, who describe how modernizing Microsoft workloads on AWS has helped them grow and sustain their practices by improving recurring revenue, increasing profitability, and creating additional revenue streams.

Many customers continue their cloud adoption journey by modernizing and optimizing workloads to reap benefits by leveraging AWS managed services. To help their customers realize the modernization goals, AWS built new training courses and learning journeys exclusively for AWS Partners. The new digital course “Using Modernization Pathways to Modernize on AWS” is accessible via AWS Skill Builder and provides an overview of all six modernization pathways and where they fit in the migration landscape.