Category: Announcements

The AWS Ambassador Program welcomed 19 new AWS experts in Q1 2025 across seven regions. 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.

We are excited to highlight 224 AWS Partners that received new or renewed specializations 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.

AWS announces the general availability of AWS Transform for mainframe, a new service that accelerates mainframe modernization using specialized AI agents. This blog showcases how AWS Partners are leveraging the service to streamline customer migrations, reducing transformation timelines from years to months while addressing traditional modernization challenges around speed, complexity, and skills gaps.

We are excited to highlight 194 AWS Partners that received new or renewed specializations in April 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.

This blog explores how Cloud Native Qumulo (CNQ) on AWS enables organizations to modernize and scale their cloud-based file storage infrastructure. By leveraging AWS’s cloud-native architecture, CNQ ensures compatibility across hybrid environments, providing cost-efficient, high-performance storage solutions for demanding workloads, including AI, HPC, and large-scale data management.

This blog post discusses how MongoDB has enhanced the indexing capabilities of its Atlas Search service by leveraging Amazon S3. The new approach allows MongoDB to significantly reduce the time required to rebuild search indexes, achieving a 14x improvement compared to the previous method. By periodically capturing snapshots of the search indexes in Amazon S3, MongoDB can quickly restore the latest index state during deployments, scaling, and recovery, improving search availability for customers.

We are excited to highlight 208 AWS Partners that received new or renewed specializations in March 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.

We are excited to highlight 150 AWS Partners that received new or renewed specializations in February 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.

Introducing the AWS Partner Profitability Framework, an intuitive and reliable way to maximize business value with the AWS Partner Network (APN). The AWS Partner Profitability Framework optimizes the partner journey to broaden the value and deepen expertise across various business models. According to a 2022 study conducted by Canalys, partners with a breadth of offerings can achieve a $6.40 multiplier per $1 AWS sold. 

New AWS research reveals that over 90% of customers plan to engage AWS Partners for generative AI deployment in the next 3 years. This comprehensive study of 1,000+ respondents across 24 industries provides insights into customer adoption patterns, buying journeys, and strategic priorities in the rapidly evolving generative AI landscape.