AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog
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Securing AI: AWS Marketplace and Partner Solutions from Adoption to Protection
Forty-five percent of IT decision-makers rank generative AI tools as their top budget priority for 2025. Explore how AWS Partners help organizations secure their AI initiatives through comprehensive security solutions that address data privacy, model integrity, and emerging AI-specific vulnerabilities.
AWS Partners enhance cloud security with new IAM Access Analyzer internal access findings
AWS has launched internal access findings, a new feature of IAM Access Analyzer that uses automated reasoning to evaluate policies and generate findings when users have access to critical AWS resources like S3, DynamoDB, and RDS. Several AWS Security Competency Partners, including Cyera, Orca Security, Ping Identity, Saviynt, and Wiz, are integrating this new capability into their solutions to help customers enhance visibility, streamline compliance, and strengthen access controls across their AWS environments.
Updates to the AWS MSSP Competency: Deliver Turnkey Security Solutions for Customers
We’re introducing new categories for the AWS MSSP Competency (previously AWS Level 1 MSSP Competency) to help customers easily identify Partners with security expertise based on their unique needs. The new competency categories validate Partners’ abilities to deliver comprehensive security solutions through native AWS services and third-party integrations.
Accelerate Your Public Sector Practice: Updates and Key Partner Programs
Learn about the latest updates announced at AWS Summit Washington, DC, including enhanced Government Competency benefits and new Partner Transformation Program modules. Discover key programs and resources designed to help AWS Partners build, market, and grow their public sector practice—from co-selling opportunities to digital sovereignty solutions.
Meet Our New AWS Ambassadors from Q1 2025 and Explore Latest Activities
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.
Transforming IT Operations with BMC HelixGPT on AWS
BMC’s HelixGPT, combined with Amazon Web Services, can transform IT operations by reducing Mean Time To Repair (MTTR) and enhancing decision-making processes.
Location Intelligence for Sustainable Transportation on AWS
Discover how HERE Technologies and AWS are revolutionizing sustainable transportation and logistics through advanced location intelligence. This blog explores how cutting-edge location based solutions, built on AWS, optimize fleet operations, reduce emissions, and improve efficiency. Learn about smart route optimization, real-time tracking, and weather-informed decision-making that can help businesses achieve up to 20% reduction in route times, fuel costs, and carbon footprint while meeting the demands of a global economy.
Running GenAI Inference with AWS Graviton and Arcee AI Models
The growing demand for generative AI (GenAI) applications has led to a corresponding demand for compute resources that can run these workloads efficiently. In this post we share a step-by-step guide for optimizing GenAI inference workloads using AWS Graviton-based instances. We walk you through downloading Arcee AI SLMs, applying quantization techniques, and deploying models for efficient inference on AWS Graviton instances.
Streamline Unified Data Governance with AWS Lake Formation and Dremio
Data governance becomes increasingly important for Customers building large data lakes on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to democratize their access to data. AWS Lake Formation provides fine-grained data access permissions for AWS services like Amazon Redshift, Amazon Athena, and Amazon EMR. Dremio supports AWS Lake Formation data governance framework to create a consistent governance model for enterprise customers.
How to strengthen Cloud Security with Pulumi ESC and AWS Secrets Manager
Modern organizations face challenges managing secrets across multiple environments, leading to security risks and operational complexities due to secrets sprawl across various storage locations and systems. Pulumi ESC provides a comprehensive solution by acting as a secure broker between applications and secrets providers, offering centralized control, robust Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), and seamless integration with cloud services like AWS Secrets Manager and Systems Manager Parameter Store, ultimately helping organizations enhance security while maintaining developer productivity.