AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog

The 2025 AWS Partner Awards honor partners who have demonstrated outstanding results and innovation with the use of AWS products and solutions. AWS Partners can self-nominate themselves to be considered across a select number of AWS Partner Award categories. Award submissions will be reviewed by a third-party and selected with special emphasis placed on customer success use cases presented in the nomination form. All nominations must be submitted by 11:59 PM PDT on August 15, 2025.

AWS Specialization badges now include categories, allowing Partners to better showcase their validated expertise and helping customers more easily identify Partners with specific capabilities that match their business needs. The new category listing feature is seamlessly integrated into the “Create New Badge” process within Badge Manager in AWS Partner Central.

Effective aftermarket management can boost revenue, profitability, and customer loyalty for equipment manufacturers. Syncron’s Service Lifecycle Management platform addresses challenges like siloed operations and high costs by consolidating aftermarket activities on AWS. This unified approach aligns decision-making, enhances agility, and enables data-driven insights across departments. The platform offers instant data access, analytics capabilities, and the ability to create custom data products, transforming raw data into actionable intelligence that drives efficiency and profitability in aftermarket operations.

PTC Kepware+ and AWS are transforming industrial operations by connecting factory floor data to cloud analytics. This integration solves the challenge of fragmented systems and data silos in manufacturing. The blog showcases specific results: a global automotive manufacturer cut downtime by 40%, while an energy provider improved wind farm performance by 15% at half the cost. Learn how the Kepware+ and AWS architecture delivers predictive maintenance, real-time monitoring, and automated responses across industrial operations. See how manufacturers are using this solution to modernize their facilities and drive measurable business results.

Discover how Superna Defender helps protect your AWS cloud storage from ransomware and cyber threats. Learn about real-time monitoring, threat detection, and automated recovery features that safeguard your Amazon S3 and Amazon FSx for Windows File server storage resources while maintaining compliance with cybersecurity frameworks.

We are excited to highlight 268 AWS Partners that received new or renewed specializations in June 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 post highlights how AWS partners are developing a diverse range of solutions for the new AWS European Sovereign Cloud, from data analytics and AI to security and DevOps tools, ensuring European organizations can innovate while maintaining strict data sovereignty within EU borders.

The blog introduces a five-layer Generative AI Landing Zone architecture on AWS that helps organizations quickly implement and scale AI capabilities while maintaining security and compliance standards. The solution addresses key challenges like compliance delays, pilot-to-production gaps, and limited visibility through features such as automated guardrails, same-day sandboxes, reusable blueprints, built-in observability, and continuous governance.

As enterprises shift toward cloud-first strategies, reliable and secure connectivity becomes a foundational requirement. Polarin by Lightstorm addresses this need with a software-defined, Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) platform built on AWS Direct Connect. It allows businesses to provision private, low-latency connections across cloud environments in minutes—delivering the agility, performance, and cost efficiency modern enterprises demand.

In today’s rapidly changing digital landscape, brands face challenges in delivering consistent personalized customer engagement across multiple communication channels. Discover how the integration between MoEngage’s platform, a leader in marketing analytics and journey orchestration with AWS Communication Developer Services (CDS) enables brands to create seamless and consistent customer experiences through personalized messaging.