AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog

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.

We’re excited to introduce new categories for the AWS Government Competency, including citizen services, public safety, and defense and national security, along with new and enhanced benefits like exclusive Government Day events and expanded regional Competency Partner Leadership Circles to help Partners showcase specialized expertise and expand their reach in the government sector.

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 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.

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.

In today’s digital landscape, organizations face increasing challenges from ransomware and cyberattacks that can compromise business continuity and data integrity. The integration of AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery with the Elastio Ransomware Recovery Assurance Platform offers a comprehensive solution that combines rapid recovery capabilities with automated data integrity validation. This powerful combination ensures that recovery points are not only readily available but also verified to be free from ransomware encryption and data corruption, providing organizations with the confidence they need in their disaster recovery strategy.