AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog

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AWS Partner Guide to AI Agents and Tools in AWS Marketplace

AWS Marketplace announces AI Agents and Tools, offering hundreds of agent solutions including pre-built agents, agent tools, and professional services to help enterprises adopt and govern autonomous systems. Partners can now leverage new API-based and container-based delivery methods to package and scale their AI agent solutions directly to AWS customers.

Auto-Generate Secure and Standardized IaC for AWS services with StackGen

Platform teams must balance rapid development with secure and compliant infrastructure in cloud computing environments. StackGen, an AWS Advanced Technology Partner, offers a solution that transforms manually created cloud environments into repeatable Infrastructure as Code while automatically enforcing security policies. The platform helps organizations reduce provisioning time by 75% while maintaining complete security coverage through automated policy enforcement and standardized templates.

Celebrating Innovation: Announcing the 2025 Amazon Nova Partner Demo Competition Winners

At the 2025 Amazon Nova Partner Demo Competition, AWS Partners showcased innovative solutions using Amazon Nova foundation models to address customer challenges across industries. The competition highlighted Partners’ focus on Healthcare & Life Sciences and Financial Services sectors, leveraging Nova’s advanced AI capabilities.

Showcase Your Expertise with New AWS Specialization Badge Categories

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.

Announcing 2025 AWS Partner Award Nominations

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.

New Categories and Enhanced Benefits for AWS Government Competency Partners

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.

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.