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To help break down barriers and develop your cloud skills, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has created several methods to guide you on the correct learning journey, including learning plans, courses with different training styles, and a curated list of our most popular courses amongst AWS Partners. In this post, explore what training resonates with the thousands of partners already learning with AWS Partner Training and Certification.

Snowflake aspires to be a leader in environmental sustainability, and its goal is to provide the best data cloud with the lowest carbon footprint on the planet. Learn how Snowflake reduced its carbon emissions footprint and improved performance efficiency by transitioning virtual warehouses to AWS Graviton-based instance types. This enabled Snowflake to reduce the carbon intensity of workloads, so it can meet customer demand sustainably even as compute requirements continue to grow.

We are excited to highlight 176 AWS Partners that received new or renewed designations 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.

Over the years working with AWS Partners, we have learned that having a focused AWS practice helps partners be more successful in supporting our evolving mutual customer base. Learn how a dedicated AWS practice can be essential in getting the most out of your AWS Partner Network (APN) involvement, especially if your organization is on the Services Path. We’ll describe the five stages of a successful partner practice and offer insights into how to optimize your APN resources and benefits.

With more than 100,000 AWS Partners across the globe, how do you find the right partner for the right job? AWS Specializations help customers find a short list of trusted cloud partners with diverse expertise. Learn about the four programs that provide technical validation based on AWS services, workloads, use cases, industries, and managed services: Service Delivery, Service Ready, Competency, and Managed Service Provider (MSP).

If your organization requires a faster time to market for Internet of Things (IoT) applications, AWS Partners have flexible, pre-built solutions to help reduce risk while building the foundational elements that are required to deploy an IoT solution at scale. Businesses interested in deploying an IoT solution should carefully consider which AWS Partner will best fit their organization’s needs, keeping in mind a few key elements, including capabilities, tenancy, security and compliance, migration, and pricing.

The AWS Partner community is energized about the potential of generative AI, and we recognize there are unique considerations for bringing these applications into production for commercial use cases. Ruba Borno, VP, WW Channels & Alliances at AWS, shares why AWS Partners are an integral part in ensuring customers realize the full value of generative AI offerings. Working together, AWS and partners will be guiding the development of business innovations and solutions for customers of all sizes and industries.

We are excited to highlight 154 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 specializations 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’re proud to announce and acknowledge the ASEAN AWS Partners of 2023 that are helping customers accelerate innovation, develop industry-focused solutions, and build resilience amidst the ever-changing economic climate. As ASEAN businesses continue to navigate economic headwinds, AWS Partners play a pivotal role as strategic advisors and technology experts in helping customers innovate, reduce costs, and build industry-focused solutions on AWS.

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.