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Whether you’re taking the first steps toward planning your software-as-a-service (SaaS) journey, or about to launch your first product, the new Journey to SaaS guide is designed to help drive your efforts to build, migrate, secure, and optimize SaaS solutions on AWS. Use this roadmap to identify which stage you’re in and review the corresponding actions, motivations, questions, pain points, and AWS SaaS Factory resources.

AWS offers programs and benefits that help partners of all sizes transform and improve their customer experience. Learn more about the tools, mechanisms, resources, and technical paths available to AWS Partners that can help them dive deeper into their AWS relationship, identify superpowers, and make the most of the AWS resources and programs available to support continued growth and success. Take advantage of APN programs to help you grow your business and reach your target customers.

As organizations continue to build and migrate more of their applications in the cloud, ensuring websites and applications are protected from external threats has become a top concern for businesses of all shapes and sizes. We’re excited to announce the AWS WAF Ready specialization to help customers deploy and maintain their application layer security solution with AWS WAF Ready Partner software products.

AWS Partners are uniquely positioned to help customers take full advantage of all that AWS has to offer and accelerate their journey to the cloud. We’re excited to share a few stories to help you learn how customers around the world have accelerated their cloud adoption and fueled innovation by working with AWS Partners. Learn how Metal Toad keeps a top comic site safe for San-Diego Comic-Con, how Vodafone works with Esri to build a UK-wide digital twin on AWS, and more.

We are excited to highlight 143 AWS Partners that received new or renewed designations in March 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.

We’re excited to announce the AWS Manufacturing and Industrial Competency, which helps customers advance their time to results, optimize operations, seek new revenue streams, and/or generate sustainable business operations, while reducing their carbon footprint. Previously the AWS Industrial Software Competency, the expanded AWS Manufacturing and Industrial Competency includes new use case categories to further differentiate partners and help customers and sellers find the right solution for their business needs.

We’re excited to announce the AWS Media & Entertainment Competency, which helps customers accelerate their camera to screen cloud journey through the expertise of AWS Partners. AWS M&E Competency Partners have expertise with customers of all sizes—driving growth in areas like: broadcast, content production, direct to consumer, media supply chain and archive, and data science & analytics for media.

Construction companies sometimes utilize buildings’ own elevators during the construction phase, but during this time operating conditions are very different from normal elevator use. According to KONE’s studies, the first-year call-out rate of an elevator which has been used during construction time can be twice as high compared to an elevator which has not been used in construction. Learn how KONE’s construction time use solutions leverage AWS to support customers during the construction phase of any project.

VMware Cloud on AWS helps customers including enterprises, government entities, and startups migrate to the cloud 46% faster on average and at a 43% lower cost as compared to other solutions. AWS Partners that start a VMware Cloud on AWS practice can see anywhere from a 10-15% revenue lift in their overall services revenue. Learn how partners can grow their VMware Cloud on AWS practice through professional and managed services, modernization, AWS funding, and by expanding their customer base.

Today’s rapidly changing market conditions require organizations to scale IT operations swiftly and securely, while keeping costs under control. But setting up, running, and optimizing cloud infrastructure can be time-consuming and challenging. We’re excited to announce the AWS Cloud Operations Competency, to help customers adopt an integrated approach for cloud operations on AWS and beyond.