AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog

Orca Security’s innovative Reachability Analysis solution addresses the growing challenge of vulnerability management in AWS environments, offering a critical response to the 34% year-over-year increase in vulnerability exploitation reported in 2025. The solution combines Agentless Reachability Analysis, utilizing patented SideScanning™ technology for deep static inspection, with Dynamic Reachability Analysis through their eBPF-based Orca Sensor, providing comprehensive visibility across AWS services including Amazon ECR, EC2, Lambda, ECS, and EKS. Through this dual approach, organizations can achieve a 90% reduction in exploitable vulnerabilities while significantly reducing alert fatigue, as the system intelligently distinguishes between truly exploitable vulnerabilities and those that pose minimal risk in production environments.

Decentralization of work and infrastructure in hybrid environments is leading to identity and access management challenges due to lack of centralized visibility and governance. In this blog, let’s learn how customers can solve these challenges and enhance their identity governance and security with Cisco Duo Identity Federation and advanced access management features. Cisco Duo seamlessly integrates with AWS IAM Identity Center and other identity sources and acts as an identity aggregator that efficiently routes user authentication to appropriate sources. This integrated solution delivers both improved security with end-to-end phishing resistance and AI-driven identity intelligence, and a simplified user experience through passwordless authentication.

Salesforce and AWS are accelerating agentic AI transformation by pioneering solutions that make advanced AI accessible, secure, and outcome-oriented through unified data access, interoperable AI agents, modernized contact centers, and streamlined procurement via AWS Marketplace. This decade-long collaboration empowers enterprises to confidently adopt agentic systems with the same trust they had moving to the cloud, delivering personalized, AI-powered experiences at scale.

Amazon Bedrock is now available for resale by AWS Channel Partners in the Solution Provider and Distribution programs, providing customers access to the fully managed generative AI service with foundation models from leading providers including AI21, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, and OpenAI.

AWS Generative AI Innovation Center launches Partner Innovation Alliance (PIA) ISV Pods, pairing ISVs with PIA partners to accelerate enterprise-grade generative AI solutions. This strategic program addresses growing demand for industry-specific and horizontal AI capabilities, focusing on agentic AI development. With structured enablement, expert guidance, and go-to-market support, ISV Pods are set to pioneer the next wave of AI innovation, transforming businesses across industries.

Tacnode Context Lake, built on AWS, powers real-time AI systems by providing instant access to unified, live data for AI applications. This technical post demonstrates how Tacnode leverages key AWS services to achieve sub-millisecond data access latency while maintaining enterprise-grade scalability and reliability for mission-critical AI operations.

As organizations execute digital transformations and cloud-first initiatives, cloud sprawl and unintentional resource expansion become critical challenges. Infoblox and AWS are partnering to help organizations optimize cloud costs and improve security through enhanced asset visibility. Learn how Infoblox Universal Asset Insights discovers and organizes AWS assets across accounts and regions, helping companies reduce cloud waste while strengthening their security posture.

Generative AI is rapidly transforming how enterprises operate, but security remains a critical concern. According to the Zscaler ThreatLabz 2025 AI Security Report, while AI/ML tool usage has surged 36x year-over-year, 60% of this traffic was blocked due to security concerns. This post demonstrates how AWS and Zscaler’s integrated security controls help protect AI workloads while maintaining compliance and data protection.

We are excited to highlight 295 AWS Partners that received new or renewed specializations in September 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.

Corbado’s Passkey Adoption Platform works with Amazon Cognito to create a high-adoption passkey experience, offering a phishing-resistant alternative to traditional passwords. Corbado provides optimized UI components, detailed analytics, and fine-grained management controls for passkey rollout. The solution helps organizations maximize passkey adoption across diverse user segments, minimize authentication recovery costs, and enable risk-controlled implementation.