AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog

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.

Blockdaemon’s Builder Vault addresses the challenge of securing high-value cryptographic operations for digital assets using Multi-Party Computation (MPC) and AWS Nitro Enclaves. By splitting cryptographic operations across multiple independent parties, Builder Vault enables organizations to implement granular access controls and enforce multi-party governance without exposing private keys at any point in their lifecycle. The solution provides institutional-grade digital asset management through a distributed architecture that makes unauthorized access significantly more challenging while maintaining operational flexibility.

Discover how Amplitude’s integration with Amazon Bedrock enables AI-powered product analytics to help organizations automatically detect user friction points, recommend solutions, and implement changes in real time. Learn how this AWS Partner solution transforms analytics from a reactive to proactive process, helping teams drive product growth through automated insights and experimentation. Amplitude has collaborated with AWS to introduce Amplitude AI Agents powered by Amazon Bedrock, transforming traditional product analytics into an automated, proactive process that helps organizations bridge the gap between detecting user behavior issues and taking action. The solution enables product teams to automatically identify friction points, optimize marketing campaigns in real time, and scale experimentation without increasing headcount, while freeing data teams to focus on strategic initiatives rather than routine analysis.

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.

The AWS Ambassador Program welcomed 19 new AWS experts in Q1 2025 across seven regions. 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.

We are excited to highlight 224 AWS Partners that received new or renewed specializations 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.