work with a Amazon's AWS Cloud Partner brings direct benefits to companies such as expertise, proximity, simplicity, continuous optimization and security. The Amazon Partner Network is an international partnership initiative for technology and consulting companies that leverage the technology provided by Amazon Web Services to create services and achieve solutions for their clients.
Whether you're just starting your business or expanding operations, choosing a partner for your company is an important step, but it can be a little difficult. On the one hand, there are thousands of people who already offer services based on AWS. On the other hand, there are customers looking for APN Partners who have skills to work with specific AWS (Amazon Web Services) technology that not all partners can have.
So the Amazon Partner Network program helps customers find consulting and technology companies as an AWS Cloud Partner to establish, promote, market, and grow successful cloud businesses by providing resources to improve services for customers; Resources cover the areas of business, technology, and marketing.
AWS Cloud Partner Types
For the aforementioned, need to understand the different types and valuation levels that Amazon gives to its AWS Cloud Partners. The core business of the company is and will be innovation. AWS focuses on qualifying and recognizing companies and the services, tools, processes and infrastructure they offer to their customers and that keeps them at the top of all cloud rankings in the world.
By AWS Certification Level
- AWS Select Service Tier Partners are Partners that have trained and certified personnel, as well as experience with clients. This is the level that Amazon Web Services recognizes is valued according to the amount of skills, talents, and courses that the development team has.
- AWS Advanced Service Tier Partners they are partners with a strong team of technically-savvy individuals who have been trained and certified, and who have proven experience working with customers. At this point, in addition to the technical evaluations of the development teams, the quality of their attention to their collaborators is also recognized.
- AWS Premier Service Tier Partners they are the most experienced partners and recognized as leaders in their respective geographic, vertical or horizontal markets. They have extensive technical expertise with multiple partner program validations and have proven success working with large numbers of clients at a scale that few competitors can.
For the type of service they offer
Partners like AWS Cloud Partner provide services in two main areas: consulting and technology. Therefore, depending on your business profile and area of expertise, you should select either an APN Consulting Partner or an APN Technology Partner. If your business covers both consulting and technology areas, it is up to you to choose the one that is best for you.
- APN Consulting Partners are companies that provide customer services, such as design, development, migration and administration jobs and applications on AWS. They are mostly strategic advisors, value-added resellers, managed service providers, and network integrators.
- APN Technology Partners They specialize in software solutions hosted or integrated with AWS programs. Technology partners are typically independent software vendors, SaaS and PaaS providers, management and security providers, etc.
5 Benefits of working with an AWS Partner
Expertise
Considering that Amazon Web Services (AWS) allows us to freely access any available resource within the most comprehensive network in the world, with the help of an AWS Cloud Partner, we can create almost any service in the cloud.
After discussing your needs and project details, one of these partners can help you tailor your projects to meet the 100% with its objectives. There will be no cutbacks or compromises, just the functionality and quality you are looking for. And since we not only have the tools but also the experience, this means you won't get anything redundant or superfluous either. We will save you time and money.
Contact
The software you need can be a large and complete project that encompasses numerous technologies and uses, so you need constant communication with the development team. If you choose to work with a developer who is not certified with Amazon Web Services, you may need to add different types of additional software or outsource to more people who are specialized or have access to specific niche technologies. This, in turn, means that you may need to keep in touch with numerous entities and coordinate their efforts. Well not here.
An AWS Cloud Partner can become a single point of contact for your entire multi-tiered project. This gives you the advantage of being easily informed about anything, having the coordination in charge, and also having someone easily spot and fix any issues before they actually arise.
Focus
This advantage follows directly from the previous two. You can be sure that a AWS Cloud Partner will cover all the necessary bases of your project for you, and this gives you the ability to focus on what you really need to do. We'll manage your software development and let you know about the vision, progress, or hiccups along the way, if any. You can get back to your duties and avoid dividing your attention or resources.
Optimization
With software, the development journey never ends. You must constantly update your solutions to stay ahead of technological advances or threats. When you work with an AWS Cloud Partner, you get exactly that. We continue to optimize the software to accommodate the ever-changing IT space, and changing user behavior as well. If you see a need arise within your user base for a new type of functionality, or even an update to the visuals to keep up with the zeitgeist, we've got you covered.
The important thing is that we don't just react, we act in advance. We detect opportunities and threats and prepare you for them, meeting both your technological and commercial objectives.
Security
Partners like an AWS Cloud Partner with AWS Security Competencies specialize in delivering security-focused solutions for your specific workloads and use cases. AWS partner solutions enable automation and agility, as well as scale with your workloads. Easily find, purchase, deploy, and manage these cloud-ready software solutions, including Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products, in minutes from AWS Marketplace. These solutions work together to help secure your data in ways that aren't possible on-premises, with solutions available for a wide range of workloads and use cases.
We're not saying you shouldn't. But the chance of it being a beneficial step for your company is relatively low. If you don't have a need to constantly take on new software projects, having an in-house development team is probably a waste of money in the long run. And assembling a team for a single project is also a huge task: you have to find people, hire them, train them to work together, get the tools… Well, you get the idea.
An AWS Cloud Partner can take care of your project right away, without the additional commitment of time and money. And with access to the best knowledge base and technology out there. If you need new solutions very quickly and very badly, we'd say that's the way to go.
When you find that you're not spending your money in the most efficient way, you have an opportunity to reassess your budget in a better way. Perhaps instead of investing in a team dedicated to implementing this technology, you find that you want to budget more money for management and growth.
In Codster, we can be your ally in the development and implementation as an AWS Cloud Partner to exploit the potential of your company, creating technological solutions tailored to your needs. If you want to know more, do not hesitate to contact us.
