Enhancements to the AWS Partner Experience
We learned about new enhancements to the Amazon Partner Network that aim to make the partner experience top-notch. Looking forward to 2024, the Amazon Partner Network aims to invest more in multi-partner collaborations. Next, they aim to standardize collaboration, solution development, and GTM processes with the Strategic Collaboration Agreement.
Caylent has already seen the impact of this through their own Strategic Collaboration Agreement agreement signed in July of this year. Another enhancement includes changes to the Migration Acceleration Program (MAP). The enhancement aims to simplify the experience for partners, streamline funding approval processes, right-sizing the investment for lift-and-shift migrations, and many other additional incentives.
Simplifying the MAP process is key for our customers who want a simplified experience when engaging with us for their migration projects.
Generative AI Center of Excellence
As with most of the keynotes this week, GenerativeAI announcements took center stage. Dr. Borno's discussion was no different. The AWS Partner Network has released the GenerativeAI Center of Excellence, which aims to be a place for AWS Partners to reference the growing use cases surrounding GenerativeAI.
Increasing demand for specialized capabilities presents itself at even the most mature enterprises. The ability to quickly implement and realize business outcomes is crucial for businesses in a rapidly changing market. The Generative AI Center of Excellence will help enable partners to obtain the detailed education and training resources that need to be able to create and deliver solutions to customers
By using the Generative AI Center of Excellence, partners can now familiarize themselves with GenAI offerings that will help them maximize customer outcomes. Leaders across the Amazon Partner Network provided their specialized information to help us further understand the dynamic Generative AI landscape and the considerations we must understand to be effective.
The increased demand for specialized skills cannot be disregarded. The Generative AI Center of Excellence hosts both technical and non-technical specialized content that showcases the latest developments and insights around generative AI. It contains optimized learning paths that will help AWS partners in their journey to implement revolutionary solutions.
Most notably, it will provide insights into third-party foundation models (FMs), applications, and developer tools to support the diverse business needs of mutual customers. The center of excellence shares unique industry perspectives and differing approaches to developing and deploying artificial intelligence. We were thrilled to learn that long-time Caylent customer Boston Consulting Group is one of its many content contributors!
Finally, the Generative AI Center of Excellence will be complemented by forums that facilitate AWS and partner knowledge sharing and the development of joint thought leadership, collectively advancing the thinking and applications of generative AI for our joint customers.
The information, insights, and engagement provided by this release is important to our customers because it underscores the idea that AWS is committed to providing its partners like Caylent with the tools and training to help deliver innovative GenerativeAI solutions at every layer.
Chris Gonzalez
