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Industry analyst firm Gartner has published its annual report evaluating cloud AI developer services, the 2022 Magic Quadrant for Cloud AI Developer Services (CAIDS). AWS was once again named a Leader and placed highest among 13 recognized vendors for “Ability to Execute.” Choosing the right provider for cloud AI developer services is critically important right now. AWS Partners can leverage this report with their customers to showcase the value that AWS will bring to them.

With support from AWS SaaS Factory, CHESA built and launched Acorn Cloud as a SaaS solution on AWS, allowing small and mid-size creative teams to create, edit, and deliver video content, while lowering the barrier of entry for access to collaboration tools as fully managed services. Hear from Lance Hukill, Chief Commercial Officer at CHESA, and about the value the new Acorn Cloud SaaS platform brings to customers.

AWS partners have asked us to do more to help them build analytics-driven applications, so we are excited to announce the launch of the ‘Powered by Amazon Redshift’ program. This program enables ISVs to build their applications using Amazon Redshift—our fully-managed cloud data warehouse service—and deliver fast, easy, and secure analytics at any scale available within their applications. With Amazon Redshift powering applications, ISVs can drive up to 3X price performance compared to any other cloud data warehouse.

This year marks the 10-year anniversary of the AWS Partner Network (APN). To celebrate this important milestone, we’re launching a series of partner transformation stories—“10 Years of Success”—highlighting some of our AWS Partners who have been “all in” and grown with us over the past decade. Up first in our Q&A-style series is Cloudsoft, an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner that helps businesses securely migrate, run, and evolve applications in the cloud.

AWS is excited to announce that 85 new, additional countries are now approved for the Commercial Channel Programs which consists of the AWS Solution Provider Program and AWS Distribution Program. This announcement means AWS Partners located in these countries are now allowed into our reseller programs, which greatly accelerates AWS’s ability to expand into these regions by several years. Authorized AWS Distributors already have coverage in 60 of the 85 newly-authorized countries.

Dalet is an AWS Partner and leading technology and service provider for media-rich organizations. We recently spoke with Mathieu Zarouk, Director of Product Marketing at Dalet, to learn more about the new Dalet Flex for teams SaaS solution and the value it brings to customers. We asked Mathieu to share insights from Dalet’s transition to SaaS that can help other software providers planning to adopt this delivery model.

To help organizations defend themselves against cyber threats, Anomali, a leader in intelligence-driven cybersecurity solutions, recently launched its cloud-native extended detection and response (XDR) solution, The Anomali Platform. The AWS SaaS Factory team spoke with Mark Alba, Chief Product Officer at Anomali, to learn more about Anomali Cloud-Native XDR SaaS, the value its new solution brings to customers, and the key lessons learned from the journey to SaaS on AWS.

We are excited to highlight 83 AWS Partners that received new designations 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.

For ePlus Technology, AWS GameDay was a golden opportunity for teams looking to transform their skills with AWS. GameDay is a collaborative learning exercise that tests skills in implementing AWS solutions to solve real-world problems. The gamified, risk-free environment provides a hands-on opportunity for technical professionals to explore AWS services, architecture patterns, best practices, and group cooperation.

With the help of AWS SaaS Factory, Varjo built and launched the new Varjo Reality Cloud platform as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution on Amazon Web Services (AWS), marking progress toward the company’s vision of bringing real-life collaboration into the metaverse. In this post, Aleksander Nyquist Langmyhr, Global Lead of Go-To-Market Strategy at Varjo, shares insights from Varjo’s transition to SaaS that can help other organizations planning to adopt this delivery model.