AWS Rolls out Retail Competency

Amazon Web Services has rolled out its AWS Retail Competency for retail customers looking for highly specialized APN Partners offering retail technology on AWS. The designation is intended to help customers streamline the process of identifying, vetting, and highlighting industry specialized APN Partners who have proven success and deep technical capabilities when it comes to retail.

Partners holding this competency have undergone multiple levels of technical validations and deep-dives into their security practices and solution architectures with AWS Solution Architects, to ensure proper alignment with AWS’ best practices.

Most of the partners have demonstrated expertise with newer technologies and disciplines such as data lakes, AI/ML, Voice, IoT, microservices, and retail transformation.

Meanwhile, AWS has also rolled out a series of workshops aimed at helping partners to increase customer engagement in areas such as database migration, artificial intelligence, machine learning, containers, security, compliance, and IoT.

Channel Impact^®
Both announcements were part of a series of rollouts intended to help increase channel technical and engagement skills.