12 AWS Partners With New Statuses And Competencies

‘In a world where every company is becoming a technology company, we must have the skillset and experience desired, so customers can deploy software fast, and with little manual intervention,’ says Innovative Solutions CEO Justin Copie.

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Los Angeles’ Mission and Woburn, Mass.-based Privo have joined the short list of AWS Premier Consulting Partners in the Amazon Web Services Partner Network (APN) for their expertise and success in helping customers design, architect, build, migrate and manage their workloads on AWS.

APN Premier Consulting Partners undergo an approval process that includes accreditations and certifications, evidence of a long-term investment in AWS and extensive skills in deploying customer solutions on AWS. They also must have a strong team of AWS-trained and -certified technical consultants and deep expertise in project management and professional services.

Here’s a look at Mission’s and Privo’s new statuses, along with 10 other technology companies that have achieved new AWS designations.

Mission Earns Premier Consulting Partner Status

Mission’s promotion to AWS Premier Consulting Partner recognizes the work by its AWS solutions architects, engineers and consultants in the two years since its founding in 2017, according to CEO Simon Anderson. It will allow the managed service provider to leverage a broader range of AWS programs, including funding for customer consulting, migrations and greenfield builds, he said.

Mission offers strategy consulting, migrations, architecture, solution design, security and governance, cost optimization, DevOps implementation and application performance management.

“Mission holds a deep belief in – and commitment to – the power of AWS to drive future-proof cloud transformations,” Anderson said. “With deep expertise across the ever-expanding ecosystem of AWS services, we’ve been able to consistently deliver performance and cost-efficiency gains that are critical to achieving our customers’ technical and business goals.”

Mission has AWS competencies in healthcare, life sciences and DevOps, and its cloud consultants and solutions architects have more than 100 AWS certifications.

Privo Promoted To Premier Consulting Partner

Privo is a new AWS Premier Consulting Partner specializing in migrations, managed DevOps, Amazon WorkSpaces and cost optimization focusing solely on AWS.

"This is a validation of years of hard work to build our AWS expertise to better help our customers achieve their technology goals by leveraging the agility, breadth of services and pace of innovation that AWS technology and services offer,” founder Nick Underwood said.

Privo also recently added an AWS End User Computing Competency for its abilities in provisioning, protecting and getting intelligence from end-point devices, end-user apps and data on AWS. It also has AWS competencies in DevOps and life sciences, and is a member of the AWS Well-Architected Review and AWS Solution Provider programs.

Onix Achieves Advanced Consulting Partner Status

Onix has earned AWS Advanced Consulting Partner status in recognition of its cloud architects and engineers attaining AWS certifications and accreditations and its experience in AWS solutions deployments and helping its commercial and public-sector customers undergo digital transformation.

"From day one of our partner journey, we built our AWS practice organically, starting with our exceptional team of seasoned architects, engineers and practice managers,” Tim Needles, CEO of the Lakewood, Ohio-based cloud solutions provider, said. “We passed multiple daunting technical certifications to prove our expertise, and we're leveraging the breadth and depth of AWS with Onix's deep understanding of application modernization to solve customer issues.”

Onix has Canadian offices in Toronto and Ottawa and a presence in the San Francisco Bay area and cities including Atlanta, Austin, Texas, Boston, Chicago and New York.

Autonomic Attains Advanced Technology Partner Status

Autonomic, the creator of the Transportation Mobility Cloud (TMC), has obtained AWS Advanced Technology Partner status for its demonstrated expertise in building and operating connected mobility solutions.

Autonomic, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ford Smart Mobility, said its new status is testament to the ability of its TMC to transform the way automotive customers and partners develop connected vehicle cloud services. It created the TMC as a platform for the future of mobility by providing vehicle connectivity, real-time data ingestion and normalization, and developer-friendly application programming interfaces for businesses to connected applications for transportation. The TMC will connect the diverse components of urban mobility systems -- connected vehicles, mass transit, pedestrians, city infrastructure and service providers -- with the goal of orchestrating a safer, more efficient and sustainable transportation network.

“Our relationship with AWS expands the opportunity to deliver some of the best experiences to Ford vehicles and our other mobility customers,” says Imtiaz Jaffer, head of platform partnerships at the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company.

In April, Ford Motor Company, Autonomic, and AWS announced they would collaborate on advancing vehicle connectivity and mobility experiences.

Innovative Solutions Gets AWS DevOps, End User Competencies

Innovative Solutions has obtained AWS DevOps competency for its work helping customers to implement continuous integration and delivery practices and automate infrastructure provisioning and management with configuration management tools on AWS.

The Rochester, N.Y., company, which works with small to medium-sized businesses, specializes in cloud migrations, application development and consulting services

"We love the fact that we've been able to help so many customers achieve higher levels of efficiency and quality through leveraging DevOps services available through AWS," CEO Justin Copie said. "In a world where every company is becoming a technology company, we must have the skillset and experience desired, so customers can deploy software fast, and with little manual intervention. We live in an era where automation and the ability to streamline application deployment is critical."

The APN Advanced Consulting Partner also recently earned an AWS End User Computing Competency, which recognizes its work with customers that need to provision, protect and get intelligence from end-point devices, end-user apps and data on AWS. Partners with this competency provide services and offerings to help customers with strategy, professional services, infrastructure management and optimization of end user compute technologies on AWS, including Amazon WorkSpaces, Amazon AppStream 2.0 and Amazon WorkLink.

Securonix Scores AWS Security Competency Status

Securonix, which specializes in next-generation security information and event management (SIEM), now has an AWS Security Competency for its cloud SIEM solution and its track record in delivering SEIM as a service on AWS.

The AWS Security Competency highlights Securonix as an APN member that offers specialized software to help organizations adopt, develop and deploy complex security projects on AWS.

Built on an open Hadoop platform, Securonix Cloud SIEM is designed to address security challenges with a horizontally scalable multi-tenant architecture, analytics and threat detection, and automated incident response capabilities to allow organizations to detect, prioritize and remediate risks in their cloud and hybrid environments.

“The major pain point organizations have with SIEM solutions is the time, effort and expertise required to deploy and maintain them,” said Derrick Harcey, chief architect of the Addison, Texas, company. “Delivered as a service, Securonix Cloud SIEM is fully managed and maintained by the Securonix cloud operations team. (It) is optimized to ingest and analyze data from any cloud and on-premises data source in order to enable organizations to rapidly detect and respond to advanced threats.”

Candid Partners’ Bawcom Joins APN Ambassador Program

Candid Partners chief technology officer and chief architect Aaron Bawcom is now a member of the APN Ambassador Program, AWS’ community of technical experts among APN Consulting Partners who share their knowledge through public presentations, open source projects and social media.

Bawcom has more than 20 years of expertise leading and advising the digital transformation of commercial enterprises.

“Participation will help reinforce Candid Partners as a leader in the cloud community, and we're excited to show the industry our continued growth and commitment to scaling the company nationally,” Bawcom said

Atlanta-based Candid Partners is a cloud technology and management consulting firm. An AWS Public Sector Partner, it has AWS competencies in migration and DevOps.

NRGene Now An AWS Advanced Technology Partner

NRGene, an artificial intelligence (AI) genomic solutions company, has joined the APN as an Advanced Technology Partner.

The San Diego and Ness Ziona, Israel-based company provides genomic solutions to agriculture breeding companies to improve yields for food and biomaterials.

“With global challenges such as population growth and climate change, companies must learn to grow more with fewer resources,” said Guy Kol, NRGene’s senior vice president of strategic alliances. “By leveraging the power of AWS, we can provide services like whole genome analysis in almost real-time in a secure and cost-efficient manner.”

Tamr Lands Advanced Technology Partner Status

Tamr, a Cambridge, Mass.-based enterprise-scale data unification company, has achieved AWS Advanced Technology Partner status and the AWS Machine Learning Competency.

Tamr's flagship data unification software also is now available on AWS Marketplace. It’s been purpose-built to harness the power of machine learning to make it easy to integrate, master and categorize diverse, dirty data. Tamr says its agile master data management tools combine, consolidate, and classify siloed enterprise data using human-guided machine learning to fuel digital transformation with clean, trusted data.

Tamr customers include Toyota, Societe Generale, GE, Thomson Reuters and GlaxoSmithKline.

Coalfire Is Launch Partner For New Authority To Operate Program

Westminster, Colo.-based Coalfire, a cybersecurity advisory and assessment services firm, was chosen as one of 24 launch partners for the Authority to Operate (ATO) on AWS partner program.

ATO on AWS is an APN program that provides resources to solution providers running on AWS that need assistance in compliance authorization. It connects them to AWS partners that can help them integrate better strategies and tools such as automation, DevOps, SecOps and continuous integration/continuous delivery into their security and compliance platforms and processes to expedite the path to authorization.

Coalfire is assisting AWS customers with security automation strategies for frameworks including the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement, Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard and Service Organization Control. For its first use case, it leveraged AWS Security Orchestration and Automation methodology to help New York fintech company Innovest Systems achieve audit-ready FedRAMP status in less than six months, compared to the average 18 months to 24 months, according to Coalfire.

CIS Is Launch Partner For Authority To Operate On AWS Program

The Center for Internet Security (CIS) is another launch partner for the Authority to Operate on AWS program.

CIS, a nonprofit that operates out of East Greenbush, NY, helped AWS develop the AWS Security Automation and Orchestration methodology that allows AWS customers to constrain, track and publish continuous risk treatments. Using CIS Hardened Images -- Amazon Machine Images pre-configured to meet the security recommendations of the CIS Benchmarks, which are consensus-based configuration standards for technologies – is an important part of ATO on AWS, according to CIS.

"Our partnership within the ATO on AWS will have multiple benefits for our customers, including improving cloud security and reducing time to develop a compliant environment," said Curtis Dukes, executive vice president of CIS’ security best practices and automation group.

Cazena Is Launch Partner For AWS ISV Workload Migration Program

Data lake-as-a-service company Cazena was selected as a technology launch partner for AWS’ ISV Workload Migration Program that helps customers migrate independent software vendor (ISV) workloads to the AWS cloud.

The Waltham, Mass.-based Cazena said it worked with AWS to build a repeatable migration process playbook. An Advanced Technology Partner in the APN, Cazena's Data Lake as a Service with Cloudera is delivered as a private, production-ready software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering on AWS with built-in automation.

"Our SaaS experience and built-in automated DevOps help enterprises get faster outcomes from data and analytics in the cloud, without having to add data or DevOps skills," said Prat Moghe, the founder and CEO of Cazena.