AWS Ecosystem

Free resources

• AWS Blogs: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/

• AWS Forums (community): https://forums.aws.amazon.com/index.jspa

• AWS Whitepapers & Guides: https://aws.amazon.com/whitepapers

• AWS Partner Solutions (formerly Quick Starts): https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart/

  • Automated, gold-standard deployments in the AWS Cloud

  • Build your production environment quickly with templates

  • Example: WordPress on AWS https://fwd.aws/P3yyv?did=qs_card&trk=qs_card

  • Leverages CloudFormation

• AWS Solutions: https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/

  • Vetted Technology Solutions for the AWS Cloud

  • Example - AWS Landing Zone: secure, multi-account AWS environment

    • https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/implementations/aws-landing-zone/

    • “Replaced” by AWS Control Tower

AWS Support

AWS Marketplace

• Digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors (3rd party)

• Example:

  • Custom AMI (custom OS, firewalls, technical solutions...)

  • CloudFormation templates

  • Software as a Service

  • Containers

• If you buy through the AWS Marketplace, it goes into your AWS bill

• You can sell your solutions on the AWS Marketplace

AWS Training

• AWS Digital (online) and ClassroomTraining (in-person or virtual)

• AWS Private Training (for your organization)

• Training and Certification for the U.S Government

• Training and Certification for the Enterprise

• AWS Academy: helps universities teach AWS

• And your favorite online teacher... teaching you all about AWS Certifications and more!

AWS Professional Services & Partner Network

• The AWS Professional Services organization is a global team of experts

• They work alongside your team and a chosen member of the APN

• APN = AWS Partner Network

• APN Technology Partners: providing hardware, connectivity, and software

• APN Consulting Partners: professional services firm to help build on AWS

• APN Training Partners: find who can help you learn AWS

• AWS Competency Program: AWS Competencies are granted to APN Partners who have demonstrated technical proficiency and proven customer success in specialized solution areas.

• AWS Navigate Program: help Partners become better Partners

AWS Knowledge Center

• Contains the most frequent & common questions and requests

AWS IQ

• Quickly find professional help for your AWS projects

• Engage and pay AWS Certified 3rd party experts for on-demand project work

• Video-conferencing, contract management, secure collaboration, integrated billing

• For Customers

• For Experts

AWS re:Post

• AWS-managed Q&A service offering crowd-sourced, expert-reviewed answers to your technical questions about AWS that replaces the original AWS Forums

• Part of the AWS Free Tier

• Community members can earn reputation points to build up their community expert status by providing accepted answers and reviewing answers from other users

• Questions from AWS Premium Support customers that do not receive a response from the community are passed on to AWS Support engineers

• AWS re:Post is not intended to be used for questions that are time-sensitive or involve any proprietary information

AWS Managed Services (AMS)

• Provides infrastructure and application support on AWS.

• AMS offers a team of AWS experts who manage and operate your infrastructure for security, reliability, and availability

• Helps organizations offload routine management tasks and focus on their business objectives.

• Fully managed service, so AWS handles common activities such as change requests, monitoring, patch management, security, and backup services

• Implements best practices and maintains your AWS infrastructure to reduce your operational overhead and risk

• AMS business hours are 24/365