AWS Marketplace now provides new APIs for sellers, enabling independent software vendors (ISVs) and Channel Partners to build workflow integrations with AWS Marketplace for their AMI, SaaS, and Container products. With Catalog API, sellers can manage (create, update, and read) product listings, offers, and resale authorizations. With Agreements API, sellers can search and read agreements. Sellers can use the APIs to automate complex, high-volume, and business-critical transactions in AWS Marketplace, helping them save time and costs.

Today, AWS announces the general availability of SaaS Quick Launch, a new deployment option for software-as-a-service (SaaS) products in AWS Marketplace. SaaS Quick Launch enables customers to reduce the time and resources required to configure and launch third-party SaaS products on AWS. 

AWS Partner CRM Connector now provides a modular experience allowing partners to enable both AWS Marketplace and AWS Partner Central ACE Pipeline Manager feature capabilities. The AWS Marketplace feature can be utilized to publish and manage AWS Marketplace private offers and resale authorizations. The ACE Pipeline Manager feature supports a newly enhanced opportunity management data model for AWS Partner co-sell motions with AWS. You can now utilize a dashboard feature of the AWS Partner CRM connector to view a summary of AWS Marketplace private offers. The AWS Partner CRM Connector enables you to centralize your sales operations in Salesforce so field sales representatives can create and publish AWS Marketplace private offers themselves with the permissions you give them, all within familiar tooling.

We are excited to announce the launch of the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes (EKS) Ready Specialization designed to highlight APN Partners who have demonstrated technical proficiency in providing solutions on running Kubernetes on Amazon Web Services (AWS), on-premises, and the edge with Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS-Anywhere (EKS-A). 

Amazon Redshift announces CONJUNCTION TYPE support for row-level security (RLS) policies and RLS support on standard views and late binding views, which enables you to apply granular access controls and ensure that users can only access rows that they are authorized to see, even when the underlying data evolves or user permissions change. 

Amazon Redshift now supports metadata security that enables administrators to restrict the visibility on their catalog data based on user roles and permissions. Users can now see only the metadata for databases, schema, and tables/views that they have access to. It enables customers to deploy multi-tenant applications on a provisioned cluster or Serverless namespace. 

Today, AWS announces the availability of AWS Solution Building Enablement. This release provides AWS Partners prescriptive steps and self-serve assets to build and validate industry solutions across all business models.

Today, Amazon Redshift announces enhanced manageability and monitoring for features for Amazon Redshift Serverless , including cross-account cross-VPC, custom domain name(CNAME), snapshot scheduling, cross-region copy (CRC), improved visibility for serverless billing in the Redshift console, and version tracking. These features provide you with seamless data access, robust data protection, and cost-effective operations.

Today, AWS announces the general availability of myApplications, a new experience in the AWS Management Console that makes it easier to manage and monitor the cost, health, security posture, and performance of your applications. Now, you can create your applications more easily and see your applications in an AWS account from one view in the AWS Management Console. With an at-a-glance view of key application metrics such as cost, performance, and security findings, you can debug operational issues and optimize your applications. You can also act on specific application resources with one click from the application dashboard using the corresponding AWS services, such as AWS Cost Explorer for cost, AWS Security Hub for security findings, and Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals for application performance.

Built on best practices from operating thousands of applications at Amazon, Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals (Preview) is a new capability that makes it easy to automatically instrument and operate applications on AWS. You can track application performance against your most important business objectives without the undifferentiated heavy lifting of manual instrumentation, metrics computations, and correlating observed problem to root cause. CloudWatch Application Signals provides standardized metrics such as volume, latency, and errors for each of your applications with pre built dashboards. In as few as three clicks, you can spot anomalies, drill into the most important metrics, and identify the root cause of issues with correlated metrics logs and traces.