AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog with over 7,000 software listings and data products, has announced Discovery API, a new API created for select partners.  

Today, the AWS Partner Network (APN) announced the APN Global Startup Program , a dedicated go-to-market (GTM) program for eligible Startup APN Technology Partners. This program is tailored for fast-scaling global startups to provide the resources they need to grow their cloud-based businesses.

Today, the AWS Partner Network (APN) announced AWS Service Ready Program, a new way for AWS customers to identify if a tool or application will integrate with AWS services running in their cloud environment. The AWS Service Ready Program identifies and validates products from APN Technology Partners that integrate with specific AWS services to help companies find products compatible with specific AWS services. AWS Service Ready provides a way for companies globally to identify and adopt AWS service integrated tools.

Today, we announced the AWS Retail Competency for retail customers looking for highly specialized APN Partners offering retail technology on AWS. The AWS Retail Competency saves our customers time and takes the validation process out of the equation as it takes care of the heavy lifting of identifying, vetting, and highlighting industry specialized APN Partners who have proven success and deep technical capabilities when it comes to retail.

AWS Customers can quickly identify top-tier APN Consulting Partners who identify, build, and implement technology offerings aimed at improving organizational capacity to prepare, respond, and recover from emergencies and disasters, globally. APN Partners who achieve the AWS Public Safety and Disaster Response Competency have demonstrated deep technical experience to implement innovative solutions addressing complex, dynamic, and sensitive operating environments, including leveraging the AWS cloud in areas where Internet access is degraded or completely destroyed.

AWS Immersion Day workshops provide a customizable AWS experience delivered by AWS Solution Architects and Account Managers to AWS customers. In order to help AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners provide the same experience to their customers, today, we launched APN Immersion Days. APN Immersion Days provides APN Partners a repeatable model, reusable content, and automated tools for a set of technical workshops that have been shown to be a valuable customer engagement motion with our own commercial teams.

Amazon Neptune now offers a workbench, an in-console experience to query your graph. The workbench lets you quickly and easily query your Neptune databases with Jupyter notebooks – a fully managed, interactive development environment with live code and narrative text.  

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) now supports Windows group Managed Service Account (gMSA), a new capability that allows ECS customers to authenticate and authorize their Windows containers with network resources using an Active Directory (AD). Customers can now easily use Integrated Windows Authentication with their Windows containers on ECS to secure services.

The Amazon EKS developer preview for Amazon EC2 A1 instances has been updated with support for the latest Kubernetes versions, global AMI availability, and bug fixes. 

The Amplify Framework  is an open source project for building cloud-enabled mobile and web applications, consisting of libraries, UI components, and a CLI toolchain.