New AWS End User Computing Competency Partners 'Help Raise the Tide'
The designation certifies 15 channel players as experts in addressing customers’ security and compliance issues.
Amazon Web Services is helping end users handle the ever-harder security and compliance requirements tied to endpoints, applications and data, especially as more people work outside of a physical office, act as contractors and as organizations pursue digital transformation.
To address the challenges, the cloud giant has certified the first channel partners, 15 total, throughout the world as experts in the new AWS End User Computing Competency. In short, the associated solutions allow end users to access company resources from anywhere.
AWS’ Renata Melnyk
The partners “can support your company’s need to provision, protect and get intelligence from endpoint devices, end-user apps and data on AWS,” Renata Melnyk, senior partner program manager at AWS, wrote in a blog.
Earning the AWS Competency designation was not easy. The 15 partners underwent “rigorous validation,” Melnyk wrote, as well as assessments of the security, performance and reliability of their AWS offerings and practices. Validation included:
A minimum of four unique, in-depth AWS case studies specific to completed End User Computing technology projects.
Demonstrated domain expertise in End User Computing technologies and workloads, complete with “innovative solutions” running on AWS.
At least 12 months’ worth of blog posts, videos, press articles, and so on, available to the public.
Documented access management strategy, including but not limited to: IAM users, symmetric access keys, asymmetric X.509 certificates, console passwords, and hardware or virtual multifactor authentication devices.
Evidence of stringent data and security protections.
Demonstrations of capabilities, processes, customer examples.
All that rigor proves the certified partners can enable a range of benefits. Alscient, a U.K.-based integrator, positions its AWS End User Computing Competency as facilitating a standardized desktop build that “can be securely provisioned in minutes, reducing corporate risk to common web threats.”
From there, a cloud-hosted platform hosts user management, while secure desktop access comes with options to restrict accesses as needed; for example, by network IPs and Active Directory domains, the company explains on its website.
New York-based Innovation Solutions also holds the AWS End User Computing Competency designation.