Expanded partner programme and new services among announcements at AWS re:Inforce

Changes to security competency, MSSP competency and a new WAN offering among the biggest launches

Changes to its partner programme and a new wide area network (WAN) service are among the biggest announcement at this year's AWS re:Inforce conference.

The cloud vendor announced earlier this week that it was rolling out an expanded security competency in its partner programme with the introduction of eight new categories for partners, which it is claimed will make it easier for customers.

And AWS is also introducing new six new specialisations for its level one MSSP competency partners.

The six specialisation categories are: identity behaviour monitoring; data privacy event management; modern compute security monitoring for containers and serverless technologies; managed application security testing; digital forensics and incident response support; and business continuity and ransomware readiness to recover from potentially disruptive events.

AWS says the changes will mean partners are essentially a continuation of the vendor's own security team.

The company has also announced the general availability of AWS Cloud WAN, a new WAN service that connects on-premises data centres, colocation facilities, branch offices, and cloud resources which it claims will "simplify operating a global network".

It will allow customers to "define their network configuration, view the health of their global network, and automate routine configuration and security tasks", AWS added.

Among the new launches is also AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights, which compiles security and compliance information in a single unified dashboard so customers will have "one place" where they can see public certifications.

Amazon Detective for Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), meanwhile, will help in security investigations, AWS claims, by allowing users to investigate and identify the root cause of security findings or suspicious control plane activity on Amazon EKS clusters.

AWS has also expanded Amazon Detective so that it now features new capabilities that increase security investigation coverage for Kubernetes workloads running on Amazon EKS.