A company wants to find certified third-party consulting firms and system integrators that can assist with migrating to AWS and building out the environment. Which mechanism is MOST suitable for this requirement?
Choosing the mechanism for finding certified third-party firms that assist with migration.
AWS Marketplace
AWS Marketplace is an online store for searching, purchasing, and deploying third-party software products.
What can be found there are products, not companies (people and services) that provide migration and build assistance. The partner network handles this requirement, so this option is incorrect.
AWS Professional Services
AWS Professional Services is a service in which AWS's own expert team directly assists with large-scale cloud adoption.
The provider of the assistance is AWS itself, which differs from this question's requirement of finding certified external (third-party) firms, so this option is incorrect.
AWS Support
AWS Support is a channel that answers technical inquiries about AWS usage (with assistance levels that vary by plan).
Its role is answering questions, and it is not a mechanism for searching or referring external firms that take on migration projects, so this option is incorrect.
AWS Partner Network (APN)
Correct. The AWS Partner Network (APN) is a community of consulting partners and technology partners certified by AWS. Using the Partner Solutions Finder, companies can search for certified third-party firms that assist with migration and environment build-out.
'Find certified third-party firms to assist' = AWS Partner Network (APN). Purchasing products = Marketplace, AWS's own expert assistance = Professional Services, technical questions = AWS Support. Distinguish by 'firm vs. product vs. AWS itself.'