AWS Service Delivery Program
Promote your expertise delivering AWS Services to customers
What is the AWS Service Delivery Program?
The AWS Service Delivery Program is designed to validate AWS Partners that have a deep understanding of AWS services, demonstrated experience, and proven customer success in delivering these services to customers.
The AWS Partners are technically validated for having experience delivering and providing consultancy on specific AWS services to our customers. From helping customers run serverless code with AWS Lambda to deploying managed, secure, reliable, and high-performing Windows-based solutions on Amazon EC2 Windows, AWS Service Delivery Partners are equipped to assist AWS customers with specific AWS services.
Discover program benefits, the application process, AWS Service Delivery designations, and success stories below.
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AWS Service Delivery Partner Benefits
AWS Service Delivery Partners gain access to a variety of benefits to build, market, and sell their AWS-based solutions.
Core Marketing Benefits
Gain more visibility with customers, AWS sales and service teams with:
- Company listing on AWS Partners page
- APN Badge & program Logos
- Company listing on APN Blog welcome post
- AWS Partner Solutions Finder priority ranking
- Marketing Playbook and Toolkit
Technical Enablement
Stay one step ahead with the latest information on AWS services by participating in:
- Service Validation GameDays
- Deeper Learning webinar series
- Q&A sessions with the product team
Unique Service Benefits
Qualify for these additional unique service benefits based on your designation:
- Additional funding opportunities
- Additional AWS Promotional Credits
- Discounted pricing
- Advanced boot camps
- Private launches
Additional Opportunities
Open doors to explore engagement opportunities with AWS:
- Drive demand generation and GTM activities with $5000 USD Marketing Development Funds (MDF) per designation
- Eligibility to co-sell through the AWS Customer Engagement Program (ACE)
- Publish videos to APN TV
- Write for the APN Blog
AWS Service Delivery Partner Journey
As an AWS Partner, you may apply for one or more AWS Delivery designations depending on your business needs. Follow these steps to become an AWS Service Delivery Partner.
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Step 1: Join the APN
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Step 2: Identify AWS Service Delivery designation
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Step 3: Submit Practice and Case Study Details
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Step 4: Apply
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Step 5: Promote your business
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Step 1: Join the APN
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If you haven’t already registered your company with the APN, join the APN by creating your APN Partner Central account.
- AWS Partners must meet the AWS Select Tier Consulting Partner requirements before applying for an AWS Service Delivery designation. Explore AWS Consulting Partner Requirements »
- You can check your APN tier status in the Partner Scorecard on APN Partner Central.
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Step 2: Identify AWS Service Delivery designation
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AWS Partners should choose an AWS Service Delivery designation that aligns best with your consulting practice(s).
- Download the AWS Service Delivery Program Partner Profiles guide and select the designation that best aligns to your practice
- Review and meet the Validation Checklist requirements for your chosen AWS Service Delivery designation.
- Review the AWS Service Delivery Program Application Guide for step-by-step guidance on how to apply for the program
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Step 3: Submit Practice and Case Study Details
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Upon meeting the requirements for the specific AWS Service Delivery designation, you will need to provide details about your practice(s) and case studies that align with the specific AWS Service Delivery designation. Follow these steps to provide Case Study and Practice information.
- For your chosen designations, complete the self-assessment found within the Validation Checklist for each case study
- Login to your account in APN Partner Central
- Under ‘Practice’ section, click ‘New’ and fill out the ‘Practice’ form to submit your practice details for evaluation*
- Under ‘Case Studies’ section, click ‘New’ and fill out the ‘Case Study’ form* to submit your case study details and attach the self-assessment, architecture diagram, and any additional supporting documents to each case study for evaluation
- For your chosen designations, complete the self-assessment found within the Validation Checklist for each case study
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Step 4: Apply
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The practice details and case studies you create will be used to complete your application. Review the AWS Service Delivery Program Guide for step-by-step guidance on how to participate in the program.
- Scroll to ‘Apply for Services’ and ‘Apply’ to the Service Delivery Designation to complete your submission
- The AWS Service Delivery team will review your application details within 3 Business days
- You will be notified by email of your application outcome
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Step 5: Promote your business
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Upon achieving your AWS Service Delivery designation, you will receive a welcome kit detailing your core program benefits. You may now leverage various benefits available to promote your business as an AWS Service Delivery Partner.
- APN Badge & Program Logos to officially market your achievements
- Marketing Playbook and Toolkit to launch a marketing campaign
- Participate in events and workshops such as Service Validation GameDay League, Deeper Learning Webinar Series, and Q&A with the product team session
- Apply to meet pre-requisites for APN Customer Engagements (ACE), a co-sell program to collaborate with AWS Sales and Marketing
- Review the full list of Program Benefits to maximize program participation
- APN Badge & Program Logos to officially market your achievements
AWS Service Delivery Success Stories
Learn how AWS Service Delivery Partners are helping customers leverage AWS services.
NorthBay
NorthBay shares trends its CEO and CTO see in the analytics space on AWS and how NorthBay uses the program to help customers take advantage of AWS services to build effective analytics solutions.
Panoply
Motorsport Network reduces data reporting time by 30x with Panoply.
iOLAP
CloudGeometry
Trek10
Panoply
Panopoly offers all-in-one data management platform that gives SaaS companies a 360-degree view of their customers.
FiveTran
FiveTrain enables customer attribution models on AWS with automated data integration.
47 Lining
Apps Associates
Cloud Kinetics
Cedrus
FADEL reduces API generation from days to minutes with Cedrus.
Smartronix
AWS Service Delivery Designations
Identify the AWS Service Delivery designation that aligns best with your practice. You may apply for one or more designations depending on your business needs. AWS services with designations in the AWS Service Delivery Program are chosen based on factors including a high customer demand for validated, experienced AWS Partners to help them be successful with that service.
Database Services
Amazon RDS Partners deliver solutions to help customers manage complex and time-consuming work including new Amazon RDS implementations, database migrations, and building compatible tools. Amazon RDS Partners deliver solutions across seven database engines: Aurora MySQL, Aurora PostgreSQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, and SQL Server.
AWS Database Migration Service Partners help customers to migrate databases to AWS easily and securely while minimizing application downtime. AWS Database Migration Service Partners support both homogeneous migrations such as Oracle to Oracle, as well as heterogeneous migrations between different database platforms, such as Oracle to Amazon Aurora or Microsoft SQL Server to MySQL.
Compute Services
Amazon EC2 for Windows Server Partners deliver services for Amazon EC2, managing secure, reliable, and high-performance environments for deploying Windows-based applications and workloads.
AWS Server Migration Service Partners help customers implement AWS SMS to migrate on-premise workloads to AWS. They also help customers to manage a customized replication schedule designed for large-scale migrations and enable customers to automate, schedule, and track incremental replications of live server volumes.
Networking and Content Delivery Services
Amazon CloudFront Partners help AWS customers deploy a global content delivery network (CDN) service that accelerates delivery of websites, APIs, video content, or other web assets. By helping customers deploy Amazon CloudFront, these partners give developers and businesses an easy way to optimize performance, accelerate content, and reduce costs.
AWS Direct Connect Service Delivery Partners provide flexibility and choices on how to connect with AWS, including Dedicated Connections, greater than 500 Mbps capacity Hosted Connections, and enhanced monitoring of the network link between Direct Connect Partners and AWS. To learn more download the AWS Direct Connect Partner Guide.
Serverless Computing Services
AWS Lambda Partners provide services and tools that help customers build or migrate their solutions to a microservices architecture running on serverless computing, which lets you build services and applications without the need for provisioning or managing servers.
Amazon API Gateway Partners provide tools and services to help customers build, secure and manage APIs, and API-driven architectures, at any scale.
Amazon DynamoDB Partners help customers deploy Amazon DynamoDB, a fast and flexible NoSQL database service for all applications that need consistent, single-digit millisecond latency at any scale.
Analytics Services
Amazon EMR Partners help customers to build and deploy big data analytics applications using Amazon EMR, a managed service that makes it easy to run big data frameworks such as Apache Hadoop, Spark, Presto, Hive, and HBase on massively scalable clusters.
Amazon Kinesis Partners help customers deploy Amazon Kinesis, a platform for streaming data on AWS. These partners offer powerful services to make it easy to load and analyze streaming data, and also provide the ability to build custom streaming data applications for specialized needs.
Amazon Redshift Partners deploy analytics solutions leveraging Amazon Redshift as data warehouse and Extract-Load-Transform service. These partners develop solutions that integrate Amazon Redshift with purpose-built AWS analytics services, providing customers a modern scalable, secure, and cost-effective analytics solution.
Amazon QuickSight Partners help AWS customers to develop meaningful business insights through Amazon Quicksight to automatically scale tens to tens of thousands of users without any infrastructure to manage. Additionally, Amazon QuickSight Partners help customers to scale your BI solution to minimize cost and optimize performance.
Management Tools
AWS CloudFormation Partners enable AWS customers, developers, and system administrators develop an easy way to use infrastructure as code. They provide an easy way to create and manage a collection of related AWS resources, provisioning and updating them in an orderly and predictable fashion.
AWS Service Catalog Partners help create catalogs of IT services that are approved by the customer’s organization for use on AWS. With AWS Service Catalog, customers and Partners can centrally manage commonly deployed IT services to help achieve consistent governance and meet compliance requirements while enabling users to self-provision approved services.
AWS Config Partners enable AWS customers to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of their AWS resources. With AWS Config, customers and AWS Partners can review changes in configurations and relationships between AWS resources, dive into detailed resource configuration histories, and determine overall compliance against the configurations specified.
AWS Systems Manager Partners enable AWS customers to automatically collect software inventory, apply OS patches, create system images, configure Windows and Linux operating systems, and automate operational tasks. Through AWS Systems Manager Partners, customers can easily operate and manage infrastructure securely at scale.
IoT Services
AWS IoT Core Partners leverage deep technical expertise using AWS IoT Core to improve customer experience and outcomes by choosing the best approach for the design and implementation of IoT solutions that are optimized for cost, reliability, security, performance, and scalability.
AWS IoT Analytics Partners have proven AWS customer success developing solutions to ingest, process, store, and analyze IoT data using the fully managed and scalable AWS IoT Analytics.
AWS IoT Greengrass Partners improve customer outcomes by applying their demonstrated experience in building IoT solutions with local edge device intelligence.
Customer Engagement
Amazon Connect Partners help improve customer experience and business outcomes by choosing the best approach for the design and implementation of contact center solutions using Amazon Connect with a view to optimize cost, reliability, security, performance, and scalability.
Security Services
AWS WAF Partners help customers implement AWS WAF to protect their web applications from common web exploits that could affect application availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources.
GovCloud
AWS GovCloud (US) Skill Partners help US government and regulated industry customers with architecting, operating, and managing workloads in AWS GovCloud (US) regions. They help customers handling sensitive data and workloads implement mission oriented systems and applications in the region that address compliance standards (e.g. FedRAMP, SRG, ITAR, CJIS) reduce costs, drive efficiencies, and increase innovation.
