AWS Service Delivery Program
Demonstrate your AWS service experience
The AWS Service Delivery Program enables AWS customers to identify APN Consulting Partners with experience and a deep understanding of specific AWS services. These APN Partners follow best practices for AWS services and have proven success delivering AWS services to customers.
AWS Service Delivery Partners are vetted by AWS through a rigorous technical validation. 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. Learn more about the variety of AWS service-specific Designations available.
Discover the AWS Service Delivery Program Benefits and how to apply to the Program below.
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AWS Service Delivery Program Benefits
AWS Service Delivery Partners pass a high technical bar and receive a variety of program benefits as a result. Benefits include access to funding and discounts, invitations to designation related AWS service-specific roadmaps and feature releases before general availability, AWS marketing support, and priority consideration to publish technical content through AWS forums. Program benefits are in addition to APN tier benefits.
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Core Benefits
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Additional Benefits
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AWS Service-Specific Benefits
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Publication Opportunities
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Core Benefits
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All AWS Service Delivery Partners receive these core benefits.
- AWS Service Partners Webpage Listing corresponding to your AWS service designations
- Promotion to AWS Sales and Service Teams through internal forums, presentations, and promotional campaigns
- 3,000 AWS Promotional Credits one-time in 2020
- Exclusive Deeper Learning Sessions with AWS Product Teams
- APN Blog Post promoting your company the month of your designation award in a welcome post
- APN Partner Solutions Finder priority ranking
- APN Badge & Program Logos access to market your achievements
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Additional Benefits
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Beyond the core benefits, AWS Service Delivery Partners qualify for additional benefits and opportunities with AWS because of their proven experience with AWS services and customers. While additional APN Partner engagement is necessary, your AWS Service Delivery Program membership meets prerequisites for the following:
- APN Customer Engagements (ACE): ACE enables AWS Partners to build, grow, and drive successful customer engagements with AWS Sales. It provides you with a platform to collaborate with AWS Sales and Marketing teams, and request funding and technical support to help you co-sell with AWS. Learn more about ACE
- Exclusive Service Validation AWS GameDays: An interactive team-based learning exercises, designed to give players a chance to put their AWS skills to the test in a real-world, but gamified and risk-free environment. Because every team playing in our GameDay league comes from a validated company, these GameDays are truly exciting battles among the experts
- Special Engagements: When AWS Events are being planned, AWS Partners in differentiation programs like AWS Service Delivery are considered first. Sponsorship opportunities, APN Partner speaking engagements, AWS service boot camps, AWS Marketing Campaigns, and AWS service focus groups. Invitations to special events are sent via email to APN Alliance Leads
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AWS Service-Specific Benefits
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Select AWS Service Delivery designations offer unique, exclusive benefits:
- Enable Proactive Infrastructure Compliance (EPIC) Credit Program for AWS Config Partners enabling new customer compliance use cases
- Funding for EC2 for Windows Delivery Partners for customer migration opportunities
- Invitation to private launches for EC2 for Windows Server Delivery Partners gaining early access to tech, the ability to test out new features with customers, and a chance to offer feedback to product teams
- Funding for AWS Lambda Delivery Partners and Amazon API Gateway Delivery Partners leading serverless app modernization proofs of concept (POCs)
- Funding for Amazon Redshift Delivery Partners for data warehouse modernization projects
- Discounted Pricing exclusively for Amazon CloudFront Delivery Partners who meet the volume, region, and usage requirements
- Advanced Bootcamps for Amazon Connect Partners 400-level technical, service-specific content. Technical teams are invited
- Enable Proactive Infrastructure Compliance (EPIC) Credit Program for AWS Config Partners enabling new customer compliance use cases
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Publication Opportunities
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APN Marketing prioritizes APN Partners in differentiation programs such as AWS Service Delivery, first. While any APN Partner may submit content to our marketing channels, an AWS Service Delivery designation puts you at the front of the line. Ask your APN Partner Development Representative to help you submit content to these forums:
- APN TV: AWS Service Delivery is one of five qualifying programs to publish partner produced and related videos hosted on AWS.
- APN Blog: AWS Service Delivery is one of eight APN Differentiation Programs that provide eligibility to write for the APN Blog. We encourage you to submit technical blog posts showcasing your service-specific expertise and customer success.
AWS Service Delivery Designations
The AWS Service Delivery Program validates APN Partners for their service-specific expertise. Within the AWS Service Delivery Program, APN Partners can apply to receive an AWS Service Delivery designation for select AWS services. APN Partners may attain more than one AWS Service Delivery designation to show experience across multiple AWS services.
AWS services with designations in the AWS Service Delivery Program are chosen based on factors including a high customer demand for validated, experienced APN Partners to help them be successful with that service. We strongly encourage APN Partners to choose designations that fit their business model and goals. The Partner DNA Guide helps APN Partners decide which AWS Service Delivery designations to pursue based on their strengths.
Database Services Designations
Database Services Partners deliver services or solutions that include or are specific to these services:
Amazon Aurora
Amazon Aurora Partners deliver services or solutions for Amazon Aurora, a MySQL-compatible relational database engine that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. Amazon Aurora Partners deliver new Aurora implementations, migrate AWS customers to Amazon Aurora, or build tools compatible with Amazon Aurora.
Amazon RDS
Amazon RDS Partners deliver services or solutions for Amazon RDS, which manages complex and time-consuming administrative tasks such as PostgreSQL software installation and upgrades; storage management; replication for high availability and read throughput; and backups for disaster recovery. Amazon RDS Partners deliver new implementations, migrate AWS customers to Amazon RDS, or build tools compatible with Amazon RDS.
AWS Database Migration Service
AWS Database Migration Service Partners help customers use AWS Database Migration Service 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 Designations
Compute Services Partners deliver services or solutions that include or are specific to these services:
Amazon EC2 for Windows Server
AWS Server Migration Service
AWS Server Migration Service Partners help AWS customers implement AWS SMS to migrate on-premises workloads to AWS, allowing AWS customers to automate, schedule, and track incremental replications of live server volumes.
Networking and Content Delivery Services Designations
Networking and Content Delivery Services Partners deliver services or solutions that include or are specific to these services:
Amazon CloudFront
AWS Direct Connect
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.
Serverless Computing Services Designations
Serverless Computing Services Partners deliver services or solutions that include or are specific to these services:
AWS Lambda
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
Amazon API Gateway Partners provide tools and services to help customers create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure their APIs at any scale.
Amazon DynamoDB
Analytics Services Designations
Analytics Services Partners deliver services or solutions that include or are specific to these services:
Amazon EMR
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
Amazon Redshift
Amazon QuickSight
Amazon QuickSight Partners enable AWS customers to use this business intelligence service that makes it easy to delivery insights to everyone in their organization.
Management Tools Designations
Management Tools Partners deliver services or solutions that include or are specific to these services:
AWS CloudFormation
AWS CloudFormation Partners offer AWS customer developers and system administrators 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
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
AWS Config Partners enable AWS customers to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of their AWS resources. With AWS Config, customers and APN 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
AWS Systems Manager Partners enable AWS customers to use this management service that automically collects software inventory, apply OS patches, create system images, and configure Windows and Linux operating systems.
Internet of Things Services Designations
AWS IoT Partners 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 Core
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
AWS IoT Greengrass
AWS IoT Greengrass Partners improve customer outcomes by applying their demonstrated experience in building IoT solutions with local edge device intelligence.
Customer Engagement Designations
Customer Engagement Partners deliver services or solutions that include or are specific to Amazon Connect.
Amazon Connect
Amazon Connect Partners help improve customer experience and outcomes by choosing the best approach for the design and implementation of contact center solutions that are optimized for cost, reliability, security, performance, and scalability.
Security Services Designations
Security Service Partners deliver services or solutions that include or are specific to AWS WAF.
AWS Web Application Firewall
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 Designations
AWS GovCloud (US) Partners deliver workloads in the AWS GovCloud (US) region.
AWS GovCloud (US)
AWS GovCloud (US) Skill Partners help AWS customers with architecting, operating, and managing workloads in the AWS GovCloud (US) region while supporting US government compliance and regulatory requirements including FedRAMP, ITAR, SRG Levels 2 and 4, CJIS Security Policy, and/or HIPAA. They help customers handling sensitive data and workloads implement mission oriented systems and applications in the AWS GovCloud (US) region that address compliance standards, reduce costs, drive efficiencies, and increase innovation.
Apply to the AWS Service Delivery Program
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Step 1: Meet APN Tier Requirements
APN Partners must meet APN Select tier (formerly Standard tier) requirements or higher before submitting a program application. Learn more about APN Tiers.
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Step 2: Prepare Your Application
Review the Validation Checklist for the AWS Service Delivery designation that best fits your area of focus and technical strengths. Validation Checklists are linked below each designation on this page or available in APN Partner Central.
Prepare the following items:
- Review the Validation Checklist and submit a completed self-assessment
- Two (2) AWS Customer Case Studies with Architecture Diagrams
- The URL for your AWS service-specific microsite
Overview of the Program: AWS Service Delivery Program GuideAWS Service Delivery Step-by-Step Application ProcessVideo instructions of how to apply for AWS Service Delivery - Review the Validation Checklist and submit a completed self-assessment
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Step 3: Apply
Apply for AWS Service Delivery designation(s):
With the materials in Step 2 prepared, you're ready to apply:
- Log in to APN Partner Central and click "View My APN Account" from left navigation
- Scroll to “AWS Services” and complete AWS Service Delivery application
Once you have submitted your application, the APN Team will review your submission and reply to you within three business days.
- Log in to APN Partner Central and click "View My APN Account" from left navigation
Related Resources
The AWS Service Ready Program is a validation program that identifies and endorses products from APN Technology Partners that integrate with specific AWS services.
Learn more about the AWS Service Delivery Program on the APN Blog.

