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The AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP) program validates AWS Partners with a proven track record and experience, providing end-to-end AWS solutions to customers at any stage of the cloud journey, including planning and design, building and migration, operations and support, and automation and optimization.
To achieve the AWS MSP designation, you need to complete an extensive independent audit to ensure your business health and technical capabilities meet a high bar.
Unifi.id, a technology provider of occupancy systems, sensors, and software for smart buildings, engaged AWS Partner transACT Technology Solutions to conduct an AWS Well-Architected Review that has ultimately delivered time-savings, cost reductions, and performance improvements. Using Amazon Web Services (AWS), transACT has deployed its own cloud management tool to deliver a range of benefits for Unifi.id and build a cloud platform to support future growth.
Bahrain Kuwait Insurance Company (BKIC) diversified its sales channels to offer embedded insurance to its partners using Amazon Web Services (AWS). Its existing API product was inefficient and slow, so BKIC worked with AWS Partner Zero&One to build a middleware layer to manage its APIs, resulting in a 66 percent increase in speed and 98 percent reduction in API size. Using API Gateway, AWS Lambda, and AWS Control Tower, BKIC cut costs and improved the performance and efficiency of its embedded insurance platform.
AWS Partner Accenture helped Swiss-based Helvetia Insurance develop a cloud migration strategy for part of its applications’ landscape to Amazon Web Services (AWS). Helvetia provides all forms of insurance in Europe, and specialized insurance and reinsurance services worldwide. With 72 percent of its applications now migrated to the cloud, it is on target to close its data centers by the end of 2023. Using AWS services including Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS, the company has cut its carbon emissions by 70 percent and is able to instantly spin up new testing environments, allowing it to focus on innovation.
Before it could launch its Spectra platform to help organizations assess location-specific climate risks, Climate X needed to update its cloud architecture to support the data-intensive needs of the large and growing number of customers the company expected. Amazon Web Services (AWS) recommended that it work with AWS Partner DoiT International, which conducted an AWS Well-Architected review of the company’s infrastructure and worked with Climate X to rebuild for greater availability and scalability. Today, Climate X has an architecture that can support its growth ambitions while also reducing its cloud costs by 17 percent.
CLOWD9 is transforming banking transactions, such as issuer processing, by building cloud-native services that offer improved latency, reliability, security, and instant scalability to legacy-bound financial institutions. The company was already building on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to offer services to its customers, but needed help from AWS Partner Bytes to provide the instant, global support that customers require wherever they are in the world.
AWS and Version 1: A Decade of Collaboration and Growth
Specialized MSP Partners like Version 1 help customers leverage the cloud as a strategic business advantage that goes beyond technical benefits to generate positive business outcomes.
Get started
Step 1: Join the AWS Partner Network
Join the AWS Partner Network (APN) at no cost by creating your AWS Partner Central account.
Enroll in the Services Path, specifically designed for organizations that leverage AWS to deliver consulting, professional, managed, and resale services.
Upon achieving AWS Advanced or Premier Services Tier, start to build your AWS MSP practice.
Connect with your AWS Partner Manager to discuss your MSP business model, define your milestones and timelines, and establish a successful MSP practice.
Review the AWS MSP Program requirements outlined in the AWS Specialization Programs Guide available in Partner Central.
Work with your AWS Partner Manager and Solutions Architect to review and prepare your self-assessment.
Before submitting your application, make sure your organization’s partner scorecard is up to date in Partner Central. You will only see the AWS MSP Program application in your scorecard once the program requirements are met.
Upon meeting the program requirements, you can apply to the AWS MSP Program in Partner Central by navigating to Programs > Program Applications.
For step-by-step guidance on how to apply for the MSP Program, refer to the specialization program guide available in Partner Central.
You will be re-evaluated annually to ensure you continue to meet updated AWS MSP Program standards.
Upon achieving your Managed Service Provider designation, you will receive a welcome email outlining the benefits you can take advantage of, including your AWS Partner Badge. This email and our benefits guide will help you make the most of the recognition, early access, AWS expert engagement, financial incentives, and ways to upskill on AWS that you gain through the program.
