Validate and promote your software products that work with AWS services
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The AWS Service Ready Program is designed to validate software products built by AWS Partners that work with specific AWS services. These software products are technically validated by AWS Partner Solution Architects for their sound architecture and adherence to AWS best practices, and market adoption including customer successes.
Attaining an AWS Service Ready designation helps AWS Partners promote their software products globally. Through this AWS validation, you can demonstrate to your customer that your tools or applications help reduce technology risks.
Explore benefits, success stories, how to get started, and AWS Service Ready designations below.
Marketing benefits
Gain more visibility with customers, AWS Sales, and service teams:
- AWS service-webpage listing
- APN Blog new-partner post product listing
- AWS Partner badge with program designation
- AWS Partner Solutions Finder priority ranking
- Marketing Playbook and Toolkit
Technical enablement
Dive deep with AWS subject matter experts and events by leveraging:
AWS GameDay Partner Benefits
- GameDay Partner League to upskill with AWS experts
- GameDay Quests Developer Kit (QDK) to market and sell your software
- GameDay Beta test previews to preview content and shape GameDays
Deeper Learning Series
- NDA product roadmap and feature release previews
- Q&A sessions with AWS experts
Additional opportunities
Fulfill pre-requisites with a service designation to unlock these additional benefits and opportunities:
- Marketing Developing Funds (MDF) per designation to drive demand generation and GTM activities
- APN TV and APN Blog opportunities to submit content for greater customer visibility
Service-specific benefits
Access incremental benefits unique for select AWS services, including:
- Additional funding, credits, and discounts
- Invitation to sales-account mapping sessions and customized co-selling courses
Check out the AWS Service Ready Benefits Guide for more details »
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Success Stories
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Get Started
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Step 1: Join the AWS Partner Network
Join the AWS Partner Network (APN) at no cost by creating your AWS Partner Central account.
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Step 2: Enroll in the Software Path
- Enroll in the Software Path, specifically designed for organizations that develop software that runs on or is integrated with AWS.
- Upon meeting the minimum validation criteria for the Software Path, i.e., successfully completing the AWS Foundational Technical Review (FTR), become eligible to apply for the AWS Service Ready designation.
- Enroll in the Software Path, specifically designed for organizations that develop software that runs on or is integrated with AWS.
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Step 3: Choose your AWS Service Ready designations
Choose the AWS Service Ready designations that align best with your organization’s offering, and review requirements associated with each designation.
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Step 4: Apply
- Upon meeting the program requirements, you can apply to the AWS Service Ready Program within AWS Partner Central > View My APN Account.
- For step-by-step guidance on how to apply for the program, refer to the AWS Service Ready Program Guide available in Partner Central.
- Upon achieving the AWS Service Ready designation, you will receive a series of welcome emails outlining the AWS Service Ready Benefits in detail. These emails explain how to access your funding, marketing, and elite technical enablement benefits. You can immediately start taking advantage of AWS Partner benefits, including your AWS Partner badge with AWS Service Ready designation.
Partner Testimonials
“The AWS Service Ready Program demonstrates our commitment to help customers leveraging the agility, breadth of services, and pace of innovation that AWS provides. Epsagon's adherence to AWS best practices helped us to improve customers' experience and reduce their TCO by 70%. With Epsagon's seamless integration to AWS Service, microservices customers can now can deploy features 2x faster.”
- Nofar Asselman, VP of Business Development, Epsagon
"We have had 300 percent year-over-year growth in revenue for the past two years, and we have seen a tenfold increase in CPU cores for our customers in the past year. We completed two rounds of financing last year, and our AWS partnership helped drive that.”
- Tom Amsterdam, VP of Product, Granulate
“The AWS Service Ready Program has driven awareness and contributed to impactful revenue for Heimdall Data. Sales of our database proxy grew more than 10x annually. The Amazon RDS solution is feature-rich and easy-to-use. Coupled with being an AWS Partner, it has been a recipe for success.”
- Roland Lee, Head of Products, Heimdall Data
AWS Service Ready Designations
Amazon CloudFront Ready Partners provide solutions-focused offerings to AWS customers in the end-to-end media management, security, monitoring and analytics, and content acceleration space. Their offerings help complement and augment existing AWS services to help customers optimize their use of Amazon CloudFront.
AWS Graviton Ready Software Products are enabled on AWS Graviton-based Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances to help integrate, deploy, monitor, and secure your workloads. AWS Graviton Ready products are vetted and optimized to run on AWS Graviton-based instances.
AWS Lambda Ready Software Products provide tools and integrations for AWS Lambda, enabling customers to build serverless applications with ease. They provide solutions for application definition, management, and deployment, and solutions that extend and integrate with function runtimes and APIs.
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Ready Software Products include tooling solutions that integrate with Amazon RDS and are designed to manage complex and time-consuming administrative tasks. RDS Ready products also support the use of the Amazon RDS platform as a backend for business applications deployed across seven RDS database engines including Aurora PostgreSQL, Aurora MySQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, and SQL Server.
