AWS Government Competency Partners
Drive innovation and unlock greater business value with AWS Specialization Partners that have deep technical knowledge and proven customer success
Government agencies around the world are balancing agility, security, compliance, and reliability. At the same time, they are focused on modernizing aging infrastructures and improving operational productivity.
AWS Government Competency Partners have demonstrated experience in delivering quality solutions to help agencies meet mandates, reduce costs, drive efficiencies, and increase innovation across civilian agencies, national defense and intelligence communities, and state and local governments.
AWS Competency: The AWS Competency Program is designed to identify, validate, and promote AWS Partners with demonstrated AWS technical expertise and proven customer success. These AWS Partners have passed a rigorous technical validation to ensure they are following AWS best practices.
AWS Government Competency Partners by Categories
Citizen Services
Flexible and economical cloud infrastructure for citizen services, transportation, smart cities, and more.
Defense & National Security
The world's most demanding customers choose AWS for a complete platform that meets strict security and compliance standards.
Public Safety
Leverage AWS cloud technology to prepare for, respond to, and recover from various types of natural or man-made disasters and public safety emergencies globally.
Connect with AWS Government Competency Partners
Drive innovation, meet business objectives, and get the most out of your AWS services by partnering with technically validated AWS Partners.
“By becoming an AWS Government Competency Partner, we validated our technical expertise and proven success, helping us succeed with the UK Government’s Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) and other public sector agencies.” - Andrew Campbell, UK director of delivery and management at BJSS. Read case study here
Next Steps
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Step 1: Join the AWS Partner Network
Upon joining the AWS Partner Network (APN), enroll in the Partner Path(s) based on your customer offering. The APN is a global community of partners that leverages programs, expertise, and resources to build, market, and sell customer solutions. Whether you are starting your business or looking to expand, join the APN at no cost and utilize enablement resources, well-architected tools, and more.
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Step 2: Enroll in the AWS Partner Path(s)
For organizations that develop software that runs on or is integrated with AWS, enroll in the Software Path and meet the minimum validation criteria i.e. successfully complete the AWS Foundational Technical Review (FTR). Learn more about AWS FTR
For organizations that leverage AWS to deliver consulting, professional, managed, and resale services, enroll in the Services Path and meet the minimum validation criteria i.e. achieve AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner. Learn more about AWS Partner Tier requirements
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Step 3: Choose the government competency Program
- Under the “Industries” tab on the AWS Competency page, find ‘Government’ and select the competency requirements outlined in the Validation Checklist that aligns best with your AWS Partner Path (Services of Software).
- Start with the AWS Competency Navigate Track, available in Partner Central, for prescriptive guidance to grow your expertise and meet the AWS Competency requirements faster.
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Step 4: Obtain the Government Competency and unlock benefits!
Upon achieving the Government Competency award, your alliance leader will receive a welcome email outlining the benefits your company can take advantage of, including your AWS Partner Badge. This email and our benefits guide will help you make the most of the go to market benefits, recognition, early access, AWS expert engagement, financial incentives, and ways to upskill on AWS that you gain through the program.
Additional Resources
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Accelerating Semantic and Similar Search Functions for a Leading Legal Publisher
AustriaMANZ, an Austrian company that provides information services for legal and tax professionals, sought to revolutionize how its registered users searched its vast repository of legal documents. With over 300 million documents in its database, MANZ aimed to implement a cutting-edge solution using vector embeddings to enhance similarity searches and uncover deeper connections between documents. In collaboration with AWS Partner tecRacer Consulting, MANZ developed and successfully deployed a powerful solution, which reduced deployment times and empowered MANZ to independently develop and refine its solution.
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Contra Costa County District Attorney's Office Makes Unbiased Charging Decisions with ScaleCapacity Generative AI Solution on AWS
United StatesThe Contra Costa County District Attorney's Office works to prevent crime, seek justice, and enhance public safety for the residents of Contra Costa County, California. The office needed to create a new solution to automate sensitive data redaction to comply with a new state Race-Blind Charging mandate. To meet this requirement, the office worked with the AWS account team and AWS Partner ScaleCapacity to build an AI-driven Race-Blind Charging solution on AWS. With this solution, the District Attorney's Office achieved compliance in six months, can now automatically redact sensitive data from case documents, and can thoroughly test and deploy any new redaction rule changes in less than a week.
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The National Institutes of Health Works with Govplace to Accelerate Scientific Research and Analysis
United StatesThe National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Portfolio Analysis (OPA) sought a more scalable and flexible IT environment to support applications including a research web database and tools for indexing and searching text-based data. To meet these needs, the organization worked with AWS Partner Govplace to create a new text-based indexing and search solution on AWS. Now, OPA scales in hours instead of months to support 10 times the compute capacity, helping researchers accelerate scientific research by quickly scanning millions of grants, journal articles, and patents.
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Jeff Kratz, Pete Herlihy, 03/20/2025Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Public Digital announced the recipients of the Future of Government Awards 2025. This year’s awards saw a surge in nominations for digital public infrastructure (DPI) initiatives, evidence of the increased focus and importance it is playing in societies worldwide. Read this post to learn about the winners and honorary mentions.
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Mozammil Khan, Gautam Jha, 03/18/2025In this post, we explore how AWS enables the automation of deploying a DPI-based solution stack. We highlight Sunbird RC (Registry and Credentials) as a real-world digital public goods (DPG) building block. The following example provides an overview and execution of the packaging available in the Sunbird community GitHub repository for provisioning required AWS services and deploying Sunbird RC services.
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AWS Public Sector Blog Team, 03/14/2025Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce that AWS Marketplace has received “Awardable” status in the Department of Defense (DoD) Platform One (P1) Solutions Marketplace. This designation enables DoD organizations to readily access and procure solutions through AWS Marketplace using established acquisition pathways.
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AWS Public Sector Blog Team, 03/11/2025By 2026, more than 90 percent of organizations worldwide will face challenges related to an IT skills shortage. Artificial intelligence skills are among the most in-demand, but a variety of cloud skills like architecture, data management and storage, and software development are among the top 10 needed IT skills. To address these needs, Amazon Web Services hosts AWS State, Local, and Education Learning Days, a series of no-cost in-person events nationwide. These one-day events provide IT professionals and business executives in state and local government (SLG) and education with hands-on learning opportunities to grow their cloud skills. Read this post to learn more.
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Bryana Tucci, 03/10/2025Amazon Web Services today announced the launch of the Federal Addendum to the Standard Contract for AWS Marketplace (SCMP). This novel approach to contracting can help streamline government approvals of software procurement and speed up the government’s access to third-party software solutions using AWS Marketplace by offering a pre-negotiated and consistent end-user license agreement (EULA) for each purchase. Read this post to learn more.
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