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The AWS Service Ready Program is an AWS Specialization Program 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 Specialization helps AWS Partners promote their software products globally. Through this AWS Specialization, 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 Specializations below.
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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 Specialization
Choose the AWS Service Ready Specialization that align best with your organization’s offering, and review requirements associated with each specialization.
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Step 4: Apply
- Upon meeting the program requirements, you can apply to the AWS Service Ready Program in Partner Central by navigating to Programs > Program Applications.
- 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 meeting the program requirements, you can apply to the AWS Service Ready Program in Partner Central by navigating to Programs > Program Applications.
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Step 5: Unlock Benefits
Upon achieving the AWS Service Ready Specialization, 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.
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 Specializations
Identify the AWS Service Ready Specialization that aligns best with your software product(s). You may apply for one or more specializations depending on which AWS services your software products work with. AWS Service Ready specializations are chosen based on various factors including a high customer demand for validated AWS Partners Software Products to help customers solve business challenges on AWS.

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.



Amazon EC2 Spot Ready Software Products enable customers to take advantage of Amazon EC2 Spot and unlock savings of up to 90% from on demand. Amazon EC2 Spot Ready product integrations are vetted for following AWS Spot best practices and support workload deployments on Amazon EC2 Spot instances.

Amazon SageMaker Ready Software Products help customers seamlessly execute use cases across the machine learning lifecycle. These software products have been validated for following AWS best practices to bring simplicity and ease of use to customers.

AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) Ready Products offers customers a simple solution to deploying and maintaining their application layer security solution. AWS WAF Ready software products provide robust WAF rule sets and mitigation tools that customers can choose depending on their specific application use case.

Amazon Connect Ready partners have proven themselves to be industry leaders in innovating the contact center experience. Implementing software solutions through Amazon Connect Ready Partners has shown to decrease the stress on customer contact centers by focusing on Omnichannel Customer Experiences / Agent Empowerment and Productivity Solutions / Analytics, Insights & Optimizations and providing Self-serve Configuration and Management tools that support business agility and innovation.