AWS Well-Architected Partner Program

Adopt AWS best practices, eliminate risks, and build robust applications

What is the AWS Well-Architected Partner Program?

The AWS Well-Architected Partner Program enables consulting, professional or managed services firms to establish good architectural habits, eliminate risk, and respond faster to changes that affect designs, applications, and workloads. AWS Well-Architected Partners gain expertise to build high quality solutions, implement best practices, check the state of workloads, and make improvements per your business and customer needs.

Discover the AWS Well-Architected Partner Program benefits, and how to become an AWS Well-Architected Partner.

New to Well-Architected? Learn how the AWS Well-Architected Framework helps cloud architects build secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure for their applications and workloads.

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AWS Well-Architected Partner Program Benefits

New customer engagements

Leverage AWS Well-Architected Reviews to identify risks, evaluate and improve workloads, leading to better customer outcomes.

Help customers take advantage of AWS Service credits to offset high-risk issue remediation costs, enabling you to build customer trust and long term business relationships.

Adopt AWS best practices

Adopting AWS architectural best practices enables you to save time, costs, drive efficiency and provide fact-based improvement plans to customers to track and improve workload compliance.

Applying AWS best practices to workloads leads to improved customer satisfaction and reduces customer attrition.

Increase your visibility

Gain visibility with customers, AWS field teams, and AWS Partners by being showcased across AWS webpages including the APN Partner Solutions Finder.

Receive an AWS Well-Architected Partner Badge that can be used in joint marketing efforts to showcase your expertise in delivering AWS best practices.

“We love the AWS Well-Architected Review Program. It’s so easy and powerful — it blows my mind that other partners aren’t taking advantage of it.”

- Aaron Sandeen, Cofounder and CEO, Zuggand

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“We get as much out of these Well-Architected Reviews as our customers do. We’re able to learn so much by going through and reviewing customers’ environments; as a result, we figure out different ways to help optimize and educate on best practices.”

- Patrick Duffy, Cloud Architect, Innovative

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“The benefits of being a Well-Architected Partner range from being introduced to new customers to having the ability to display our AWS expertise. By training and keeping up to date on AWS services and best practices — that knowledge benefits our product and service areas.”

- Todd Reese, Vice President of Sales, Eplexity

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“For AWS to recognize us in this way as a trusted partner is a real feather in our cap and reaffirms our commitment to best practice – delivering Well-Architected for the solutions we build for our customers.”

- Rob Greenwood, Technical Director, Steamhaus

“Working with the AWS Well-Architected Partner Program helps establish trust and 'credentialize' yourself on AWS Professional Services.”

- Scott Hankinson, Practice Area Lead, Slalom Atlanta

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AWS Well-Architected Partner Program Journey

If you haven’t already registered your company with the APN, join by creating your APN Partner Central account at no cost.

Follow the below steps to become an AWS Well-Architected Partner and adopt AWS best practices.

Step 1: Meet Requirements
- AWS Advanced and Premier Tier Consulting Partners can join the AWS Well-Architected Partner Program and adopt AWS best practices. Explore AWS Consulting Partner Requirements »
  
  Note: For NAMER and EMEA regions, AWS Select or higher tier Consulting Partners are eligible to apply for the program
- Identify your Practice Leads: AWS Partners must commit to having leaders within your organization to support your AWS Well-Architected practice
  
  Identify one executive sponsor who is an SVP or higher and responsible for integrating Well-Architected into your business: The executive sponsor should have visibility into multiple areas of the organization and can influence adoption and change management
  
  Identify minimum of two Well-Architected Leads globally: The two leads must be AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional; who will be responsible for integrating Well-Architected across sales, delivery, and MSP, and lead initiatives that deploy new workloads that are Well-Architected and/or resolve high risk issues across workloads. Well-Architected Leads are required to attend the AWS Well-Architected Partner Bootcamp
Step 2: Indicate Interest in Joining

Once you have identified your Practice Leads noted in step 1, we recommend you notify your AWS Partner Development Manager (PDM), AWS Partner Solution Architect (PSA), and/or your AWS Alliance Lead to indicate your interest in joining the AWS Well-Architected Partner Program. Alternatively, you can also email us at aws-well-architected-partner@amazon.com.
Step 3: Complete Trainings
All AWS Partners who are interested in joining the Program must complete a series of trainings and participate in meetings in order to attend the AWS Well-Architected Bootcamp. These include:
- Watch the AWS Well-Architected Overview webinar for Program overview, benefits, and requirements
- Participate in the executive sponsorship call (optional): Your executive sponsor should engage with your Partner Development Manager to discuss program goals, objectives of the executive sponsor, success measurement, and to answer any questions related to the program at the business level such as integrating Well-Architected into QA, managed services, and sales
- Watch the Sales and Operations Onboarding Webinar to learn how to integrate AWS Well-Architected into your pre and post-sales business processes
- Attend the Technical Bootcamp: Your Well-Architected Leads are required to attend this bootcamp. Additionally, AWS Certified Solutions Architects can also attend this training
  
  This bootcamp enables your team to conduct AWS Well-Architected reviews for your customers
  
  The all-day bootcamp dives into how to engage with a customer, leverage AWS Well-Architected best practices, and evaluate customer's workloads
- AWS Partners will receive all the relevant Program material you need to adopt AWS Well-Architected practices into your business
Step 4: Start Running Reviews
After successful completion of the technical Bootcamp, you will be sent an email to notify your status as an AWS Well-Architected Partner.
- AWS Partners will be ready to start conducting AWS Well-Architected Reviews and perform workload improvements for customers based on findings from the reviews
- You are now eligible to offer AWS Well-Architected Service Credits to customers upon removing high risk issues
Step 5: Earn the AWS Well-Architected Partner Badge
You will need to meet the below ongoing requirements on an annual basis to earn the AWS Well-Architected Partner badge. Once you meet these requirements, AWS will notify you about your status.
- Must review a minimum of four workloads per quarter
- Remove a minimum of twelve high risk issues (HRIs) per quarter
Earning the AWS Well-Architected Partner Badge enables you to showcase your expertise and drive visibility with customers with funding benefits, and listing on the AWS Partner Solutions Finder.