Plan for election season with confidence using AWS Countdown Premium

Optimize your election infrastructure for operational readiness with guidance from AWS experts

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Engage with designated specialist engineers for context-specific guidance to help ensure your election-related infrastructure and applications are ready.

Access proven runbooks and AWS experts to plan capacity and establish operational readiness for your election events.

Receive real-time troubleshooting and rapid issue resolution when it counts during election events.

Tailor engagement to your election schedule through an easy monthly subscription with no term commitments.1

With local and national elections around the corner, it’s critical to prepare for the months ahead. Whether you’re gearing up for more traffic or supporting voters and candidates with your technology solutions, you know you need to be prepared. Ensuring your election infrastructure is ready, that your applications can handle what’s coming, and that you have the right data analytics in place, is more important than ever this year.

AWS Countdown Premium, an AWS Support offering designed for critical events*, applies the same best practices used for major events, like Amazon Prime Day. If you need to scale your team with skilled cloud expertise to evaluate your operational readiness and plan for election season, Countdown Premium is available when you need it.

With Countdown Premium, you’ll get:

  • Critical support at every step of your election planning and execution, from design to post-launch retrospectives. 
  • Designated engineers selected from a team of AWS experts provide proactive guidance and troubleshooting, with the cloud expertise you can trust. 
  • Expert-led engagements like AWS Well-Architected assessments, security reviews, infrastructure capacity planning, and critical event calls, helping you meet the needs of your election infrastructure and applications.
  • Support for your team in learning critical cloud skills as you prepare and execute on your election strategy, all while providing rapid issue resolution at every step of the way.

AWS Countdown Premium engagements for election-related use cases require 6-8 weeks of lead time. The extent of assessment and/or guidance that is provided is dependent on the pre-event timeline.

Plan for election season with confidence using AWS Countdown Premium

“In the first electoral contest of the 2024 US Presidential election, we supported thousands of Iowa Caucus site locations where voting took place, using tools and technology for vote reporting using AWS services on behalf of our customer. With millions of eyes watching our technology and the results being reported, any outage or error would be noticed quickly and would inject uncertainty into the election results, which meant that we needed a highly tailored support solution. AWS Countdown Premium was crucial to our success, allowing our team to leverage AWS experts in real-time to support our applications and deployments on AWS, and to help us triage and resolve any issues that arose during this high profile event. AWS Countdown Premium was integral to our customer satisfaction on this project, delivering results that our customer was quite happy with - full Iowa Caucus reported votes by 1AM on Caucus night, a first of its kind.”

Mark Stephenson, CEO at Red Oak Strategic

 

Red Oak Strategic and AWS: Powering the Future of Elections

Use Cases

Secure voting systems

Help ensure the security and integrity of your voting systems to ensure transparency, and improve your risk posture to combat the increasing threat of cyber-attacks. The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) declared the electoral system as ‘critical infrastructure’, which places election infrastructure in the same category as the US power grid or financial sector.2

Scale election event infrastructure

Implement the right technology to support election-related events, ensuring cloud infrastructure scales with increasing traffic by employing best practices for performance and resiliency.

Optimize performance for election results

Design systems that support real-time data ingestion, perform analysis, and render up-to-the-minute election results for your audience. The infrastructure should auto scale with increasing users with no impact to performance along with cost optimization.

How to get started

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