Plan for sports, gaming, and entertainment events with confidence using AWS Countdown Premium

Optimize your cloud infrastructure for operational readiness with guidance from AWS experts.

Ready to sign up for AWS Countdown Premium?

To receive your 50% off promotion offer*, enter the code “CDP50” in the “Primary AWS Service” field on the sign-up form.

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

Access proven runbooks and AWS experts to plan capacity and establish operational readiness for your next sports, sports gaming, or entertainment event.

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

Tailor engagement to your event schedule through an easy monthly subscription with no term commitments.*

With audiences increasing for sporting, entertainment, and online betting events, it’s critical to prepare for the months ahead. Whether you’re gearing up for more traffic, supporting a major event, or running a high-visibility sales campaign, you know you need to be prepared. Ensuring your cloud infrastructure is ready, your applications can handle what’s coming, and that you have the right security posture in place, is more important than ever for the big event.

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, security, and to plan for major sporting events, Countdown Premium is available when you need it.

With Countdown Premium, you’ll get:

  • Critical support at every step of your major sports event 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 event-related infrastructure and applications
  • Team learning of critical cloud skills as you prepare and execute on your event strategy, all while receiving rapid issue resolution at every step of the way.

Use Cases

Scale your 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.

Secure your systems

Help ensure the security and integrity of your systems with planning, execution, and rapid issue resolution from AWS experts.

Sports gaming

Scale your team with skilled cloud expertise to evaluate your operational readiness, plan, and provide rapid support during gaming events.

"DoorDash received support from AWS Countdown Premium, a service for optimizing business-critical events, launches, and migrations on AWS, 11 days before finishing the website. It was invaluable to have dedicated support engineers from AWS. The engineers would get back to us very quickly with resolutions or suggestions.”

Brian Alexander, Technical Program Manager at DoorDash

Limited time promotional pricing

AWS Countdown Premium is available via an easy subscription just for the time you need it to help ensure your live event is successful. As a valued AWS customer, we’re offering 50% off the AWS Countdown Premium subscription fee of $10,000 US/month per project team with a promotional rate of $5000 monthly for the first two months. There is no long-term commitment and you can subscribe just for the time you need*.

“With help from a team of AWS experts, we successfully cut-over the production environment within 4 hours- which equates to 20% in time savings. AWS Countdown Premium accomplished the workload that would previously require 5 people to monitor in the war room. With AWS  Countdown Premium, we feel more confident to execute such a huge event.”

William Hsieh, System Planning Sector Manager at Neweb Tech Co. LTD

How to get started

Want to speak to someone about your event planning needs?

Ready to sign up for AWS Countdown Premium?

To receive your 50% off promotion offer*, enter the code “CDP50” in the “Primary AWS Service” field on the sign-up form.

*From [July 1, 2024 12:00:00 pm UTC] to [November 15, 2024 12:00:00 pm UTC], eligible customers can purchase AWS Countdown Premium at the promotional rate of $5,000 per month for 60 consecutive days up to $10,000. Limited quantities are available at this discounted price. Terms and conditions apply. Requires an active AWS Support subscription to AWS Enterprise Support, Enterprise On-Ramp, or Business Support plan. AWS Countdown Premium is available for a fixed duration in monthly increments, with a minimum of one (1) month subscription. It is available in English, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese for workloads hosted in all available AWS Regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, except the AWS China Regions. As a premium AWS Support Service, AWS Countdown Premium is supported by a global team of engineers. Please allow at least three weeks before an event to allow for sufficient planning time. Enter the promo code “CDP50” in the “Primary AWS Service” field of the sign up form during the promo period to qualify for the promotion.