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What is the AWS Service Delivery Program?

The AWS Service Delivery Program is an AWS Specialization Program designed to validate AWS Partners that have deep technical knowledge, experience, and proven success in delivering specific AWS services to customers.

From helping customers run serverless code with AWS Lambda to deploying managed, secure, reliable, and high-performing Windows-based solutions on Amazon EC2 Windows, AWS Service Delivery Partners are specialized to support customers' unique use cases.

Explore benefits, success stories, how to get started, and AWS Service Delivery specializations below.

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Join the AWS Partner Network

Join the AWS Partner Network (APN) at no cost by creating your AWS Partner Central account.

Become an AWS Partner

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Enroll in the Services Path

Enroll in the Services Path, specifically designed for organizations that leverage AWS to deliver consulting, professional, managed, and resale services.

Upon meeting the minimum validation criteria for the Services Path, i.e., achieve AWS Partner Select Tier, become eligible to apply for the AWS Service Delivery Specializations.

Learn more about AWS Partner Tier requirements

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Choose your AWS Service Delivery Specialization

Choose the AWS Service Delivery Specialization that align best with your organization’s offering, and review requirements associated with each specialization.

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Apply

Upon meeting the program requirements, you can apply to the AWS Service Delivery Program in AWS 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 Delivery Program Guide available in AWS Partner Central.

Log in to AWS Partner Central

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Unlock benefits

Upon achieving the AWS Service Delivery 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.

Access Benefits Guide in AWS Partner Central

AWS Service Delivery Specializations

Identify the AWS Service Delivery Specialization that aligns best with your offering. You may apply for one or more specializations depending on your business needs. AWS services with specializations in the AWS Service Delivery Program are chosen based on factors including a high customer demand for validated, experienced AWS Partners to help them be successful with that service.

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Database Services

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Amazon RDS Partners deliver solutions to help customers manage complex and time-consuming work including new Amazon RDS implementations, database migrations, and building compatible tools. Amazon RDS Partners deliver solutions across seven database engines: Aurora MySQL, Aurora PostgreSQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, and SQL Server.

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AWS Database Migration Service Partners help customers migrate databases to AWS easily and securely while minimizing application downtime. AWS Database Migration Service Partners support both homogeneous migrations such as Oracle to Oracle, as well as heterogeneous migrations between different database platforms, such as Oracle to Amazon Aurora or Microsoft SQL Server to MySQL.

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Amazon DynamoDB Partners help customers deploy Amazon DynamoDB, a fast and flexible NoSQL serverless database service for all applications that need consistent, single-digit millisecond latency at any scale.

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Compute Services

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Amazon EC2 for Windows Server Partners deliver services for Amazon EC2, managing secure, reliable, and high-performance environments for deploying Windows-based applications and workloads.

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Amazon EKS Partners have experience and a deep understanding to deploy, secure and operationalize modern applications on Amazon EKS.

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AWS Graviton Partners help customers accelerate and scale adoption of AWS Graviton so they can realize the price performance benefits sooner across more workloads. 

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Amazon ECS Partners help customers take advantage of modernizing their applications to run on containers.

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Networking and Content Delivery Services

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Amazon CloudFront Partners help AWS customers deploy a global content delivery network (CDN) service that accelerates delivery of websites, APIs, video content, or other web assets. By helping customers deploy Amazon CloudFront, these partners give developers and businesses an easy way to optimize performance, accelerate content, and reduce costs.

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AWS Direct Connect Partners provide flexibility and choices on how to connect with AWS, including Dedicated Connections, greater than 500 Mbps capacity Hosted Connections, and enhanced monitoring of the network link between Direct Connect Partners and AWS. To learn more, download the AWS Direct Connect Partner Guide.

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Serverless Computing Services

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AWS Lambda Partners provide services and tools that help customers build or migrate their solutions to a microservices architecture running on serverless computing, which lets you build services and applications without the need for provisioning or managing servers.

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Amazon API Gateway Partners provide tools and services to help customers build, secure, and manage APIs, and API-driven architectures, at any scale.

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Analytics Services

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Amazon EMR Partners help customers to build and deploy big data analytics applications using Amazon EMR, a managed service that makes it easy to run big data frameworks such as Apache Hadoop, Spark, Presto, Hive, and HBase on massively scalable clusters.

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Amazon Kinesis Partners help customers deploy Amazon Kinesis, a platform for streaming data on AWS. These partners offer powerful services to make it easy to load and analyze streaming data, and also provide the ability to build custom streaming data applications for specialized needs.

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Amazon Redshift Partners deploy analytics solutions leveraging Amazon Redshift as data warehouse and extract-load-transform service. These partners develop solutions that integrate Amazon Redshift with purpose-built AWS analytics services, providing customers a modern scalable, secure, and cost-effective analytics solution.

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Amazon QuickSight Partners help AWS customers to develop meaningful business insights through Amazon Quicksight to automatically scale tens to tens of thousands of users without any infrastructure to manage. Additionally, Amazon QuickSight Partners help customers to scale their BI solution to minimize cost and optimize performance.

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Amazon OpenSearch Service Partners make it easier for customers to perform interactive log analytics, real-time application monitoring, website search, and more. 

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Amazon MSK Partners make it easy for customers to build real-time data streaming solutions and implement an event driven architecture that can scale automatically without any infrastructure to manage. These partners offer superior services that make it easy to ingest, process and analyze streaming data, providing customers a modern scalable, secure, and cost-effective streaming solution.

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AWS Glue Partners help customers with AWS Glue for data integration, data pipeline, and data catalogue use cases. 

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Management Tools

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AWS CloudFormation Partners enable AWS customers, developers, and system administrators develop an easy way to use infrastructure as code. They provide an easy way to create and manage a collection of related AWS resources, provisioning and updating them in an orderly and predictable fashion.

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AWS Service Catalog Partners help create catalogs of IT services that are approved by the customer’s organization for use on AWS. With AWS Service Catalog, customers and partners can centrally manage commonly deployed IT services to help achieve consistent governance and meet compliance requirements while enabling users to self-provision approved services.

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AWS Config Partners enable AWS customers to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of their AWS resources. With AWS Config, customers and AWS Partners can review changes in configurations and relationships between AWS resources, dive into detailed resource configuration histories, and determine overall compliance against the configurations specified.

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AWS Systems Manager Partners enable AWS customers to automatically collect software inventory, apply OS patches, create system images, configure Windows and Linux operating systems, and automate operational tasks. Through AWS Systems Manager Partners, customers can easily operate and manage infrastructure securely at scale.

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IoT Services

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AWS IoT Core Partners leverage deep technical expertise using AWS IoT Core to improve customer experience and outcomes by choosing the best approach for the design and implementation of IoT solutions that are optimized for cost, reliability, security, performance, and scalability.

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AWS IoT Greengrass Partners improve customer outcomes by applying their demonstrated experience in building IoT solutions with local edge device intelligence.

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Customer Engagement

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Amazon Connect Partners help improve customer experience and business outcomes by choosing the best approach for the design and implementation of contact center solutions using Amazon Connect with a view to optimize cost, reliability, security, performance, and scalability.

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Security Services

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AWS WAF Partners help customers implement AWS WAF to protect their web applications from common web exploits that could affect application availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources.

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AWS Security Incident Response Delivery Partners help customers prepare for, respond to, and recover from security events. Validated partners use Security Incident Response and work in tandem with AWS to to mitigate threats to customer environments.  

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GovCloud

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AWS GovCloud (US) Partners help US government and regulated industry customers with architecting, operating, and managing workloads in AWS GovCloud (US) regions. They help customers handling sensitive data and workloads implement mission-oriented systems and applications in the region that address compliance standards (e.g. FedRAMP, SRG, ITAR, CJIS), reduce costs, drive efficiencies, and increase innovation.

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Migration and Transfer

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AWS Transfer Family Delivery Partners build sophisticated B2B file exchange solutions with AWS Transfer Family while leveraging Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) for secure data storage and other AWS services, including AI and Amazon Machine Learning (Amazon ML), for data processing and analytics.

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Management and Governance

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AWS Control Tower Partners provide services including customized controls, account factory, regulatory compliance solutions, and enterprise-specific solutions such as Internet of Things (IOT), containerization, and data lakes.

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