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AWS AI Competency Partners
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About AWS AI Competency Partners
AWS AI Competency Partners are validated experts helping organizations deploy production-ready AI systems that drive real business value. With fewer than 40% of organizations beyond the experimental phase, these partners specialize in sophisticated AI workloads capable of perceiving environments, reasoning over goals, and taking purposeful actions with minimal human intervention. They represent the highest level of validation for partners across Agentic AI and Generative AI categories, ensuring the highest standards of security, reliability, and operational excellence for customers.
These partners are the go-to experts in implementing AI solutions that create value and drive business growth for AWS customers globally. They have proven expertise, field experience, and successful projects using AI tools from AWS to craft innovative solutions, enabling the building, training, deployment, and utilization of foundation models in creative ways at scale.
Leveraging optimized AI inference, robust compute platforms, seamless identity integration, strong security, and responsible AI policies to earn and maintain customer trust, these partners lead the way in developing the services, applications, tools, and infrastructure necessary for building and deploying advanced AI technologies into production.
AWS AI Competency Partners enhance application development and deliver significant cost savings in both training and inference processes. They possess a unique skill set that enables them to create and launch transformative applications across a wide range of industries.
Explore AWS AI Competency Partners
From Service Partners offering professional services to Software Partners providing tools that provide customer value along all parts of the AWS AI stack, browse the Partner Solution Finder by category to quickly locate the right partner in your region for the job.
Agentic AI
Partners in the Agentic AI category offer solutions and services that enable the safe and secure deployment of production-grade, agentic AI systems on AWS and its Agentic AI Marketplace. These systems are capable of autonomous reasoning, planning, collaboration, tool usage, execution, and self-improvement, thereby delivering measurable business value.
Generative AI
Partners in the Generative AI category offer solutions that leverage foundation models (FMs) and related technologies for implementing vertical-specific use cases (for example: Patient experience, EHR Analysis, Drug Discovery, financial products profiling, financial advice, production planning, quality inspection, virtual shopping assistants, and product descriptions generation) and horizontal use cases that impact all verticals (for example, service desks, knowledge management, self-service, employees onboarding, procurement, and IT service management).
AWS AI Competency Partner Solutions in AWS Marketplace
AWS Marketplace helps organizations discover, procure, experiment with, provision, and govern third-party software, data, and services. From FMs to tooling, applications to consultants and third-party data, find an AI solution provider to kick-start your transformation journey.
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How to join the AI Competency
Is your company looking to partner with AWS and demonstrate its leadership position in AI? Follow these steps to enroll in the AWS AI Competency.
Step 1: Join the AWS Partner Network
Upon joining the AWS Partner Network (APN), enroll in the Partner Path(s) based on your customer offering. The APN is a global community of partners that leverages programs, expertise, and resources to build, market, and sell customer solutions. Whether you are starting your business or looking to expand, join the APN at no cost and utilize enablement resources, well-architected tools, and more.
Step 2: Enroll in the AWS Partner Path(s)
- For organizations that develop software that runs on or is integrated with AWS, enroll in the Software Path and meet the minimum validation criteria i.e. successfully complete the AWS Foundational Technical Review (FTR). Learn more about AWS FTR
- For organizations that leverage AWS to deliver consulting, professional, managed, and resale services, enroll in the Services Path and meet the minimum validation criteria i.e. achieve AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner. Learn more about AWS Partner Tier requirements
- For organizations that develop hardware devices that work with AWS, enroll in the Hardware Path and meet the minimum validation criteria i.e. have a validated device qualification. Learn how to validate your hardware with AWS Device Qualification Program
Step 3: Access resources and trainings in the AI & Data Knowledge Hub for AWS Partners
- Visit the AI & Data Knowledge Hub in Partner Central to stay current on the latest AI trends, top use cases, Partner Playbook, AWS Service Asset Packs, and leading generative and agentic AI research.
Step 4: Choose the AWS AI Competency and Review Program requirements
- Access the validation checklists available in Partner Central that aligns best with your AWS Partner Path (Services of Software)
- Under the “Use Case” tab on the AWS Competency page, find ‘AI’ and select the competency requirements outlined in the Validation Checklist that aligns best with your AWS Partner Path (Services of Software).
- Start with the AWS Competency Navigate Track, available in Partner Central, for prescriptive guidance to grow your expertise and meet the AWS Competency requirements faster.
Step 5: Unlock benefits
Upon achieving the AWS AI Competency, your alliance leader will receive a welcome email outlining the benefits your company can take advantage of, including your AWS Partner Badge. This email and our benefits guide will help you make the most of the go to market benefits, recognition, early access, AWS expert engagement, financial incentives, and ways to upskill on AWS that you gain through the program.
