AWS Resilience Competency Expands to Include Software Partners
Introduction
As organizations increasingly rely on cloud-native applications to run mission‑critical workloads, resilience has become a top business priority. Downtime, data loss, and service disruptions can significantly impact revenue and customer trust. Recognizing this need, AWS continues to evolve its Partner Network by expanding the AWS Resilience Competency to include software partners, enabling a broader ecosystem to build, validate, and showcase resilience‑focused solutions on AWS.
AWS continues to strengthen its Partner Network by expanding the AWS Resilience Competency to include software partners, enabling a broader ecosystem to build, validate, and showcase resilience-focused solutions on AWS.
What Is the AWS Resilience Competency?
The AWS Resilience Competency recognizes AWS Partners that help customers design, build, and operate highly available, fault-tolerant, and recoverable workloads on AWS. These partners demonstrate deep technical expertise and proven customer success in areas such as:
- High availability and fault tolerance
- Backup and restore strategies
- Disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity
- Operational resilience and incident response
- Resilience testing and continuous improvement
Until now, the competency primarily focused on consulting partners. With this expansion, AWS is formally recognizing software partners whose products play a critical role in improving cloud resilience.
Why This Expansion Matters
Modern applications are increasingly complex, distributed, and business‑critical. Customers rely not only on architecture and best practices, but also on software solutions that help automate, test, monitor, and recover workloads during failures.
By including software partners, AWS:
- Acknowledges the role of ISVs in strengthening cloud resilience
- Gives customers more validated options to improve availability and recovery
- Encourages innovation in resilience tooling and automation
- Enables end‑to‑end resilience solutions combining services and software
What This Means for Software Partners
Software partners can now achieve the AWS Resilience Competency by demonstrating that their solutions:
- Integrate natively with AWS services
- Support resilience design principles aligned with the AWS Well‑Architected Framework
- Help customers prevent, withstand, and recover from failures
- Meet AWS technical validation and security requirements
- Show real‑world customer adoption and success
Eligible solutions may include (but are not limited to):
- Backup, restore, and data protection platforms
- Disaster recovery automation tools
- Resilience testing and chaos engineering solutions
- Monitoring, observability, and incident management software
- Availability and failover orchestration tools
Customer Benefits
For AWS customers, this expansion delivers clear value:
- Faster partner discovery: Easily identify software solutions validated by AWS for resilience
- Reduced risk: Confidence that partner solutions align with AWS resilience best practices
- Improved uptime: Access to tools that proactively detect, mitigate, and recover from failures
- Simplified decision‑making: Clear differentiation between general tools and AWS‑validated resilience solutions
Aligning With AWS Well‑Architected Resilience Pillar
The expanded competency strongly aligns with the Reliability and Operational Excellence pillars of the AWS Well‑Architected Framework. Software partners are expected to support:
- Automated recovery from failure
- Continuous testing of resilience mechanisms
- Monitoring of key health indicators
- Operational readiness and incident response
This ensures customers can operationalize resilience—not just design for it.
Looking Ahead
The inclusion of software partners in the AWS Resilience Competency reflects AWS’s commitment to building a resilient cloud ecosystem. As customer expectations for uptime, availability, and recoverability continue to rise, validated software solutions will play an increasingly critical role.
For software partners, this competency opens new opportunities for differentiation, co‑selling with AWS, and deeper customer trust. For customers, it delivers greater confidence that their workloads can withstand disruptions and continue operating when it matters most.
Conclusion
The expansion of the AWS Resilience Competency to include software partners marks an important milestone for the AWS Partner Network. By formally recognizing software solutions that enhance availability, disaster recovery, and operational resilience, AWS is empowering customers to adopt end‑to‑end resilience strategies with confidence. For software partners, this presents a clear pathway to demonstrate expertise, gain visibility, and support customers in building resilient, always‑on applications on AWS.
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