We’re Now AWS Select Partners!
SpaceDev has joined the AWS Partner Network (APN), Amazon Web Services’ global program for companies that build and deliver solutions on its platform.
It’s a step that formalizes what we’ve been doing for years: designing, building, and operating software systems that run on AWS infrastructure for companies in Latin America and abroad. It also introduces a clearer framework for how that work is validated, documented, and improved over time.
What the Partnership Represents
The AWS Partner Network is a structured system that requires partners to demonstrate technical capabilities, maintain trained and certified teams, and follow AWS architectural and security best practices.
Participation in the APN gives SpaceDev access to:
AWS training and certification programs for its engineering and architecture teams
Technical guidance aligned with AWS reference architectures
Validation paths that require documented experience, customer outcomes, and technical review
This matters for clients because it replaces informal claims of expertise with externally defined standards.
The Client Experience
Becoming an AWS Partner doesn’t change how SpaceDev approaches projects overnight. What it does change is the level of structure behind decisions that already influence cloud-based systems.
Projects built under the AWS Partner framework are expected to align with AWS principles around:
security and identity management
reliability and fault tolerance
scalability and performance under growth
cost control and operational visibility
These principles are embedded in AWS reviews, training materials, and partner validation programs, which require showing how systems are designed and operated in practice.
“AWS-Validated” Solutions
AWS doesn’t certify every individual application built by its partners, but it validates specific capabilities through programs such as service specializations and competencies.
When SpaceDev refers to AWS-validated work, it means:
systems designed according to AWS architectural best practices, and
delivery processes that are eligible for AWS validations, which require technical evidence and customer references.
The goal is consistency: fewer ad-hoc architectural choices and more repeatable, well-understood patterns.
The Bottom Line
As companies scale their digital operations, cloud infrastructure becomes harder to change and more expensive to get wrong. Architecture decisions made early tend to persist for years.
Joining the AWS Partner Network is part of SpaceDev’s effort to reduce that long-term risk for clients by aligning its cloud work with a widely adopted, externally governed framework rather than internal preferences alone.
What’s Next
SpaceDev will continue investing in AWS training and certifications, and will pursue additional AWS partner validations as part of its cloud practice.
The partnership isn’t positioned as a milestone, but as an operating standard for how SpaceDev designs, delivers, and maintains cloud-based systems going forward.
