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New FDE Pathways For AWS Partners: Get Ready for Production Agentic AI Delivery<\/p>\n

By: Karthik Sonti. Head of Agentic AI, Consulting Partners Growth & Strategy \u2013 AWS<\/em>By: Erik Farr, Director of Solution Architecture, Consulting Partners Growth & Strategy \u2013 AWS<\/em>By: Priya Bains, Head of Partner Brand and Content Strategy \u2013 AWS<\/em><\/p>\n

Production agentic AI requires engineering depth that most organizations are still building. On June 30, AWS announced the Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE)<\/a> organization, backed by a $1 billion investment, and extended this hands-on delivery approach to AWS Partners through the Partner-Led FDE motion. Now, AWS Partners have a structured way to build and validate that depth with three new Partner FDE pathways and credentials that recognize the applied proficiency required to deliver production agentic AI.<\/p>\n

Starting today, AWS Partners can access the three FDE pathways at no cost through AWS Skill Builder: Ground, Orchestrate, and Prove. Two credentials, FDE Validated and FDE Advanced, recognize different levels of technical depth. They are earned through hands-on validation in AWS-provisioned environments, not solely through course completion or multiple-choice tests<\/p>\n

Why this matters<\/h2>\n

Moving agentic AI from demonstration to production requires both a measurable business outcome and the engineering depth to deliver it. The system must connect to authoritative business data, coordinate workflows reliably, recover from failures, and meet enterprise security and governance requirements. These demands span different disciplines, and expecting every engineer to be equally deep in all of them doesn\u2019t scale. Partners who build this depth now will be positioned to meet the demand FDE is designed to serve.<\/p>\n

The pathways give partner organizations a structured way to build, assess, and scale this depth. As builders earn credentials and apply these capabilities, reusable connectors, domain ontologies, agent patterns, and operations tooling compound into a stronger delivery practice. That depth matters to customer<\/a>s. Partner FDE credentials provide evidence of what individual builders have demonstrated, and customers can choose the delivery model that fits: first-party AWS FDE, an AWS-led engagement with partner specialists, or Partner-Led FDE.<\/p>\n

Three capabilities required for production<\/h2>\n

A demonstration can show that an agent works once. A production system must do more. Ground, Orchestrate, and Prove divide the production problem into complementary areas of engineering depth:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Pathway<\/td>\nSe concentrer<\/td>\nProduction question<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ground<\/td>\nTrusted enterprise data, systems, domain ontologies, and business context<\/td>\nDoes the system understand the business and use reliable information?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Orchestrate<\/td>\nDependable agents, tools, workflows, identity, and recovery<\/td>\nCan the system perform real work reliably?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Prove<\/td>\nEvaluation, observability, security, policy, and human control<\/td>\nCan the customer trust it in production?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

These are technical capability pathways, not separate delivery models or fixed job titles. Builders can develop depth in one or more pathways. For customer delivery, partners bring the necessary capabilities together around the problem being solved<\/p>\n

How Partner FDE readiness works<\/h2>\n

Credential attainment is based on what builders can demonstrate, not what courses they\u2019ve completed. Preparation rese them for additional context or proceed directly when ready<\/p>\n

Four steps to earn a credential:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Meet the AWS Certification prerequisite.<\/strong> An active AWS Certification is required for the credential being pursued.<\/li>\n
  2. Choose a pathway in AWS Skill Builder<\/a>.<\/strong> Begin with Ground, Orchestrate, or Prove based on your existing skills and where you want to demonstrate depth.<\/li>\n
  3. Complete the required validation.<\/strong> Finish the published validation activities and point requirements in AWS Skill Builder. Activities can include assessments, SimuLearn, microcredentials, and other hands-on work in AWS-provisioned environments.<\/li>\n
  4. Accept your badge.<\/strong> A badge is automatically issued upon completion.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The credentials recognize two levels of demonstrated depth:<\/p>\n