Plan for election season with confidence using AWS Countdown Premium
Optimize your election infrastructure for operational readiness with guidance from AWS experts
Ready to sign up for AWS Countdown Premium?
To receive your 50% off promotion offer*, enter the code “CDP50” in the “Primary AWS Service” field on the sign-up form.
Engage with designated specialist engineers for context-specific guidance to help ensure your election-related infrastructure and applications are ready.
Access proven runbooks and AWS experts to plan capacity and establish operational readiness for your election events.
Receive real-time troubleshooting and rapid issue resolution when it counts during election events.
Tailor engagement to your election schedule through an easy monthly subscription with no term commitments.1
With local and national elections around the corner, it’s critical to prepare for the months ahead. Whether you’re gearing up for more traffic or supporting voters and candidates with your technology solutions, you know you need to be prepared. Ensuring your election infrastructure is ready, that your applications can handle what’s coming, and that you have the right data analytics in place, is more important than ever this year.
AWS Countdown Premium, an AWS Support offering designed for critical events2, applies the same best practices used for major events, like Amazon Prime Day. If you need to scale your team with skilled cloud expertise to evaluate your operational readiness and plan for election season, Countdown Premium is available when you need it.
With Countdown Premium, you’ll get:
- Critical support at every step of your election planning and execution, from design to post-launch retrospectives.
- Designated engineers selected from a team of AWS experts provide proactive guidance and troubleshooting, with the cloud expertise you can trust.
- Expert-led engagements like AWS Well-Architected assessments, security reviews, infrastructure capacity planning, and critical event calls, helping you meet the needs of your election infrastructure and applications.
- Support for your team in learning critical cloud skills as you prepare and execute on your election strategy, all while providing rapid issue resolution at every step of the way.
AWS Countdown Premium engagements for election-related use cases require 6-8 weeks of lead time. The extent of assessment and/or guidance that is provided is dependent on the pre-event timeline.
“In the first electoral contest of the 2024 US Presidential election, we supported thousands of Iowa Caucus site locations where voting took place, using tools and technology for vote reporting using AWS services on behalf of our customer. With millions of eyes watching our technology and the results being reported, any outage or error would be noticed quickly and would inject uncertainty into the election results, which meant that we needed a highly tailored support solution. AWS Countdown Premium was crucial to our success, allowing our team to leverage AWS experts in real-time to support our applications and deployments on AWS, and to help us triage and resolve any issues that arose during this high profile event. AWS Countdown Premium was integral to our customer satisfaction on this project, delivering results that our customer was quite happy with - full Iowa Caucus reported votes by 1AM on Caucus night, a first of its kind.”
Mark Stephenson, CEO at Red Oak Strategic
Use Cases
Secure voting systems
Help ensure the security and integrity of your voting systems to ensure transparency, and improve your risk posture to combat the increasing threat of cyber-attacks. The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) declared the electoral system as ‘critical infrastructure’, which places election infrastructure in the same category as the US power grid or financial sector.2
Scale election event infrastructure
Implement the right technology to support election-related events, ensuring cloud infrastructure scales with increasing traffic by employing best practices for performance and resiliency.
Optimize performance for election results
Design systems that support real-time data ingestion, perform analysis, and render up-to-the-minute election results for your audience. The infrastructure should auto scale with increasing users with no impact to performance along with cost optimization.
Limited time promotional pricing
AWS Countdown Premium is available via an easy subscription just for the time you need it to help ensure your live event is successful. As a valued AWS customer, we’re offering 50% off the AWS Countdown Premium subscription fee of $10,000 US/month per project team with a promotional rate of $5000 monthly for the first two months. There is no long-term commitment and you can subscribe just for the time you need.1
How to get started
Want to speak to someone about your election planning-related needs?
Ready to sign up for AWS Countdown Premium?
To receive your 50% off promotion offer1, enter the code “CDP50” in the “Primary AWS Service” field on the sign-up form.
Learn more about preparing for election season with AWS Countdown Premium
1: From [July 1, 2024 12:00:00 pm UTC] to [November 15, 2024 12:00:00 pm UTC], eligible customers can purchase AWS Countdown Premium at the promotional rate of $5,000 per month for 60 consecutive days up to $10,000. Limited quantities are available at this discounted price. Terms and conditions apply. Requires an active AWS Support subscription to AWS Enterprise Support, Enterprise On-Ramp, or Business Support plan. AWS Countdown Premium is available for a fixed duration in monthly increments, with a minimum of one (1) month subscription. It is available in English, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese for workloads hosted in all available AWS Regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, except the AWS China Regions. As a premium AWS Support Service, AWS Countdown Premium is supported by a global team of engineers. Please allow at least three weeks before an event to allow for sufficient planning time. Enter the promo code “CDP50” in the "Primary AWS Service” field of the sign up form during the promo period to qualify for the promotion.
2. https://www.dhs.gov/topics/election-security