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AWS Partner-Led Business Support+
AWS discontinues Developer Support and Business Support on January 1, 2027. Business Support+ replaces both. Through ASCENDING, you get the same AWS plan at 20% off AWS's published rate with no minimum, with plan details and SLAs exactly as AWS publishes them, plus Jarvis AI for your engineers and an AWS MSP team behind your environment. Part of our AWS managed service provider program.
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The MSP designation validates operational maturity, security practices, and AWS expertise. About the AWS MSP program
- 100+
- enterprise customers
- 24/7
- onshore + offshore coverage
- 99.99%
- application uptime
AWS pricing, plan comparison and end-of-support dates last verified against AWS pages on October 31, 2026.
January 1, 2027
Developer and Business Support are being retired
AWS discontinues Developer Support, Business Support and Enterprise On-Ramp on January 1, 2027. Developer and Business Support customers can move to Business Support+ at any time before then; Enterprise On-Ramp customers are upgraded to Enterprise Support during 2026.
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Business Support+ is billed per account, so start with every account and its monthly charges.
Estimate the fee
Apply the per-account rate with the calculator below.
Pick the plan
A PPA or a need for a designated TAM points to Enterprise Support instead.
Switch before Jan 1, 2027
Move any time before the retirement date to avoid a gap.
Source: AWS end of support notice. GovCloud keeps the existing plans.
Which plan
Business Support+ or Enterprise Support?
The deciding factors are a PPA, a designated TAM and how fast you need a critical response.
| Feature | Business Support+ | Enterprise Support |
|---|---|---|
| AWS starting price | $29 a month per account | $5,000 a month |
| Critical response | Under 30 minutes | Under 15 minutes |
| Expert access | 24/7 AWS experts | Designated TAM |
| Satisfies a PPA | No | Yes |
| AWS positioning | Production workloads | Business-critical workloads |
| Through ASCENDING | 20% off, no minimum, Jarvis AI | 30% off, hands-on-keyboard |
Plan details
What AWS Business Support+ includes
As published by AWS. ASCENDING does not change the plan’s scope or SLAs.
AI-powered troubleshooting
Contextual recommendations across your AWS environment.
30-minute critical response
Support engineers engage within 30 minutes for critical production issues.
Proactive health checks
Infrastructure monitoring through AWS Trusted Advisor and AWS Health.
AWS DevOps Agent
Automated operational insights for your workloads.
Cost and billing guidance
Cost optimization and billing guidance from AWS.
Same commitments
Response-time SLAs
AWS Business Support+ response times, as published by AWS.
| Priority | Severity level | Response | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| Critical | Business-critical system down | 30 minutes | Major outage; loss of entire enterprise or customer base. Potential for large revenue loss or business risk. |
| Urgent | Production system down | 1 hour | Business significantly impacted; important functions or applications aren’t available. |
| High | Production system impaired | 4 hours | Critical functions of your applications are impaired or degraded. |
| Normal | System impaired | 12 hours | Non-critical applications behaving abnormally; time-sensitive development question. |
| Low | General guidance | 24 hours | General development or service questions, or feature requests. |
AWS makes every reasonable effort to respond to the initial request within these timeframes. AWS plan details.
Free AI Assistance for MSP Customers
Jarvis AI for AWS troubleshooting and technical guidance
An AI tool to assist with your day-to-day operations on AWS. Jarvis AI provides a governed connection between your AWS environment and your engineers' favorite IDE.
AWS Knowledge MCP Server
AWS’s managed server for documentation, API references, Well-Architected guidance and troubleshooting content. It needs no AWS account or authentication.
Learn moreAWS MCP Server
AWS’s server for account troubleshooting through API calls, run under each engineer’s own IAM permissions and logged to CloudTrail.
Learn moreGoverned by Jarvis
One setup for every engineer’s IDE. SSO and identity groups decide who reaches each server, and admins switch individual tools on or off. AWS-side identity and permissions control actions inside AWS.
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Business Support+ pricing calculator
AWS bills Business Support+ per account: the greater of $29 or 9% of the first $10,000, 7% to $80,000, 5% to $250,000 and 3% above. ASCENDING delivers it at 20% off the tiered rate, with no minimum fee. Enter one account’s monthly AWS charges.
Enter the gross monthly charges for one AWS account. AWS applies a $29 retail minimum; ASCENDING charges 80% of the tiered fee without that minimum. Multi-account bills must be calculated account by account. Estimates support charges up to $5,000,000.
- AWS retail Business Support+
- $1,950/mo
- ASCENDING Business Support+
- $1,560/mo
You save
$390 /month
$4,680 per yearFAQ
AWS Partner-Led Business Support+ questions
AWS’s paid support plan for production workloads, with 24/7 access to AWS experts, AI-powered troubleshooting and a 30-minute response for critical issues. It starts at $29 a month per account.
AWS discontinues both on January 1, 2027. You can keep your current plan until then or move to Business Support+ at any time before it. The existing plans remain available in AWS GovCloud (US).
AWS bills it per account: the greater of $29 or 9% of the first $10,000 of monthly charges, 7% to $80,000, 5% to $250,000 and 3% above.
No. A cross-service Private Pricing Agreement requires Enterprise Support, which an authorized partner such as ASCENDING can provide.
20% off AWS’s published per-account rate, with no minimum fee.
The AWS plan and its SLAs stay exactly as AWS publishes them. ASCENDING MSP customers also get Jarvis AI free, a governed connection from your engineers’ IDEs to AWS’s MCP servers.
Guides
AWS support plan guides
- AWS Support Plans 2026: What Changed and Which to Pick Business Support+, Enterprise Support and Unified Operations side by side.
- Is AWS Enterprise Support Worth It? Four tests against your AWS bill to decide between Business Support+ and Enterprise Support.
- Compare AWS support plans Business Support+, Enterprise Support and Unified Operations, and how to buy each.
Sources
Standards and references
- AWS Business Support+ plan AWS’s published plan details and response times.
- AWS Support pricing AWS’s published per-account Business Support+ rates.
- AWS Support plans end of support AWS’s notice on discontinuing Developer, Business and Enterprise On-Ramp support.
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