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Getting started

This section describes what you must do before using the ACE Pipeline Manager, and its main features, accessible from the Sell menu in AWS Partner Central.

ACE terms and conditions

Prior to participating in the ACE program, the Alliance Lead in your organization must sign in to AWS Partner Central and accept the ACE terms and conditions.

To accept ACE terms and conditions

  1. Sign in to AWS Partner Central as a user with the alliance lead role.

  2. Choose Sell in the top menu bar.

  3. Read the terms and conditions and choose Accept.

Note

After accepting the terms and conditions, only the alliance lead can access ACE Pipeline Manager. The alliance lead can assign permissions to ACE Pipeline Manager to other AWS Partner Central users. For more information, refer to Permissions

To refer to the ACE terms and conditions

  1. In AWS Partner Central, in the AWS Partner Path section, choose View Scorecard.

  2. Choose Additional Details.

  3. Choose ACE Program Terms Acceptance Date.

Permissions

The ACE Pipeline Manager is permission-based. Upon acceptance of the ACE terms and conditions, only the alliance lead will have access to the ACE Pipeline Manager and will need to enable permissions for other AWS Partner Central users.

The alliance lead or an alliance team user can assign ACE user or ACE manager permissions. It can take up to one hour for the permissions to fully activate after they are assigned.

The ACE user role can be assigned to an unlimited number of users, and provides users access to view and manage opportunities submitted by themselves, and to leads and opportunities in which they are the owner.

The ACE manager role can be assigned to up to 20 users, and provides users access to view and manage opportunities submitted by any Partner user and access to all leads and opportunities shared by AWS.

Available users are individuals in your firm with an active AWS Partner Central account. To enable new users to create a AWS Partner Central account, direct them to Sign up for APN.

To grant the ACE user or ACE manager roles

  1. Sign in to AWS Partner Central as a user with the Alliance Lead or Alliance Team role.

  2. Choose My Company, User Management.

  3. Choose Manage ACE Pipeline Manager Users.

  4. Choose a user from the Available users list.

  5. Choose Make ACE user or Make ACE manager.

  6. On the Update User Role dialog box, choose OK.

APN Customer Engagements Program eligibility

For requirements for AWS Partners to be able to receive leads and opportunities, refer to APN Customer Engagements.