Congrats to Our 2024 AWS Ambassador Award Winners and Meet the Newest AWS Ambassadors

The AWS Ambassador Program is a vibrant worldwide community of AWS experts, known as AWS Ambassadors, from AWS Partner Network (APN) Services and Software Partners.

AWS Ambassadors are recognized as influential AWS professionals in supporting and driving their organization’s AWS proficiency and sharing their thought leadership with the broader community. AWS Ambassadors possess and maintain multiple AWS certifications and develop their organization’s capabilities to make our customers successful with AWS.

AWS Ambassador Awards 2024

At the sixth annual AWS Ambassador Global Summit in September, we kicked off a 3-day event in Seattle with 95 Ambassadors from 67 unique AWS Partners. All of our AWS Ambassadors were eager to get together once more to dive deep on AWS topics and interact with executives from across AWS and the AWS Partner Organization.

We were honoured to recognize this year’s Top AWS Ambassadors for their outstanding performance and exemplary business impact and thought leadership. Following are the 2024 AWS Ambassador Top Awards recipients.

We also recognized the AWS Ambassador Certification All-Stars who have shown technical depth, possessing all active AWS Certifications.

What Have Our AWS Ambassadors Been Up To?

AWS Ambassadors are prominent leaders who are passionate about sharing their Amazon Web Services (AWS) expertise. They author blogs and whitepapers, create and deliver public presentations, contribute to open-source projects, and drive their organization’s AWS proficiency.

Here are several examples of thought leadership shared by AWS Ambassadors in Q3-2024 across the world.

ANZ (Australia and New Zealand)

• Dinesh Sharma (Datacom) — Drawing AWS with Python
• Ekant Mate (Blazeclan Technologies) — Enable AWS Resource Explorer at the Organizational Level
• Freddy Ho (CyberCX) — Using AWS Secrets Manager to rotate a Amazon Cognito user password
• Geoff Loh (CyberCX) — FTP automated/scheduled file downloads using AWS Batch/EventBridge
• Greg Luxford (Cevo) — AWS Web Application Firewall and IPv6
• Gregory Cockburn (AC3) — Amazon Inspector
• Ian Mckay (Kablamo) — Poor mans MFA for AWS Client VPN
• James Bettaney (WOLK Technology) — Embracing a Modern Workplace on AWS
• Jem Richards (Redbear IT) — Air-gapped backups with AWS Backup – 3 things to know
• Lee Murphy (Datacom) — Amazon Q Apps – Generative AI to Make business more efficient
• Nivlesh Chandra (Cognizant) — Save money by creating Amazon DynamoDB tables locally using Docker!
• Sagar Donthineni (Deloitte) — Uploading Data to AWS S3 Over a VPN
• Simon Wang (AC3) — Fairness Evaluation and Model Explainability In AI
• Steven Tan (AC3) — Securing the AWS CloudFormation Supply Chain!
• Wayne Hayes (WOLK Technology) — Fortifying IT Infrastructure: Enabling Seamless Deployment for ISVs in Digital Healthcare
  

ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations)

• Akesh Patil (Blazeclan Technologies) — Centralizing AWS resource provisioning with Service Catalog and Terraform Reference Engine (TRE)
  
• Nguyen Tien Hai (Megazone Cloud) —How to automatically create S3 lifecycles using AWS CLI and AWS SDK
  
• Thanh Dang (CMC Telecom) — Reducing carbon with AWS: Net Zero Roadmap for Vietnamese Enterprises
  

CHINA

• Wen Che Chung (CKmates) — Create an enterprise-grade generative AI assistant that knows you best! Amazon Q User Guide
  
• Yanfeng Huo (Eccom) — Natural Language Ops for AWS with Open Interpreter
  
• Yipeng Zhao (Wangsu) — AWS Lambda alias to enable multiple version scheduling or grey scale releases
  
• Yuezu Wang (Marshotspot) — AWS Graviton EC2 Self-Built RabbitMQ Cluster Mirror Mode
  
• Zheng Guo (VAP-VSTECS) —SIOS 9.8.1 Arbitration Configuration with AWS S3
  

EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa)

• Ahmet Aydin (kloia) — Experience the Power of a Managed Service: Customize Your Oracle Database with AWS RDS Custom
  
• Alejandro Lazaro Chueca (NTT Data EMEAL) — Building real-time applications with AWS AppSync and Subscriptions
  
• Anton Isaiev (EPAM) — How to Avoid Overspending on AWS EKS: A No-Nonsense Guide
  
• Artur Schneider (T-Systems) — GenAI: Meet your new AI sales trainer
  
• Gareth Bowers (Silicon Overdrive) — Navigating the World of AWS Containerization: Best Practices and Considerations
  
• Guido Nebiolo (Reply) — Building a ChatGPT-like WebApp with AWS Amplify and Amazon Bedrock
  
• Hendrik Hagen (tecRacer) — Building a Cloud SIEM with AWS OpenSearch Security Analytics
  
• Irene Aguilar (NTT Data EMEAL) — IoT for Dummies: Building a Basic IoT Platform with AWS
  
• Jari Ikävalko (Skillwell) — Implementing Enterprise Integration Patterns with AWS Serverless and Managed Services
  
• Jaroslaw Grzabel (SoftServe) — Genius Sports: Reliable Migration and Governance for Data Excellence
  
• Javier Carrera (DoiT International) — Automating AWS Lambda Deployment with Container Images using CodePipeline and CodeBuild
  
• Jimmy Dahlqvist (Sigma Technology) — Migrating Bioinformatics Applications to SaaS using Amazon AppStream and Sigma Technology
  
• Maurice Borgmeier (tecRacer) — Enabling Apache Airflow to copy large S3 objects
  
• Oguzhan Selcuk Hiziroglu (Yonetim.Academy) — Accessing Applications on AWS ECS (A Step-by-Step Chatbot Web App Example)
  
• Oleksii Bebych (Automat-IT) — Automatically connect VPC to shared AWS Transit Gateway in Landing Zone.
  
• Patrick Zink (Public Cloud Group) — Avoiding Double Costs: EFS Automatic Backups and AWS Backup Plans
  
• Petri Kallberg (Nordcloud) — Anonymous S3 Access
  
• Roman Tsypuk (Capgemini) — Using AWS SQS as a Time Machine: Delayed Messaging
  
• Sven Leiß (MHP) — How AWS Can Save Your Bacon: A Lighthearted Guide to Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
  

INDIA

• Abhijeet Chinchole (Cloudlytics Technologies) — Generative AI for Cloud Security: Enhancing Protection through AI-Driv…
  
• Abhinivesh Jain (Wipro) — AWS Landing Zone Setup: Part 1
  
• Alok Saraswat (Infosys) — Alok Saraswat on LinkedIn: Migrating OpenShift Container Platform to A…
  
• Ankur Chawla (Rackspace) — Predictive FinOps: Harnessing Machine Learning to Forecast and Optimiz…
  
• Anoop Prasad (Umbrella Infocare) — Managing Sessions in Distributed Applications on AWS | by Anoop Prasad…
  
• Ashish Kasaudhan (PwC) — Effortless Disk Cleanup Automation For Ec2 | by Ashish Kasaudhan | ash…
  
• Bharthvajan G (PwC) — Amazon Event Bridge — Send & Receive Custom application events
  
• Chinmay Mandal (PwC) — AWS IAM Roles Anywhere using your own Private Certificate Authority |…
  
• Gargee Bhatnagar (Capgemini) — AutoConnectivity Check of EC2 to RDS Using Amazon EC2 Feature
  
• Phanikiran Patruni (PwC) — Amazon Data Firehose: Streaming Data , Transformation and Storage | by…
  
• Piyush Agrawal (i2k2 Networks) — Key Benefits of Migrating to AWS IoT Core for IoT Businesses
  
• Piyush Jalan (Intuitive Technology Partners) — Achieving Cross-Account DNS Resolution on AWS Using Route 53
  
• Rahul Sharma (SourceFuse) — How I Built My Own Terraform-Like Enterprise Platform
  
• Raji Krishnamoorthy (TCS) — Build an interactive chatbot with Amazon Bedrock Knowledge base
  
• Ramandeep Kalear (Tech Mahindra) — Transform Manufacturing Quality Control with Computer Vision | Tech Ma…
  
• Ravi Intodia (Infosys) — Amazon Bedrock : Customer Journey | by Ravi Intodia | Medium
  
• Ravindra Malpute (Cloudxchange) — Effective VMware to AWS Migration: A Strategic Implementation Guide
  
• Ravindra Malpute (Cloudxchange) — Modernize Your IT Infrastructure: The Benefits of Migrating from VMware to AWS
  
• Sanchit Jain (Quantiphi) — The Art and Science of Prompt Engineering: Unlocking the Potential of…
  
• Sapna Mandhare (Capgemini) — IAM Access Analyzer — Optimizing IAM Policies for ECS Microservices |…
  
• Satish Srinivasan (Infosys) — Satish Srinivasan on LinkedIn: AWS Bedrock Anthropic Claude based Guar…
  
• Umashankar Nedunchezhian (1CloudHub) — Revolutionizing Disaster Recovery: AWS Resilience Hub for EC2 Applicat…
  
• Venkatesh Muthusami (Infosys) — Amazon Bedrock Agents. Amazon Bedrock Agent: A Powerful Tool… | by Ven…
  
• Vilas Katte (Infosys) — Restrict Access to AWS Bill subpage to Avoid rebilling issue
  

JAPAN

• Akira Shibata (Fenrir) — I read “Resource Management in Aurora Serverless”
  
• Aya Shimada (NHN Techorus) — How to avoid false positives in AWS WAF managed rule groups
  
• Fumiaki Kato (Works Human Intelligence) — Participated in AWS Ambassador Global Summit 2024
  
• Hayato Kosugi (Saison Technology) — Thinking about how to securely operate the AWS account management API
  
• Hidenori Miyoshi (Hitachi Solutions) — Checking CloudFormation templates: Effective checking method using cfn-lint
  
• Hideto Haraguchi (Seeds) — Finally GA! AWS Graviton4 r8g details and the benchmark result
  
• Hiroaki Aga (Megazone Cloud) — Centralize NAT Gateways of multiple AWS accounts using “VPC Peering+Proxy”
  
• Hiroshi Hayakawa (Hitachi) — Control daily batches with SSM Change Calendar
  
• Hiroshi Nidegawa (TIS) — Consideration of a mechanism to activate IAMUser for the production environment running on AWS only when necessary
  
• Hiroyuki Anzai (Fujisoft) — Migration map from VMware (AWS edition)
  
• Ippei Nishiyama (GeekFeed) — Manage bounced emails with Amazon SES
  
• Kazuaki Morita (Fujisoft) — Specifying model-specific parameters with Bedrock’s Converse API
  
• Keisuke Matsuda (iret) — Story about migrating from Glue Workflow to Step Functions
  
• Kiminori Yokoi (TIS) — Enabling AWS Health Aware with Power Automate’s Teams Incoming Webhook connector
  
• Kohei Gamo (Nomura Research Institute) — Bringing out the true value of RAG: A practical approach to improving the accuracy of generated AI chatbot answers
  
• Kohei Otani (Forgevision) — How to automatically integrate Orca Security and Backlog
  
• Masanori Mano (NTT Data) — Don’t give up debugging with EKS even in Distroless containers
  
• Masayuki Goto (Hitachi Systems) — Operational verification using AWS FIS of “attached EBS status check” added to the EC2 screen [as of September 2024]
  
• Mayumi Yamazaki (IBM) — Impressions from participating in the 2024 AWS Ambassador Global Summit
  
• Ryota Yamamoto (Classmethod) — Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP] Checked the benefits of SnapRestore by file
• Shigeyoshi Takahashi (ITOCHU) — Let’s try generating AI on AWS! Generating AI with Amazon Bedrock
  
• Shiho Nagahama (BTC) — [AWS] Deploy Nuxt application to S3+CloudFront with CICD
  
• Shogo Usuki (Kyndryl) — How to configure efficient notifications for heuristic guardrails
  
• Shota Shiratori (NTT East) — Featured messages and reports from AWS Summit Japan keynote speeches viewed by AWS Ambassadors
  
• Shotaro Saito (Deloitte Tohmatsu) — How to tag resources managed by CloudFormation in bulk
  
• Shuichi Takahashi (iret) — Sharing an AWS Well-Architected workload
  
• Takahito Iwasa (Classmethod) — [Update] Extensions added to Amazon CodeCatalyst to support GitLab repositories (SaaS version)
  
• Takashi Kouzu (Skyarch Networks) — Try using Claude via Bedrock to perform category classification and statistical batching serverless
  
• Takumi Tomita (Hitachi) — Utilize Bayes theorem! Comparative verification of multiple LLMs with Party Rock and Dify
  
• Takuro Sasaki (NRI Netcom) — About S3 folder structure and prefixes
  
• Tomoko Sakamoto (Serverworks) — [Amazon Managed Grafana] How to monitor multiple member accounts at once using CloudWatch cross-account observability and SAML authentication (2)
  
• Tomotaka Kizawa (SCSK) — Digging deep into the AWS Lambda file system
  
• Toshihisa Noguchi (TIS) — Try running Nutanix Cloud Clusters on AWS. (Deployment version)
  
• Yasuyuki Sato (Deloitte Tohmatsu) — Eye-opening! Amazon EKS Workshop shows how the learning environment works
  
• Yohei Watanabe (NTT TechnoCross) — Reviewing the positioning of CodeCommit before migration
  
• Yuji Hirono (SCSK) — The IAM role for writing Amazon API Gateway logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs is an account-level setting
  
• Yuki Tsumita (Accenture) — Latency depending on AWS VPC connection method (VPC Peering vs TGW)
  
• Yusuke Shimizu (NRI Netcom) — CDK Mastery: Team Evolution through SECI Model
  
• Yutaka Kashiwabara (NTT Data) — Looking back at the AWS DeepRacer Japan Championship Cup
  

KOREA

• ChiSong Yu (LG CNS) — RDS PostgreSQL Blue/Green Deployment Testing
  
• Dongin Kwon (LG CNS) — How to enhance AWS account security to prevent hacking and overcharges
  
• Heeseok Jeong (LG CNS) — Comparison of AWS EKS Configmap and Access Management Control, and how to grant permissions
  
• Hyunjin Lee (Datadog) — Using Datadog Log Archives S3 and Amazon Athena
  
• Junseung Choi (SK Telecom) — How to optimize the unit cost of a network
  
• Minhyeok Cha (SmileShark) — Architectural analysis using AWS Bedrock
  
• SeonBo Shim (Bespin Global) — Integrate AWS Health Event and check major events through real-time channels
  
• Suhye Jung (LG CNS) — How to monitor changes to AWS Network resources
  

LATAM (Latin America)

• Alejandro Velez (Sophos Solutions) — Continuous Delivery applied to Authorization with IAM Identity Center and AWS IAM Access Analyzer – Part 2
  
• Carlos Diego Cavalcanti (EPI-USE) — Arquiteturas baseadas em Eventos (Event-Driven Architecture — EDA) e como implementá-las na AWS
  
• Carlos Enrique Moreno Alvarez (Escala 24×7) — An experience with Database Modernization: From Oracle for Aurora PostgreSQL – A Cloud Perspective
  
• Leticia Massae Uchida (GFT) — Preparing for the AWS Practitioner AI Certification Exam (Beta)
  
• Maria Claudia Marquez (Caleidos) — Conexión remota a una Raspberry Pi 5 utilizando AWS IoT Device Client
  
• Nicolas Archila (Pragma) — What Is Technical Debt and How to Manage It?
  

NAMER (North America)

• Anand Gupta (Capgemini) — Exploring caching strategies and patterns with AWS ElastiCache Serverless
  
• Collin Smith (Accolite Digital) — Creating a React Typescript Tailwind Front End application in AWS with CDK on S3 and CloudFront
  
• Connor McCrory (PwC) — Exploring Amazon Bedrock and Optimizing AI Output with Chat Playground
  
• Don Spidell (Summit Technology Group) — Backup to S3 over Direct Connect using a Private VIF
  
• Girish Mukim (IBM) — Optimizing Oracle Database Migration to Amazon RDS with EFS Integration
  
• Jayant Raj (PwC) — Build Agents on Amazon Bedrock
  
• Jeremy Ritchie (Caylent) — Your First Kubernetes Cluster on AWS
  
• Jorge Rodriguez (CloudHesive) — AWS Ambassador Regional MeetUp: My Experience
  
• Mahmood Rahimi (Blue Sentry Cloud) — Testing Website with AWS Device Farm
  
• Mark Olson (Caylent) — OpenAI vs Bedrock: Optimizing Generative AI on AWS
  
• Matt Barlow (StratusGrid) — Running Backstage In Production On AWS
  
• Noor Alsabahi (Blue Sentry Cloud) — Sustainable Cloud Computing with AWS
  
• Rola Dali (RapidScale) — Obtaining My Golden Jacket: “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
  
• Steven Smiley (Scalesec) — Serverless & FIPS-140 Compliant Containers with AWS Fargate in GovCloud
  
• Thomas Ricardo (Oxford Global Resources) — Using AWS CloudWatch Internet Monitor
  
• Timothy Patterson (Zeb) — Encrypt and Copy Existing AWS Backup Recovery Points to a New Account for Enhanced Security
  
• Todd Bernson (Blue Sentry Cloud) — Achieving Real-Time Data Processing with AWS Kinesis
  
• Vivek Velso (Cognizant) — 4 Ways to Get Hands-On with SageMaker for Free
  

UKIR (United Kingdom and Ireland)

• Debadatta Panda (TCS) — Accelerate Java Version Upgrade with Amazon Q Developer
  
• Jon Topper (The Scale Factory) — The SaaS Infrastructure Dilemma
  
• Mark Ross (Eviden) — Unlocking the Power of AWS for Accelerated AI/ML Enablement: Eviden’s DeepRacer Journey
  
• Matt Lewis (IBM) — Accelerating Code Conversion with Amazon SageMaker and IBM Granite Code models
  
• Radhakrishna Banavalikar (TCS) — Amazon SageMaker on a personal improvement plan
  
• Satish Natarajan (Deloitte) — Generative AI made easy
  

Welcome to our latest AWS Ambassadors

We are excited to introduce our newest AWS Ambassadors from Q3 2024!

INDIA
Bakrudeen Kalibullah (ShellKode)
Bhuvanesh R (ShellKode)
Gaurav Kankaria (Oneture)
Ramandeep Kalear (Tech Mahindra)
Varun Kumar (Amdocs)
Vineet Singh (Tevico)

Learn More About AWS Ambassadors

To learn more about the program and see the current AWS Ambassadors, visit our AWS Ambassador Program page

If you’re 1) an employee of an AWS Services Partner at the Advanced or Premier tier, or 2) an AWS Software Partner, hold multiple active AWS Certifications, are recognized as a thought leader in your organization, and share your expertise with peers and the AWS community, then you may be a great fit for the program. Please contact your Partner Solutions Architect for details.

If you’re an AWS customer and want to contact an AWS Ambassador, we have listed each AWS Ambassador’s contact information
so you can connect with them directly through their employer. Just click the ‘Contact Partner’ button to get started!