AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog
Meet Our New AWS Ambassadors from Q4 2024 and Explore Latest Activities
By Matthijs ten Seldam, Global Program Manager – AWS Ambassador Program
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.
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 Q4-2024 across the world.
ANZ (Australia and New Zealand)
- Alan Blockley (Thoughtworks) — AWS Marketplace – From AMIs to SaaS, Containers, and Beyond
- Alan Blockley (Thoughtworks) — AWS Marketplace for SaaS Listings – Driving Growth with Flexible Billing and Strategic Support
- Bojan Zivic (CMD Solutions) — UserData to ECS magic
- Denys Tyshetskyy (CyberCX) — Snowflake cost optimisation through data replication in AWS
- Dinesh Sharma (Datacom) — From Bicycle to Spaceship: Navigating the Cloud Transformation Journey
- Ekant Mate (Blazeclan Technologies) — Centralized AWS SSM Patch Compliance Reporting Using Terraform and Quicksight
- Ekant Mate (Blazeclan Technologies) — How to decommission/delete/close the AWS account automatically?
- Ekant Mate (Blazeclan Technologies) — How to Transfer Data Between Cross-Account S3 Buckets Using AWS DataSync with Terraform?
- Ekant Mate (Blazeclan Technologies) — How to Disable Security Hub if it is Centrally Enabled?
- Ekant Mate (Blazeclan Technologies) — What to Do If You Accidentally Delete KMS Key Material: A Recovery Guide
- Freddy Ho (CyberCX) — How to securely use secrets in AWS Lambda functions with AWS Lambda Powertools
- Geoff Loh (CyberCX) — URL redirection and forwarding using AWS Lambda@Edge and Secrets Manager
- Greg Luxford (Cevo) — Control Tower and AWS Identity Center – Renaming Access Portal
- Greg Luxford (Cevo) — Control Tower: Breaking, fixing and onboarding in an existing AWS Organization – Part 1
- Greg Luxford (Cevo) — Control Tower: Breaking, fixing and onboarding in an existing AWS Organization – Part 2
- Ian Mckay (Kablamo) — Resource Control Policies: Closing the data perimeter gap
- Jason Wood (Telstra) — Deploying AWS Infrastructure with GitOps and CloudFormation
- Jem Richards (Redbear IT) — AWS Security Incident Response – why you should care!
- Nick Little (CyberCX) — Centralizing AWS Root Account Access
- Nick Little (CyberCX) — VPC As A CloudFront Origin
- Stefan Evans (CyberCX) — Unicorns and AWS KMS
ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations)
- Ardi Hanitya (Westcon-Comstor) — AWS Textract PDF Table only using Python
- Ardi Hanitya (Westcon-Comstor) — Summarize file in AWS Bedrock without RAG
- Richard Kang (DoiT International) — Configure IAM Identity Center as SAML for external AWS account
- Thanh Dang (CMC Telecom) — Landing Zone: A strategic platform for the future of business on the cloud
EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa)
- Alejandro Lazaro Chueca (NTT Data EMEAL) — Los Secretos de AWS que los expertos no siempre comparten
- Alejandro Lazaro Chueca (NTT Data EMEAL) — Automating AWS Resource Deployment with GitHub Actions and Terraform
- Alejandro Lazaro Chueca (NTT Data EMEAL) — Immediate Impact: Quick Wins for Each Pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework (3/4)
- Alejandro Lazaro Chueca (NTT Data EMEAL) — The Six Pillars of AWS Well-Architected Framework: Best Practices for. Cloud Success (2/4)
- Alejandro Lazaro Chueca (NTT Data EMEAL) — Understanding the AWS Well-Architected Framework: Why It’s Essential for Every Cloud Professional (1/4)
- David Krohn (globaldatanet) — Enhancing Your AWS CDK Projects with Testing
- Guido Nebiolo (Reply) — Building an AI Text Summarizer with Amazon Bedrock and AWS App Studio.
- Guido Nebiolo (Reply) — Building Applications in Minutes with AWS App Studio
- Irene Aguilar (NTT Data EMEAL) — Functionalidades de AWS Backup for Organisations y sus diferencias con AWS Backup
- Jaroslaw Grzabel (SoftServe) — Facing VMware’s Price Hikes? Migrating to AWS Might Be Your Answer
- Javier Carrera (DoiT International) — Solving the ECS Task Definition Update Challenge in CodePipeline Deployments
- Jimmy Dahlqvist (Sigma Technology) — Serverless AI powered content moderation service
- Jimmy Dahlqvist (Sigma Technology) — Serverless self-service IoT certificate management – Part 1
- Jimmy Dahlqvist (Sigma Technology) — Serverless self-service IoT certificate management – Part 2
- Julian Michel (Capgemini) — Embedding Q Business into existing applications – DEV Community
- Marco Kuendig (Copebit) — Kubernetes Autoscaling with Copebit: Transforming Cloud-Native Solutions
- Matteo Depascale (Reply) — CloudNature | 10 Essential AWS Security Steps for Your AWS Account
- Maurice Borgmeier (tecRacer) — How I spent a few hours using advanced technology to save $2
- Maurice Borgmeier (tecRacer) — Integrating HubSpot with AWS Lambda
- Oguzhan Selcuk Hiziroglu (Yonetim.Academy) — Facial Recognition System Setup Using Amazon Rekognition
- Patrick Zink (Public Cloud Group) — AWS Managed Grafana for one or multiple AWS Organizations
- Petri Kallberg (Nordcloud) — VPC Dealers
- Petri Kallberg (Nordcloud) — Access Red Hat Knowledge Base from AWS console
- Roman Tsypuk (Capgemini) — AWS CSM Mode: Advanced monitoring of AWS client
- Roman Tsypuk (Capgemini) — CDC in AWS: Content Data Capture from AWS RDS MySQL into AWS MSK Kafka…
- Samuel Durand (Kreuzwerker) — Protecting Lambda URLs with Cognito, IAM, Lambda@Edge and CDK
- Sven Seiler (Reply) — Amazon Nova Reel Playground
- Sven Seiler (Reply) — AWS European Sovereign Cloud — (Stand Q4/2024)
- Sven Seiler (Reply) — GxP Compliance for regulated industries
- Sven Seiler (Reply) — Google Veo 2 vs. Amazon Bedrock with Amazon Nova Reel
INDIA
- Abhinivesh Jain (Wipro) — AWS Landing Zone Setup- Part 2
- Ankur Chawla (Rackspace) — Streamlining Resource Management with AWS Tagging Policies
- Ankur Chawla (Rackspace) — The Global State of DevSecOps in 2024: Trends, Challenges, and the Rol…
- Bakrudeen Kalibullah (ShellKode) — How Boggl AI Transforms Your Product Lifecycle Management with Amazon…
- Chinmay Mandal (PwC) — API Gateway and Security Consideration
- Chinmay Mandal (PwC) — Cloudfront distribution with multiple S3 bucket
- Gargee Bhatnagar (Capgemini) — Deep Dive on Entity Recognition Job Creation using Amazon Comprehend -…
- Gargee Bhatnagar (Capgemini) — Streaming of Desktop Applications Securely on Web Browser Using Amazon…
- Gaurav Kankaria (Oneture) — Leveraging Generative AI with AWS
- Phanikiran Patruni (PwC) — Leveraging AWS Services for Comprehensive Analysis and Visualization o…
- Piyush Jalan (Intuitive Technology Partners) — Cloud-Native Transformation: From EC2 to Fully Managed AWS Services
- Prarthit Mehta (CloudThat) — Migrating from AWS CodeCommit to Self-Hosted GitLab: My Journey with A…
- Rahul Sharma (SourceFuse) — 7 AWS VPC Best Practices Every Cloud Engineer Should Know
- RamaKrishna Ponnaluri (PwC) — Understanding Industrial Protocols in the Perspective of IoT and Cloud…
- Ravi Intodia (Infosys) — AWS Application Load Balancer : Do more with HTTP header modification…
- Sanchit Jain (Quantiphi) — Security Best Practices for MongoDB on AWS
- Sapna Mandhare (Capgemini) — Streamlining File Processing with AWS Batch
- Sourabh Chordiya (Wipro) — Accelerating and De-Risking SAP S/4HANA Transformations: The AWS, Wipr…
JAPAN
- Akira Shibata (Fenrir) — Event-driven architecture that web engineers should know
- Akito Kidani (Works Human Intelligence) — Troubleshooting with SQL in Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights
- Hayato Kosugi (Saison Technology) — How to set up Amazon Q Developer Pro for your organization
- Hidenori Miyoshi (Hitachi Solutions) — Minimum configuration for running Rails 7.2 apps on ECS
- Hideto Haraguchi (Seeds) — Dealing with frequent TOOMANYREQUESTS errors in Trivy running on CodeBuild
- Hiroaki Aga (Megazone Cloud) — Optimizing NAT Gateway Usage: Efficient Workflow Design with AWS Step Functions
- Hiroshi Nidegawa (TIS) — Verification of new service announced at AWS re:Invent 2024 to facilitate cross-VPC connectivity
- Ippei Nishiyama (GeekFeed) — Seven things we do to optimize AWS costs within our organization
- Kazuaki Morita (Fujisoft) — Using Streamlit in SageMaker Studio’s JupyterLab environment (with bonus functionality to talk to Gemma 2 JPN)
- Kazuya Asawa (Accenture) — A DevSecOps pipeline for Docker realized with AWS and OSS tools
- Keisuke Matsuda (Iret) — A story about implementing a pipeline that builds one container image from two repositories (AWS Code series)
- Kohei Otani (Forgevision) — IAM now supports AWS PrivateLink in all commercial regions
- Masanori Mano (NTT Data) — Finally, automated task rebalancing in ECS
- Mayumi Yamazaki (IBM) — The evolving current state and expectations of Amazon Q Developer
- Ryota Yamamoto (Classmethod) — AWS DataSync SMB locations do not allow SMB file share names to contain multi-byte characters
- Ryuta Kubota (NEC) — Start shifting security left on AWS today Part 4: Efficiently manage vulnerabilities with AWS CodeBuild and AWS Security Hub
- Shigeki Nara (Kyndryl) — Check the difference in behavior between ResourceTag and RequestTag
- Shota Shiratori (NTT East) — Top 10 AWS Networking Updates for 2024
- Shotaro Saito (Deloitte Tohmatsu) — Practical application of automated tagging using AWS Config and Security Hub: Comparing multiple methods
- Takafumi Miki (Hitachi) — Hey, Amazon Linux 2023 isn’t outputting logs…
- Takashi Kouzu (Skyarch Networks) — Build generative AI apps faster with new features in Bedrock Flows and the Amazon Q Developer Agent
- Tomoko Sakamoto (Serverworks) — Try the new AWS Systems Manager experience, now integrated with Amazon Q Developer!
- Tomotaka Kizawa (SCSK) — Using Amazon FSx for OpenZFS for WordPress content sharing
- Toshihisa Noguchi (TIS) — Use Nutanix Move to migrate virtual machines to NC2onAWS.
- Yasuyuki Sato (Deloitte Tohmatsu) — Reducing the amount of code in AWS CDK: Applying OAC to Amazon CloudFront L2 constructs
- Yoshihiro Hotta (NEC) — What is GSS? About Government Cloud and GSS Network
- Yoshimi Maehara (Nomura Research Institute) —[Verification] How close is Amazon Q Developer’s document and unit test auto-generation function to manual creation quality?
- Yuji Hirono (SCSK) — [re:Invent 2024 Announcement] Incorporating Storage Browser for Amazon S3 into a React app
KOREA
- Jihun Lim (GS Neotek) — Importing external models into Bedrock
- Junseung Choi (SK Telecom) — How to optimize storage usage
- Seongwoo Choi (GS Neotek) — Building a knowledge graph with LLM
- Seongwoo Choi (GS Neotek) — Implementing RAG using knowledge graphs
LATAM (Latin America)
- Alejandro Velez (Sophos Solutions) — DevSecOps with AWS- IaC at scale – Building your own platform – Part 3 – Pipeline as a Service
- Alexandre Gusson (GFT) — Acessibilidade cresce com a IA e companhias apostam na construção de modelos personalizados
- Carlos Alberto Marangon (Nextios) — Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) na AWS: IA Generativa com Conhecimento Contextual
- Carlos Diego Cavalcanti (EPI-USE) — Observabilidade com sidecars em microsserviços: conceitos e aplicação prática
- Claudio Acquaviva (Kong) — RAG Application with Kong AI Gateway, AWS Bedrock, Redis and LangChain
NAMER (North America)
- Anand Gupta (Capgemini) — Exploring Java Spring Core 6 and AWS Lambda for Scalable Enterprise Serverless Solutions
- Collin Smith (Accolite Digital) — Passing the AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer Associate Certification in 2025
- Collin Smith (Accolite Digital) — Passing the AWS Certified Security-Specialty Certification (SCS-CO2) in 2025
- Girish Mukim (IBM) — AWS Cost Estimate Tracker: Enhanced Insights with Generative AI
- Jennifer Bergstrom (Parsons) — There’s a new cert in town!
- Jorge Rodriguez (CloudHesive) — The Gold Jacket Blog!
- Justin Cook (Eviden) — Amazon Nova to the rescue
- Justin Cook (Eviden) — Pathway to achieving all AWS Certifications
- Mahmood Rahimi (BSC analytics) — Using AWS Bedrock to Query a MySQL Database | Part 2 Prompt and Interface Improvement
- Mark Olson (Caylent) — Importance of Vector data stores for Gen AI Applications
- Raghavan Madabusi (Info Services) — Iceberg Made Simple with Amazon S3 Tables
- Ross Chernick (PwC) — Chaos engineering: Finding resilience gaps in workloads
- Ross Chernick (PwC) — Continuous resilience: Building confidence in your ability to recover from disruptions
- Timothy Patterson (Zeb) — How Enterprise Customers Can Streamline Procurement with AWS Marketplace
- Timothy Patterson (Zeb) — How Startups & SMBs Can Leverage AWS Marketplace to Accelerate Growth
- Todd Bernson (BSC analytics) — Data Pipeline Architecture for Churn Prediction: Automating Data Flow with AWS Services
- Todd Bernson (BSC analytics) — Lambda Functions for Processing Kafka Logs in AWS
- Todd Bernson (BSC analytics) — Model Evaluation and Tuning in SageMaker Canvas
- Todd Bernson (BSC analytics) — Preprocessing and Preparing Data for SageMaker
- Vivek Velso (Cognizant) — Background Removal Made Easy and Affordable with Amazon Bedrock Titan Models
- Vivek Velso (Cognizant) — Changing Image Background Using Amazon Bedrock Nova Canvas Model and Outpainting
- Vivek Velso (Cognizant) — Using Amazon Nova Canvas SOTA (State-of-the-Art) Frontier FM Model to remove image background
UKI (United Kingdom and Ireland)
- Alex Kearns (Ubertas Consulting) — Apportioning Amazon Bedrock invocation costs
- Alex Kearns (Ubertas Consulting) — Getting started with Amazon Bedrock inference profiles
- Debadatta Panda (TCS) — Amazon Bedrock knowledgebases for structured data
- Deniz Parmaksız (Insider) — Real-Time Feature Extraction with Spark Structured Streaming
- Dirk Michel (MYCOM OSI) — On Amazon Bedrock and RAG with Structured Data
- Jason Oliver (Nasstar) — AWS GenAI: powerful innovation meets critical safety concerns – a technical leader’s perspective
- Jason Oliver (Nasstar) — Electrifying the Future: AWS and the Energy Sector
- Mark Ross (Eviden) — AWS DeepRacer League 2024 Championship Finals The Last (Competitive) Dance!
- Mark Ross (Eviden) — Experience of the AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer — Associate training and beta exam
Welcome to our latest AWS Ambassadors
We are excited to introduce our newest AWS Ambassadors from Q4 2024!
CHINA
JinFeng Lin (Xiamen Hanwei)
EMEA
Hendrik Hagen (Ingram Micro)
Julian Michel (Capgemini)
Miguel Angel Muñoz Sanchez (Logicalis)
Zipporah Wachira (Silicon Overdrive)
INDIA
Adit Modi (Lauren)
Nagababu Medicharla (Searce)
KOREA
Cheolgu Lee (LGCNS)
NAMER
Jeff Carson (Clearscale)
Zakaria Dahani (Eviden)
UKI
Ivan Casco (StratusGrid)
Prasenjit Roychoudhury (TCS)
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!