Congrats to Our 2025 AWS Ambassador Award Winners and Meet Our New 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 2025

At the annual AWS Ambassador Global Summit in June, we kicked off a 3-day event in Seattle with 91 Ambassadors from 65 partners across 20 countries. 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 2025 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 Q2-2025 across the world.

ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations)

• Akesh Patil (Blazeclan Technologies) — AMI Factory for Managing Zero Day Vulnerabilities with Amazon EC2 Image Builder
• Gokul Bala (Crayon) — Crayon’s AWS-Aligned Data Platform Engineering Solutions
• Gokul Bala (Crayon) — Guide to AWS Cost Optimization

ANZ (Australia and New Zealand)

• Alan Blockley (Thoughtworks) — DynamoDB Scan vs Query
• Alan Blockley (Thoughtworks) — It Works on My Machine
• Ariharan Ramanathan (Spark Business Group) — AWS ECS with GPU Sharing
• Denys Tyshetskyy (CyberCX) — Gen AI Platform
• James Wynne (CMD Solutions) — Accelerating Java Modernisation with Amazon Q’s Transform Function for AWS Migration
• James Wynne (CMD Solutions) — Steering Your Generative AI: A Practical Guide to Amazon Bedrock Guardrails
• Jem Richards (Redbear IT) — AWS Incident Response Threat Detection Resolution
• Jem Richards (Redbear IT) — AWS Security Risks Top 10
• Jem Richards (Redbear IT) — AWS Threat Detection Business Security
• Nivlesh Chandra (Cognizant) — Create a Photo Location Map Using Amazon Cognito, Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda and Amazon S3 – Part 3
• Scott Baldwin (Telstra) — Cross Region Pipelines
• Scott Baldwin (Telstra) — Dev Container Setup for .NET AWS
• Stefan Evans (CyberCX) — Passwordless Login My Shopping List
• Stefan Evans (CyberCX) — Using Amazon Q Developer to Refactor Web Applications

CHINA

• JinFeng Lin (Xiamen Hanwei) —Deep Dive into the Amazon Q CLI: An Intelligent Assistant for AWS Cloud Architects
• Song Tan (TCS) —Security Testing of AWS Lambda Function URLs
• Wen Che Chung (CKmates) — Generative AI Strengthens Cybersecurity Defenses: Managing Security Logs with Natural Language
• Yebao Xu (Vstecs) — AWS Wavelength: From Theory to Hands-on Exploration

EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa)

• Ahmet Aydin (kloia) — KubeVirt on Amazon EKS: Unifying Containers and VMs in Kubernetes
• Alejandro Lazaro Chueca (NTT Data EMEAL) — Adding Real User Monitoring to My Blog with CloudWatch RUM
• Artur Schneider (Skaylink) — Architecting Your GenAI Data Pipeline with AWS Native Services
• Artur Schneider (Skaylink) — How I Built My AWS AI Assistant: Integrating Amazon Bedrock Agents with Slack
• Artur Schneider (Skaylink) — MCP Explained: How the Model Context Protocol Transforms AI in the Cloud
• Artur Schneider (Skaylink) — Datenklassifizierung beim Start
• Hendrik Hagen (Ingram Micro) — AppStream Database Manager
• Hendrik Hagen (Ingram Micro) — IAM Roles Anywhere
• Håkon Eriksen Drange (Sopra Steria) — How to Measure Well Architected Maturity
• Javier Carrera (DoiT International) — End-to-End Multi-Account VPC Flow Logs Centralization Analysis with AWS Config S3 Glue Athena
• Maarten Bruntink (Crayon) — Crayon’s AWS-Aligned Data Platform Engineering Solutions
• Maarten Bruntink (Crayon) — Guide to AWS Cost Optimization
• Marco Kuendig (Copebit) — Platform Engineering on AWS
• Miguel Angel Muñoz Sanchez (Logicalis) — El camino hacia Amazon Aurora DSQL
• Oleksii Bebych (Automat-IT) — Benchmarking Amazon EC2 Instances: The Newer Type the Better
• Oleksii Bebych (Automat-IT) — Centralizing Health Event Reporting for AWS Organizations at Scale
• Oleksii Bebych (Automat-IT) — Hack the OWASP Juice Shop Application and Protect it with AWS WAF – Part 1
• Oleksii Bebych (Automat-IT) — Hack the OWASP Juice Shop Application and Protect it with AWS WAF – Part 2
• Petri Kallberg (Firemind) — Analyze This

INDIA

• Anoop Prasad (Noventiq) — Why Modern EUC is More Than Just VDI: Breaking Down Myths and Misconceptions
• Anoop Prasad (Noventiq) — Install and Configure OpenVPN on Amazon Linux 2023 Graviton Instance
• Ashish Kasaudhan (PwC) — Accelerating Data Insights with Amazon Q in QuickSight: Self-Service Analytics for Everyone
• Ashish Kasaudhan (PwC) — Revolutionizing Infrastructure Management: Amazon Q CLI for Modern Platform Engineering
• Bharthvajan G (PwC) — Amazon Bedrock: Choosing the Right Architecture – RAG vs Agent vs Agentic RAG
• Bharthvajan G (PwC) — Building a Real-Time AI Assistant with Amazon Bedrock Agents – Part 01
• Bhuvaneswari Subramani (Intuitive Cloud) — Agentic RAG: A Self-Corrective Method for Implementing Retrieval Augmented Generation
• Chinmay Mandal (PwC) — Amazon Q CLI to Analyze VPC Flow Logs and CloudTrail
• Daksh Jat (PwC) — Architecting an Enterprise Scale AWS Landing Zone: Governance, Guardrails and Multi-Account
• Nagababu Medicharla (Searce) — From Manual to Automated: The EKS Auto Mode Transformation
• Phanikiran Patruni (PwC) — Amazon Q Business Integration with Enterprise MuleSoft for Enhanced Log Analysis
• Piyush Jalan (Intuitive Technology Partners) — Highly Available Cost Optimized Auto Scaling with Spot and On-Demand Instances
• Piyush Jalan (Intuitive Technology Partners) — Crafting a Simple Pokemon Game with Amazon Q CLI: A Hands-on Journey
• Prarthit Mehta (CloudThat) — Cloud Resource Tagging Matters More Than You Think
• Rahul Sharma (SourceFuse) — AWS CDK Tutorial
• Raji Krishnamoorthy (TCS) — AI Makeover of Index Cards in Amazon Bedrock
• Ramandeep Kalear (Tech Mahindra) — Hybrid Cloud Scenarios and AWS Solutions
• Ramandeep Kalear (Tech Mahindra) — Migration Strategies: Cloud Foundry to Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
• Ramandeep Kalear (Tech Mahindra) — Strategies for Ransomware Defense and Cyber Resilience in AWS Cloud
• Ramandeep Kalear (Tech Mahindra) — VMware AWS Migration Using Amazon Q Business

JAPAN

• Akito Kidani (Works Human Intelligence) — 2025 AWS Ambassador Global Summitに参加した
• Fumiaki Kato (Works Human Intelligence) — Step FunctionsがJsonata対応で得られるメリット
• Hayato Kosugi (Saison Technology) — Amazon Q Developer IDE 拡張の新しい Agentic Coding 機能を体験する
• Hidenori Miyoshi (Hitachi Solutions) — Bedrockのアプリ開発におけるChat Memoryの活用
• Hiroshi Hayakawa (Hitachi) — Q Developerで「AWSツヨツヨ」を作ってみた
• Hiroshi Nidegawa (TIS) — AWSの生成AI活用ガイド！基本から事例・導入のコツまで徹底解説
• Katsuhiro Fujimaki (Hitachi Systems) — WSL 2 に Amazon Linux 2023 を導入しよう！
• Kazuaki Morita (Fujisoft) — チャットするだけで理解できる IoT プラットフォームの作り方
• Kohei Gamo (Nomura Research Institute) — 社内AWS Jamで実現するクラウド人材育成！ NRIの取り組み
• Kohei Otani (Forgevision) — Control Tower のデプロイが失敗する？原因は“クレカ未承認”だった話
• Kota Sasaki (NEC) — サーバレスのアーキを振り返りつつ、私が思う最新アーキをAmazon Aurora DSQLを使って作成してみる
• Masanori Mano (NTT Data) — クラウドリフトにおけるデータベース移行の課題と最新の動向
• Masanori Yamaguchi (ForgeVision) — AWS の Temporary Elevated Access Management (TEAM) とは ？
• Masaru Ogura (Serverworks) — EC2 Image Builderで運用を楽にしてみよう！
• Masayuki Goto (Hitachi Systems) — Transit Gateway の基礎的説明用環境テンプレートと通信不可問題の提供
• Mayumi Yamazaki (IBM) — Generative AI Use Cases ( GenU ) で生成AIアプリケーションの独自ユースケースを作ってみよう！
• Ryota Yamamoto (Classmethod) — SMBファイルサーバー上のアクセス権限がないフォルダを参照しようとしたときに There’s a problem accessing と長期間エラーメッセージが表示される場合はWinRMのポートへのアクセスを疑おう
• Ryuta Kubota (NEC) — Auth0をOIDC IdPにしたAWS Verified AccessをTerraformで自動構築する
• Shigeki Nara (Kyndryl) — Amplify Gen2をIP制限しながら利用したい
• Shiho Nagahama (Capgemini) — 【AWS】タグの付与と棚卸
• Sho Kimishima (GeekFeed) — AWS Card Clashがマルチ対戦可能になっていたり進化していた
• Shogo Usuki (Kyndryl) — インフラ管理へのGitOpsとCI/CDパイプラインのススメ
• Shota Shiratori (NTT East) — Amazon Q Developer for CLIを使って、構築作業を楽にしよう（MCP対応版）
• Shotaro Saito (Deloitte Tohmatsu) — Amazon Q Developer for CLIで簡単インフラ調査 〜クラウドリソースの作成者を特定する〜
• Taihei Matsuo (Forgevision) — Amazon Q Developer CLI で漁師が戦うゲームを作ってみた(Windows 版)
• Takashi Kouzu (Skyarch Networks) —Amazon Q Developer CLI でMCPサーバ起動に失敗したのでトラブルシュートしてもらった
• Takumi Tomita (Hitachi) — Vibe CodingでDify環境構築
• Tomoko Sakamoto (Serverworks) — 【AWS Systems Manager の新しいエクスペリエンス】(1) AWS Organizations を利用した組織全体への有効化
• Yasuaki Okumura (NTT Data) — Amazon MacieのAWS Organizations連携機能
• Yasuyuki Sato (Deloitte Tohmatsu) — Well-Architected IaC Analyzerを知っていますか？ 進化したWell-Architected IaC Analyzerの新機能とプロンプトの仕組みを解説します！
• Yohei Watanabe (NTT TechnoCross) — Claude Code + Amazon Bedrockはアプリケーション推論プロファイルでも動く
• Yuji Hirono (SCSK) — Amazon Bedrock 基盤モデルに並列に問い合わせるジョブをつくる

KOREA

• ChiSong Yu (LG CNS) — Amazon Q Developer 도입 및 활용기
• ChiSong Yu (LG CNS) — Amazon Q Developer, 이제는 ‘협업’의 시대: AI와 효율적으로 일하는 방법
• Jihun Lim (GS Neotek) — Model Distillation for Amazon Nova Vision: Fine-tuning Text-Image to Text
• Minhyeok Cha (SmileShark) — Celebrating the General Availability of Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio with a Sneak Peek
• SeonBo Shim (Bespin Global) — Security Incident Response Strategy Leveraging AWS WAF

LATAM (Latin America)

• Alan Xavier (Darede) — Como o Datadog acelera o mapeamento de dependências e conexões na migração para AWS
• Alejandro Velez (GFT) — GitOps and IaC at Scale: AWS, ArgoCD, Terragrunt and OpenTofu – Part 2: Creating Spoke
• Carlos Alberto Marangon (Nextios) — Resultados do teste Model Distillation Amazon Bedrock
• Carlos Alberto Marangon (Nextios) — Testando o Amazon Bedrock Custom Model Import
• Carlos Alberto Marangon (Nextios) — Testando o Model Distillation Amazon Bedrock Preview
• Carlos Diego Cavalcanti (EPI-USE) — Atualização de versão do Amazon RDS com PostgreSQL: Guia Técnico Completo com Terraform e Python
• Carlos Diego Cavalcanti (EPI-USE) — AWS Extended Support: O que é, como funciona e como se preparar
• Nicolas Archila (Pragma) — ¿Por qué es importante la seguridad en arquitecturas que tienen componentes de IA y cómo implementarla?

NAMER (North America)

• Ajith Joseph (Deloitte) — Second Brain for Terminal: Amazon Q for Ops
• Ajith Joseph (Deloitte) — Mastering AWS Governance Part 2: Fine-tune AWS Service Control Policies
• Ajith Joseph (Deloitte) — Mastering AWS Governance Part 3: Fine-tune AWS IAM Identity Center Permission Sets
• Anthony Wat (Softchoice) — Building a Data Ingestion Solution for Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases
• Anthony Wat (Softchoice) — Enabling Logging for Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases Using Terraform
• Anthony Wat (Softchoice) — Using Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Base Application Logs for Notifications
• Brian Tarbox (Caylent) — Designing for Resiliency on AWS
• Clement Pakkam Isaac (Deloitte) — AWS IoT Core in Healthcare: Real-time Patient Monitoring
• Collin Smith (Bounteous) — AWS Secrets Manager: A Walkthrough
• Collin Smith (Bounteous) — Creating a Simple Vite React Front-end Application
• Collin Smith (Bounteous) — Deploying a MySQL RDS with Secrets Manager in Terraform
• Collin Smith (Bounteous) — Deploying Python Lambdas and API Gateway with Terraform
• Collin Smith (Bounteous) — Securing Data with a Bastion Host with Terraform in AWS
• Collin Smith (Bounteous) — Setting Up an AWS VPC with Terraform
• Collin Smith (Bounteous) — The Least Privilege Access Journey with AWS IAM Access Analyzer
• Collin Smith (Bounteous) — A Full Stack React Tailwind V4 Application
• Collin Smith (Bounteous) — Deploying AWS Infrastructure with Terraform
• Don Spidell (Summit Technology Group) — Building an HR Assistant with Amazon Bedrock
• Jeff Carson (Clearscale) — Automating the Automators: Dynamic AWS Lambda Creation
• Jeremy Ritchie (Caylent) — Container Security Posts
• Jeremy Ritchie (Caylent) — Additional Security Posts
• Justin Cook (Atos) — Future of DeepSeek at AWS
• Justin Cook (Atos) — AI Advancement with NoSQL at AWS
• Justin Cook (Atos) — The Future of AWS Monitoring
• Justin Guse (PwC) — Designing & Deploying Secure Environments Using Amazon WorkSpaces
• Leonid Gimelshtein (Allcloud) — AWS Content
• Noor Alsabahi (New Math Data) — Episode 2: Architecting AI Ethics Evaluator
• Noor Alsabahi (New Math Data) — Episode 3: AI Ethics Evaluator Provisioning
• Raghavan Madabusi (Info Services) — Designing a Social Network and Newsfeed System on AWS
• Raghavan Madabusi (Info Services) — Designing Scalable URL Shortener Service on AWS
• Satrajit Basu (TCG Digital Solutions) — Private API AWS Gateway
• Scott Weber (PwC) — Designing & Deploying Secure Environments Using Amazon WorkSpaces
• Thomas Ricardo (Oxford Global Resources) — Enhancing OT Network Visibility with AWS Network Synthetic Monitor
• Todd Bernson (BSC analytics) — Multiple articles on voice cloning and COBOL modernization (16 articles)
• Vivek Velso (Cognizant) — AWS Security Analysis with AI21 Maestro Strands Agents
• Vivek Velso (Cognizant) — Building a Tech Conference Platform with Storyblok and AI
• Vivek Velso (Cognizant) — Crushing the Command Line with Amazon Q
• Vivek Velso (Cognizant) — June Calendar: Interactive Celebration Calendar
• Vivek Velso (Cognizant) — AI Resume Ranking System
• Vivek Velso (Cognizant) — The AI Pair Programmer in GitHub
• Vivek Velso (Cognizant) — Building a Scalable Multi-tenant Generative AI Platform
• Vivek Velso (Cognizant) — Building an Intelligent AWS Cloud Engineer Agent
• Vivek Velso (Cognizant) — Financial Signals Dashboard
• Vivek Velso (Cognizant) — How I Built a Serverless Agentic AI Meme Generator
• Vivek Velso (Cognizant) — How I Used Nova Act to Find the Best Hotel Deals
• Vivek Velso (Cognizant) — Implementing Nova Act MCP Server on ECS Fargate
• Zakaria Dahani (Atos) — Building Generative AI Applications with Amazon Bedrock Agents
• Zakaria Dahani (Atos) — Building Generative AI Applications with Amazon Bedrock Agents (Part 2)

UKI (United Kingdom and Ireland)

• Debadatta Panda (TCS) — Clinical Data Analysis with Amazon Bedrock
• Dorian Sezen (kloia) — AWS vs Huawei Cloud
• Dorian Sezen (kloia) — Evolution to IDPs and AWS Footprint
• Jason Oliver (Colibri Digital) — The Indispensable Engine: AI & Cloud Computing
• Matt Houghton (CDL) — CI/CD For Bedrock Evaluations
• Matt Lewis (IBM) — Java Code Transformation Using the Amazon Q Developer GitHub Integration
• Matt Lewis (IBM) — Next Gen Developer Experience with Amazon Q Developer
• Prasenjit Roychoudhury (TCS) — Case Study of a Custom Circuit Breaker
• Prasenjit Roychoudhury (TCS) — Deploying AWS SSM Agent as a Sidecar
• Prasenjit Roychoudhury (TCS) — Performance Analysis of Auto-scaled Microservices
• Prasenjit Roychoudhury (TCS) — Using Apache Bench and AWS X-Ray
• Radhakrishna Banavalikar (TCS) — Autonomous AI DevOps
• Radhakrishna Banavalikar (TCS) — Beyond MD5: Implementing Transformer-based Fuzzy Deduplication

Welcome to our latest AWS Ambassadors

We are excited to introduce our newest AWS Ambassadors from Q2 2025!

JAPAN

Akira Sato (Deloitte Tohmatsu) Hidekazu Masui (Works Human Intelligence) Hirokazu Namitani (Accenture) Hiroki Takahashi (NS Solutions) Hiroki Tsujikawa (Skyarch) Hironobu Otaki (SHIFT) Kazuki Miura (Heptagon) Kyohei Kondo (Serverworks) Nagisa Gomi (NS Solutions) Naoki Ishihara (Saison Technology) Shinji Tsubouchi (JSOL) Shinnosuke Takakuni (Classmethod) Shu Kawanishi (Fujisoft) Takaaki Kakei (Classmethod) Takuma Matsuo (Insight Technology) Yuto Fukunaga (NHN Techorus)

NAMER

Leonid Gimelshtein (Allcloud)

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!