AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog
New AWS Ambassadors from Q1 2023 and Latest Ambassador Activities
By Matthijs ten Seldam, Global Program Manager – AWS Ambassador Program
By Daniel Bugarin, Program Manager – AWS
The AWS Ambassador Program is a vibrant worldwide community of technical experts, known as AWS Ambassadors, from our AWS Partner Network (APN) Services and Software Partners.
AWS Ambassadors are prominent leaders who are passionate about sharing their Amazon Web Services (AWS) technical expertise. They author blogs and whitepapers, create and deliver public presentations, contribute to open-source projects, and drive their organization’s AWS proficiency.
AWS Ambassadors evangelize AWS via social media and facilitate peer-to-peer learning by presenting at conferences, leading workshops, and hosting user group events. As a result of their membership in the AWS Ambassador Program, AWS Partner team members can gain advanced knowledge and sharpen their technical delivery best practices.
What Have Our AWS Ambassadors Been Up To?
Local AWS communities are a vital resource for cloud professionals around the world, and many of these are hosted by AWS Ambassadors. Members of local communities look to their leaders to provide guidance and mentorship on how to build AWS skills, solve technical problems, and grow their careers.
Here are several examples of the technical expertise shared by AWS Ambassadors across the world.
ANZ
- Joshua Lopez (Versent) – Modernizing eHealth NSW’s Infrastructure with AWS Professional Services and Versent
- Nanthan Rasiah (Telstra Purple) – Amazon Redshift Table Schema Generator
- Bojan Zivic, Dawn Collett, Matthew Gillard (CMD, Innablr, Contino) – Melbourne AWS User Group #122 – January 2023 Live Stream (panel starts ~25:08)
- Chiwai Chan (Leaven) – FeedMyFurBabies – Event-Sourcing Using Amazon EventBridge
ASEAN
- Niran Sohinkong (True IDC) – AWS Core Services: Storage and Database on AWS
- JV Roig (Cascadeo) – Multi-Threading in AWS Lambda, Part 4: Massive Throughput and Cost Efficiency
- Kieran Yio (Sourced Group) – Restricting Access to AWS Based on Source IP and its Considerations
- Gokul Bala (Crayon) – Ansible Scripts for Deploying Services in an AWS Environment
China
- Yitao Cen (Fortinet) – AWS Cloud-WAN Integrates Fortinet SD-WAN and Zenlayer Resources
EMEA
- Colin Barker (DevOpsGroup) – Enabling IPv6 on AWS Using Terraform (Part 1)
India
- Sanchit Jain (Quantiphi) – LeasePlan Streamlines Fleet Operations with Cloud-Native Telematics
Japan
- Tomotaka Kizawa (SCSK) – AWS Region Selection with Sustainability in Mind
- Shuhei Honma (iret) – Using Amazon OpenSearch Serverless in AWS IoT Core
- Kuninori Kunimoto, Fumiaki Ueno (Deloitte Tohmatsu Web Services, NRI Netcom) – Panel Discussion About In-Source Project for Customers
- Fumiaki Ueno (NRI Netcom) – DOHARDTHINGS Interview with AWS Ambassadors
Korea
- Heeseok Jeong (LG CNS) – Network Separation Using Multiple Transit Gateways
LATAM
- Claudio Acquaviva (Kong) – Implementing a Hybrid Kong Konnect Data Plane in Amazon ECS
NAMER
- Collin Smith (Xerris) – Santa’s AWS Workshop! (Serverless Event-Driven Approach)
- Arun Daniel (CDW) – Centralize Resource Management with AWS RAM
- Steven Smiley (Scalesec) – Consistently Optimizing AWS Cloud Costs
Welcome to Our Latest AWS Ambassadors
We are proud to introduce our newest AWS Ambassadors from Q4 2022!
ANZ
- Geethika Guruge (CMD Solutions)
- Stefan Evans (Consegna)
ASEAN
- Ardi Hanitya (Westcon-Comstor)
EMEA
- Monica Colangelo (NTT DATA EMEAL)
- Chris Bingham (Cloudreach)
- Adam Divall (GlobalLogic)
- Martyn Killbryde (D55)
India
- Arvind Kumar Verma (Infosys)
- Phanikiran Patruni (PwC)
- Rajas Walavalkar (Quantiphi)
- RamaKrishna Ponnaluri (PwC)
- Chinmay Mandal (PwC)
- Gaurav Kankaria (Ganit)
- Piyush Agrawal (i2k2 Networks)
Korea
- ChiSong Yu (LG CNS)
- Dongin Kwon (LG CNS)
- Heeseok Jeong (LG CNS)
- Suhye Jung (LG CNS)
LATAM
- Ricardo Gonzalez Vargas (Clouxter)
NAMER
- Collin Smith (Xerris)
More About the AWS Ambassador Program
To learn more about the program and see current AWS Ambassadors, visit our AWS Ambassador Program page.
If you are an employee of an AWS Services Partner at the Advanced or Premier tier, or an AWS Software Partner at the validated stage, hold multiple AWS Certifications, and contribute to the AWS community through public presentations, open source projects, and social media, see if you qualify for the AWS Ambassador Program.
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!