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Congrats to Our 2023 AWS Ambassador Award Winners and Meet the Newest AWS Ambassadors
By Matthijs ten Seldam, Global Program Manager – AWS Ambassador Program
The AWS Ambassador Program is a vibrant worldwide community of Amazon Web Services (AWS) experts, known as AWS Ambassadors, from AWS Partner Network (APN) Services and Software Partners.
AWS Ambassadors are prominent leaders who are passionate about sharing their AWS 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 gain advanced knowledge and sharpen their AWS expertise.
AWS Ambassador Awards 2023
At the fifth annual AWS Ambassador Global Summit in September, we kicked off a two-day event in Seattle with 78 Ambassadors from 67 unique AWS Partners from more than 22 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 honored to recognize this year’s top AWS Ambassadors for their outstanding performance and exemplary business impact and thought leadership. Following are the 2023 AWS Ambassador award recipients.
We also recognized the AWS Ambassador Certification All-Stars who have shown technical depth by holding all active AWS Certifications.
What Have Our AWS Ambassadors Been Up To?
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.
Here are several examples of thought leadership shared by AWS Ambassadors across the world.
ANZ
- Alan Blockley (Itoc) – AWS on Twitch: Learn with AWS Experts | Making Serverless Easy
- Chiwai Chan (Leaven) – AWS on Twitch: From the Field | Cat Feeders at the Edge
- Damien Coyle (Comunet) – Peer Programming Reimagined with Amazon CodeWhisperer
- Ian McKay (Kablamo) – Swiping Right on the AWS WAF CAPTCHA Challenge
- Josh Armitage (Contino) – AWS Account Vending Machine
ASEAN
- Akesh Patil (Blazeclan) – Effortless AWS Network Firewall Rule Creation with Terraform: A Step-by-Step Guide
- KangZheng Li (Sourced Group) – AWS Cross-Account Deployment with Terraform
- Niran Soh (True Internet Data Center) – AWS Core Services: AWS Data Analytics
- Hai Nguyen (Megazone Cloud) – How to Migrate Apache Solr from the Existing Xluster to Amazon EKS
CHINA
- Yuezu Wang (Marshotspot) – Amazon Athena and Flowlog Analysis Optimizes NAT Gateway Traffic
- Yanfeng Huo (Eccom) – Amazon Firewall Manager Hide Features
EMEA
- Deniz Parmaksız (Insider) – Real-Time Alerting from Applications Logs in Amazon CloudWatch
- Dirk Michel (MYCOM OSI) – On Amazon EKS and Inspector
- Irene Aguilar (NTT Data EMEAL) – Monolith Decomposition: Architecture Patterns Applied in AWS
- Maarten Bruntink (Nordcloud) – AWS Ambassador Summit 2023
- Maurice Borgmeier (tecRacer) – Teaching boto3 to store floats and datetime objects in DynamoDB
- Patrick Schaumburg (Netlution) – AWS Client VPN – Access Your Virtual Private Cloud
- Roman Tsypuk (Capgemini) – Latest AWS Managed Client VPN Connection
- Sven Leiß (MHP) – Cost and Performance Optimized IaaS on AWS for Development and Production
INDIA
- Sanchit Jain (Quantiphi) – Modern Data Strategy: Analyzing Amazon Redshift Across Sectors
- Anand Gupta (Capgemini) – Package Management in Spring Boot Using AWS CodeArtifact
JAPAN
- Shohei Yamasaki (Serverworks) – 2023 AWS Ambassador Global Summit Business Trip Report & Lightning Talk
- Shiho Nagahama (Bigtree Technology & Consulting) – Lightning Talk at AWS Ambassador Global Summit 2023
- Tomoya Oka (Accenture) – Presentation at Serverless Days Tokyo 2023
KOREA
- ChiSong Yu (LG CNS) – How to Make Disaster Recovery on AWS
- Dongin Kwon (LG CNS) – How to Manage Costs Through Athena Query Constraints for Each User
- Jihun Lim (GS Neotek) – 3 Ways to Use the Hugging Face Model in AWS
LATAM
- Claudio Acquaviva (Kong) – OpenID Connect with Kong Ingress Controller and Amazon Cognito
NAMER
- Braeden Quirante (Confluent) – Unlocking the Future: Predicting Train Crossing Schedules
- Randall Hunt & Mark Olson (Caylent) – Amazon SageMaker Suite
- Collin Smith (Accolite Digital) – Passing the AWS Certified Data Analytics — Specialty Certification
- Matt Barlow (StratusGrid) – Condition Context Keys in AWS IAM: How to Restrict Actions
- Raghavan Madabusi (Info Services) – From Zero to Hero: Building an AWSome Generative AI App
Welcome to Our Latest AWS Ambassadors
We are excited to introduce our newest AWS Ambassadors from Q3 2023!
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- Ariharan Ramanathan (Leaven)
- Chamila de Alwis (Leaven)
- Denys Tyshetskyy (CyberCX)
- Freddy Ho (CyberCX)
- Hitarth Asrani (Leaven)
- Matthew Gillard (Cevo)
- Nick Little (CyberCX)
- Rahul Nagpure (Wipro)
- Simon Wang (AC3)
- Wiliam Dady (Cevo)
CHINA
EMEA
- Ahmed Zamzam (Confluent)
- Ahmet Aydin (Kloia)
- Anton Isaiev (EPAM)
- Artur Schneider (T-Systems)
- Guido Maria Nebiolo (Reply)
- Hendrik Hagen (tecRacer)
- Krzysztof Kąkol (Xebia)
- Patrick Schaumburg (Netlution)
- Sven Leiß (MHP)
INDIA
LATAM
NAMER
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 the AWS community, then you may be a great fit for the program. Please contact your Partner Manager or 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!