Meet Our New AWS Ambassadors from Q1 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 across the world.

ANZ

• Alan Blockley (Itoc) — Amazon Cognito – Function over form
• Ariharan Ramanathan (Spark Business Group) — ABAC for AWS resource access – Part 1
• Bojan Zivic (Mantel Group) — Astro + SST: AWS SPA made easy
• Chiwai Chan (Spark Business Group) — I am switching to AWS CDK
• Denys Tyshetskyy (CyberCX) — How CyberCX Leverages AWS to Enable Data Masking for Non-Production Environments
• Dinesh Sharma (Datacom) — Building a Weather App with AWS Amplify: A Step-by-Step Guide
• Greg Luxford (Cevo) — The 7 Laws of Building for the Frugal Architect
• Ian Mckay (Kablamo) — HTTPS Endpoints and more tricks with AWS Step Functions
• Wayne Hayes (WOLK Technology) — Collaboration with customers, partners, and suppliers to promote sustainability across the entire value chai

ASEAN

• Thomas Smart (Sourced Group) — Security In The Cloud
• Akesh Patil (Blazeclan) — Enhance AWS Account Security: Enforcing IMDSv2 for Launching EC2 Instances Safely
• Hai Nguyentien (Megazone) — What’s Gateway API and how to deploy on AWS?
• Varun Kumar Manik (Deloitte) — Embracing the Future: The Synergy of AWS Cloud Computing and IoT

CHINA

• Gary Guo (Accenture) — Using AWS Application Discovery Service for service discovery and evaluation
• Yitao Cen (Fortinet) — Automatically deploy FortiWeb WAF to protect application passwords from brute force cracking
• Song Tan (TCS) — AWS Config rule introduction
• Yipeng Zhao (Wangsu) — Use the CloudFront signed URL function to generate a temporary URL to upload content to S3
• Yuezu Wang (Marshotspot) — Amazon Cloud Technology IPv4 address charging countdown
• Daryl Li (PwC) — Ensuring Responsible and Explainable Gen AI with AWS Bedrock
• Yanfeng Huo (Eccom) — Fine-grained filtering of Amazon WAF logs
• Yipeng Zhao ( Wangsu) — Introduction Practice of Terraform Deploying Resources in AWS
• Yitao Cen (Fortinet) — Automated deployment solution for HTTPS decryption and antivirus detection using FortiGate
• Zheng Guo (VAP-VSTECS) — AWS GWLB and FortiGate Best practices for cross account traffic detection between

EMEA

• Philip Basford (Inawisdom) — Automate Labeling for Intelligent Document Processing with Inawisdom and Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth
• Oleksii Bebych (Automat-IT) — Using AWS IAM Identity Center for SSO to access shared services
• Brian Madden (Accenture) — Amazon Connect SMS – Enabling Two Way SMS
• Jason Oliver (Nasstar) — Best Practices for AWS Cost Optimisation & Financial Management
• Jon Topper (The Scale Factory) — How The Scale Factory Overhauled ITV’s Video on Demand Ad Platform with SaaS on AWS
• Alejandro Lazaro Chueca (NTT Data EMEAL) — Comprehensive Guide to Amazon API Gateway Integrations
• Javier Carrera (DoIT International) — List EC2 instances making calls to the Instance Metadata Service using IMDSv1
• Jimmy Dahlqvist (Sigma Technology) — Serverless statistics solution with Lambda@Edge
• Matteo Depascale (Reply) — Building a Serverless Newsletter: Your Guide to AWS and Amazon SES
• Debadatta Panda (TCS) — User Feedback Summarize using Amazon Bedrock
• Gernot Glawe (tecRacer) — From fragile to formidable: How to detect, fix and prevent container vulnerabilities with Inspector and Docker Scout

INDIA

• Bhupali Tambekar (Comprinno) — AWS Well-Architected Framework Reviews Powered by Tevico: Transforming…
• Bhavesh Goswami (CloudThat) — Rocket Learning Scales its Digital Classroom Solutions by 50% to Support 2 Million Users on AWS
• Sapna Mandhare (LTIMindTree) — Optimizing content delivery for global streaming platform with AWS Global Accelerator
• Umashankar Nedunchezhian (1CloudHub) — Top Generative AI Use Cases in 2024 | Gen AI Examples for Enterprises
• Raji Krishnamoorthy (TCS) — Ingesting external logs into Amazon Security Lake using Amazon Glue St…
• RamaKrishna Ponnaluri (PwC) — The Response from Generative AI depends on Our Intelligence more than the Intelligence within It
• Rahul Sharma (SourceFuse) — How To Do Rock-Solid Terraform Testing
• Prarthit Mehta (CloudThat) — Introducing a Game-Changing Chat Experience for AWS Glue: Amazon Q Data Integration (Preview)

JAPAN

• Hideto Haraguchi (Seeds) — Benchmarked Amazon EC2 R7i and C7i instances equipped with the latest Intel CPUs.
• Ippei Nishiyama (GeekFeed) — Inventory and organize IAM users in your organization
• Kazushi Sonoda (CTC) — Thinking about cost reduction from architecture review No.1
• Masayuki Goto (Hitachi Systems) — EC2 construction and troubleshooting with Amazon Q [as of December 2023]
• Ryota Yamamoto (Classmethod) — [Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP] Checked whether the data reduction effect of the aggregate layer can be maintained even after moving it to a capacity pool and then writing it back to SSD
• Sho Kimishima (GeekFeed) — Eliminate unnecessary S3 costs by checking incomplete multipart uploads with CLI
• Takashi Kouzu (Skyarch Networks) — Detecting mining software running in Fargate environment using Amazon GuardDuty ECS Runtime Monitoring
• Tomotaka Kizawa (SCSK) — Make a “Escape Meeting Button” by Soracom LTE-M Button
• Tomoya Oka (Accenture) — Comparing Claude2 and 2.1 using Amazon Bedrock and LangChain Workshop
• Yusuke Shimizu (NRI Netcom) — Netcom advent calendar made with generative AI

KOREA

• ChiSong Yu (LG CNS) — Revealing the know-how of ‘Fuzzy String Matching’.
• Dongin Kwon (LG CNS) — Making chatbot using Amazon Bedrock
• Jihun Lim (GS Neotek) — ReAct leverages LLM as a reasoning engine
• SeonBo Shim (Bespin Global) — AWS Graviton Migration Experience
• SeonBo Shim (Bespin Global) — Securing S3 Origins with CloudFront Signed URLs
• Seongwoo Choi (GS Neotek) — Guide for Amazon Bedrock to build an easy and affordable RAG
• Seongwoo Choi (GS Neotek) — Building Slack AI Bot using Serverless
• SoJeong Baek (Megazone Cloud) — Using Pinecone with Bedrock Knowledge Base

LATAM

• Maria Claudia Marquez (Caleidos) — Iniciando en AWS DeepRacer: Introducción a Reinforcement Learning
• Alejandro Velez (Sophos Solutions) — DevSecOps with AWS- Ephemeral Environments – Creating test Environments On-Demand – Part 2
• Claudio Acquaviva (Kong) — Kong Konnect Data Plane 3.5 Deployment and Plugin Configuration with AWS Secrets Manager, IRSA and EKS 1.28
• Claudio Acquaviva (Kong) — Kong Konnect Data Plane Elasticity on Amazon EKS 1.29: Pod Autoscaling with VPA
• Fabricio Mariani (Blue Sentry Cloud) — 7 Costly Mistakes to Avoid When Deploying Your Application to AWS
• Neylson Crepalde (A3Data) — Processing over 450M events per day in real time with AWS
• Carlos Alberto Marangon (Nextios) — Amazon CodeWhisperer – Produtividade e segurança
• Carlos Diego Cavalcanti (Valcann) — Implementando alertas automatizados no AWS Health Dashboard

NAMER

• Satrajit Basu (TCG Digital Solutions) — Sentiment Analysis: How Amazon Aurora Machine Learning and Comprehend Can Revolutionize Customer Review Analysis
• Todd Bernson (Blue Sentry Cloud) — Automating API Information Storage with AWS – Technical Deep Dive into Automated API Information Storage System
• Justin Cook (Eviden) — Why to Use Amazon ElastiCache Serverless for Redis and Memcached
• Vivek Velso (Cognizant) — Orchestrating Super Mario Bros. Game Deployment on Amazon EKS Cluster with Blueprints for AWS CDK

Welcome to our latest AWS Ambassadors

We are excited to introduce our newest AWS Ambassadors from Q1 2024!

ASEAN

• Minh Le (Renova Cloud)
• Richard Kang (DoiT International)

CHINA

• Wen Che Chung (CKmates)

EMEA

• Hamzeh Shaghlil (Bespin Global)
• Oguzhan Selcuk Hiziroglu (Yonetim.Academy)
• Javier Carrera (DoiT International)
• Matteo Depascale (Reply)
• Tolgahan Demirbaş (Best Cloud For Me)

INDIA

• Satyajit Samantaray (Searce)
• Ashutosh Dixit (LTIMindtree)

LATAM

• Nicolas Archila (Pragma)
• David Victoria (Caylent)

NAMER

• Brian Tarbox (Caylent)
• Mahmood Rahimi (Blue Sentry Cloud)
• Rola Dali (RapidScale)

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!