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Meet Our New AWS Ambassadors from Q1 2025 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 Q1-2025 across the world.
ANZ (Australia and New Zealand)
- Alan Blockley (Thoughtworks) — Building a Serverless Web Mailer with AWS
- Ariharan Ramanathan (Spark Business Group) — AWS ECS with GPU Access
- Dinesh Sharma (Datacom) — GenAI Powered Chatbot using Bedrock & Lex
- Freddy Ho (CyberCX) — Offboard GitLab CI/CD Long Running Tasks with AWS Step Functions
- Greg Luxford (Cevo) — Install SSM Agent on Unmanaged EC2 Instances
- Greg Luxford (Cevo) — Reducing Risk: Why Engaging an AWS Partner Matters to Your Business
- Jason Wood (Telstra) — Simplify Access: A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Multiple AWS Accounts
- Jem Richards (Redbear IT) — What Are the Three Pillars of AWS Security Incident Response?
- Lee Murphy (Datacom) — Deploying an AWS Control Tower Landing Zone with Terraform
- Lee Murphy (Datacom) — AWS Code Pipeline Can Now Deploy Code Natively to Amazon EKS Clusters
- Matthew Merriel (CMD Solutions) — State of Generative AI on AWS 2025
- Nivlesh Chandra (Cognizant) — Create a Photo Location Map Using Amazon Cognito, Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda and Amazon S3 – Part 1
- Nivlesh Chandra (Cognizant) — Create a Photo Location Map Using Amazon Cognito, Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda and Amazon S3 – Part 2
- Rahul Grover (Slalom) — re:Invent 2024 Announcements from a Software Engineering Lens
- Rian Brooks-Kane (Idea 11) — How to Centrally Manage AWS Root Access: Best Practices for Enhanced Security and Governance
- Scott Baldwin (Telstra) — Aurora MySQL Serverless v2 Upgrade
- Steven Tan (AC3) — Automating Centralised Root Access on AWS Organisation Accounts
ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations)
- Akesh Patil (Blazeclan Technologies) — Centralizing AWS Tag Monitoring and Remediation with AWS Config
- Gokul Bala (Crayon) — Unlock business growth with AWS MAP Academy EMEA
- Richard Kang (DoiT International) — Hosting Your LLM Model on Amazon SageMaker for AI-Assisted Coding
CHINA
- MingYe Xia (Simba Innovation) — Deep Dive into AWS Traffic Cost Optimization from Explorer
- MingYe Xia (Simba Innovation) — How to Publish EC2 GPU Metrics to AWS CloudWatch
- Song Tan (TCS) — Introduction to AWS Lambda Function URLs
- Song Tan (TCS) —AWS Lambda Pre-Configured Concurrency
- Song Tan (TCS) — Managing Lambda Provisioning Concurrency with Application Auto Scaling at AWS
- Song Tan (TCS) — AWS Lambda Code Signing Testing
- Wen Che Chung (CKmates) — How to reduce the size of RDS hard disk if it is too big?
- Yuezu Wang (Marshotspot) — CloudTrail Event Filtering and Alerting via CloudWatch Logs
- Yuezu Wang (Marshotspot) — Build your own AWS AI cloud technologist with AWS NOVA and agent technologies
EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa)
- Alejandro Lazaro Chueca (NTT Data EMEAL) — Quick Wins That Matter: Improve Your AWS Architecture Now
- Alejandro Lazaro Chueca (NTT Data EMEAL) — Amazon Lex en la era de la IA Generativa: Creando Chatbots Inteligentes
- Alejandro Lazaro Chueca (NTT Data EMEAL) — How to Design Effective Prompts in Amazon Bedrock
- Alejandro Lazaro Chueca (NTT Data EMEAL) — Amazon Bedrock 101: Understanding Its Foundational Models
- Anton Isaiev (EPAM) — Building a Simple SaaS Service for Clearing Cloud Accounts Using Nuke and AWS Batch
- Cedric De Schepper (Deloitte) — Migrating an AWS Ingress Hub to CloudFront VPC Origins for Enhanced Security
- David Krohn (globaldatanet) — Securing Digital Sovereignty for Regulated Industries
- Hamzeh Shaghlil (Bespin Global) — How AWS Supercharges Nutanix NC2 Deployments
- Hendrik Hagen (Ingram Micro) — Building a transactional data lake using Lake Formation and Apache Iceberg Part 1
- Hendrik Hagen (Ingram Micro) — Building a transactional data lake using Lake Formation and Apache Iceberg Part 2
- Hendrik Hagen (Ingram Micro) — Building a transactional data lake using Lake Formation and Apache Iceberg Part 3
- Hendrik Hagen (Ingram Micro) — Setup an AWS KMS custom key store using AWS CloudHSM
- Javier Carrera (DoiT International) — Capturing Detailed Amazon SES Email Logs in CloudWatch Logs
- Javier Carrera (DoiT International) — Optimizing Multi-Architecture Container Image Builds on AWS
- Jimmy Dahlqvist (Sigma Technology) — PEP and PDP for Secure Authorization with AVP
- Jimmy Dahlqvist (Sigma Technology) — PEP and PDP for Secure Authorization with Cognito
- Julian Michel (Capgemini) — Automating Secure CloudWatch Alarms with CDK Monitoring Constructs and Encrypted SNS
- Krzysztof Kąkol (Xebia) — Ensuring Data Protection in Amazon Bedrock
- Marco Kuendig (Copebit) — Elastic Infrastructure on AWS
- Maurice Borgmeier (tecRacer) — Which AWS Regions are Lambda@Edge Functions Executed In?
- Oleksii Bebych (Automat-IT) — Generate Terraform Code Using Amazon Q Developer
- Sven Leiß (MHP) — Refactoring AWS CDK Stacks: Practical Lessons and the New AWS CloudFormation Stack Refactoring
- Sven Leiß (MHP) — Revolutionizing Software Development: AI Agents in the AWS Ecosystem
- Thomas Heinen (Reply) — Drifting Out of AWS Control?
- Thomas Heinen (Reply) — Split Personalities: Making On-Premises Machines Boot on AWS
INDIA
- Abhinivesh Jain (Wipro) — AWS Landing Zone Setup – Part 3
- Ankur Chawla (Rackspace) — Centralizing Security: Integrating Amazon GuardDuty Findings with Splunk and Beyond
- Ankur Chawla (Rackspace) — Elastic VMware Service (EVS): Revolutionizing VMware Migration to AWS
- Ankur Chawla (Rackspace) — Leveraging Generative AI on AWS for Predictive Maintenance in Manufacturing Sector
- Anoop Prasad (Umbrella Infocare) — Ensuring Business Continuity with AWS Disaster Recovery Service
- Bakrudeen Kalibullah (ShellKode) — DeepSeek R1 Benchmark Comparison: Evaluating Performance & Cost Efficiency
- Bakrudeen Kalibullah (ShellKode) — Streaming Agent Responses Using Bedrock Agent API
- Bharthvajan G (PwC) — API Documentation Assistant: Building an Intelligent Q&A System with Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Base
- Bhuvanesh R (ShellKode) — Amazon Q Business: Revolutionizing Visual Data Interpretation with AI
- Bhuvanesh R (ShellKode) — How Low Cardinality Columns Cause InnoDB Temp File Overload in Amazon RDS
- Bhuvanesh R (ShellKode) — RDS Scheduler Job Led to 21TB Inter-AZ Data Transfer on AWS
- Bhuvaneswari Subramani (Intuitive Cloud) — Journey to the Future of Developers
- Chinmay Mandal (PwC) — Host Your Private Static Website Using S3 with Interface VPC Endpoint
- Chinmay Mandal (PwC) — Migrate Data from One DynamoDB Table to Other Using AWS Lambda
- Gaurav Kankaria (Oneture) — Identifying Key SKUs to Drive Customer Loyalty in Supermarkets Using AWS & Neo4j
- Gaurav Kankaria (Oneture) — Multi-Agent Workflow for Quick Commerce on AWS
- Gaurav Kankaria (Oneture) — Using Gen AI & Neo4j on AWS to Build a Semantic Search Engine for E-commerce
- Nagababu Medicharla (Searce) — Optimising Costs with Valkey on Amazon ElastiCache
- Piyush Jalan (Intuitive Technology Partners) — Gen AI Powered Healthcare Queries with AWS Kendra & Bedrock
- Rahul Sharma (SourceFuse) — AWS DataSync Tutorial
- Rahul Sharma (SourceFuse) — AWS DMS Tutorial
- Rahul Sharma (SourceFuse) — AWS Lake Formation and Glue Integration
- Raji Krishnamoorthy (TCS) — Enhancing Search in Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Base
- Raji Krishnamoorthy (TCS) — Automating Cross-Account IAM Roles in AWS Cloud
- RamaKrishna Ponnaluri (PwC) — Industrial Evolution: Helping Engineers to Slash Break Down Maintenance Time with Gen AI
- Ramandeep Kalear (Tech Mahindra) — Resilience SAP HANA Application Using AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
- Ravi Intodia (Infosys) — Understanding and Optimizing S3 Object Tagging Costs
- Sapna Mandhare (Capgemini) — Leveraging Amazon S3 Conditional Writes with ETag
- Satish Srinivasan (Infosys) — AI Based Search Using SearXNG, AWS Bedrock & Perplexia
- Satyajit Samantaray (Searce) — Automate Your Kubernetes Backups with Velero
- Satyajit Samantaray (Searce) — AWS Kubernetes Migration Factory: Seamless Kubernetes Cluster Migration
- Umashankar Nedunchezhian (1CloudHub) — Enhancing Accuracy in RAG Applications with AWS Bedrock: The Role of Re-ranking
- Vilas Katte (Infosys) — Charge Back Process of Saving Plan Recurring Fees in Large AWS Organization
JAPAN
- Ai Hayakawa (Nomura Research Institute) — Karpenter: Cost optimization with flexible node management
- Hayato Kosugi (Saison Technology) — Working hard on pagination of AWS Cost Explorer API
- Hayato Tan (NRI Netcom) — Dramatically reduce your monthly accounting work burden by using AWS billing agency & AWS account management service – Use AWS Organizations exclusive plan
- Hideto Haraguchi (Seeds) — A memo about running the AI development tool cline with EC2 (g6.xlarge) Ollama + Open WebUI + qwen2.5-coder-tools
- Hiroaki Aga (Megazone Cloud) — Utilize internal security data cross-sectionally! Cross-account Amazon Security Lake × Athena analysis practice
- Hiroshi Hayakawa (Hitachi) — S3 growth record in 2024
- Hiroshi Nidegawa (TIS) — Security measures to safely use Storage Browser for Amazon S3
- Junki Tamae (iret) — Understanding AWS AI and improving development efficiency with SageMaker Pipelines to make AI development easier
- Kazuaki Morita (Fujisoft) — Update GenU fastest! One-click update technique realized with AWS CodePipeline
- Kazushi Sonoda (ITOCHU) — Manage large-scale AWS NW (VPC endpoint, Route53 share) (1)
- Kazuya Asawa (Accenture) — I tried generating an AWS configuration diagram with Bedrock Engineer.
- Keisuke Matsuda (iret) — DevOps practices for web applications running on ECS (Laravel)
- Kiminori Yokoi (TIS) — Consider practices for safely proceeding with application development using Cline and Roo Code
- Masanori Mano (NTT Data) — Analyzing problems with Stratoshark in a cloud environment
- Masayuki Goto (Hitachi Systems) — Verification of environmental assessment based on RTO (Recovery Time Objective) and RPO (Recovery Point Objective) with AWS Resilience Hub
- Ryota Yamamoto (Classmethod) — What to do if you run out of free IP addresses when trying to create multiple AWS DataSync tasks
- Ryuta Kubota (NEC) — Automate AWS CodeConnections sharing using AWS RAM with Terraform
- Shigeki Nara (Kyndryl) — Benefits of using AWS MSAD as an IdP for Identity Center
- Shigeyoshi Takahashi (ITOCHU) — Secure and centralize root account management
- Shota Shiratori (NTT East) — Best practices for using security groups and network access lists to effectively control communication
- Shotaro Saito (Deloitte Tohmatsu) — 10 points to note about AWS resource tags
- Shuichi Takahashi (iret) — AWS Cost Categories with OU Structure
- Taihei Matsuo (Forgevision) — Guide to optimizing storage costs for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
- Takahito Iwasa (Classmethod) — Link data between DynamoDB tables using DynamoDB Streams with Amplify Gen2
- Takashi Kouzu (Skyarch Networks) — Use Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics Canary and Bedrock for web scraping
- Takumi Tomita (Hitachi) — Confirmation of latency impact in AP-DB separation pattern
- Yasuaki Okumura (NTT Data) — AWS Firewall Manager’s AWS Organizations integration function
- Yasuyuki Sato (Deloitte Tohmatsu) — Building consumer applications with Kinesis Client Library 3 (KCL) and Spring Boot
- Yoshihiro Hotta (NEC) — What is Government Cloud Template? We will explain the overview and points to consider.
- Yuji Hirono (SCSK) — Lambda resolver that allows only specific user groups to execute using AWS AppSync with Amazon Cognito authentication
KOREA
- Dongwoo Lee (SK) — Application Monitoring with CloudWatch RUM
- Jihun Lim (GS Neotek) — Implementing OpenAI-compatible APIs with Amazon Bedrock Access Gateway
- Jihun Lim (GS Neotek) — Exploring Amazon Kendra GenAI Index with Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases
- Minhyeok Cha (SmileShark) — Managing Amazon S3 with Metadata
- SeonBo Shim (Bespin Global) — Amazon MSK Connect CDC Hands-on
- SeonBo Shim (Bespin Global) — Configure AWS SES and Set Up DMARC for Enhanced Email Security
LATAM (Latin America)
- Alejandro Velez (GFT) — GitOps and IaC at Scale: AWS, ArgoCD, Terragrunt and OpenTofu – Part 1
- Carlos Alberto Marangon (Nextios) — GenAI e o consumo de tokens – Isso é custo!
- Carlos Diego Cavalcanti (EPI-USE) — O que é o AWS Landing Zone e como implementá-lo usando Terraform
NAMER (North America)
- Brian Tarbox (Caylent) — Getting Started with Agentic AI on AWS
- Brian Tarbox (Caylent) — Modern Healthcare Apps on AWS
- Brian Tarbox (Caylent) — The Art of Designing Bedrock Agents: Parallels with Traditional API Design
- Clement Pakkam Isaac (Deloitte) — Building Scalable Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with AWS
- Connor McCrory (PwC) — Modernizing .NET Applications: Starting Your Journey with AWS
- Matt Barlow (StratusGrid) — Tweet about AWS
- Noor Alsabahi (BSC Analytics) — Developing Anomaly Detection in AWS
- Noor Alsabahi (BSC Analytics) — Redefining Hiring Process – AI Powered Using Natural Language
- Noor Alsabahi (BSC Analytics) — Time Series Analysis & Forecasting Using ARIMA
- Noor Alsabahi (BSC Analytics) — Time Series Analysis & Forecasting Using SARIMA
- Noor Alsabahi (BSC Analytics) — Time Series Analysis & Forecasting Using Smoothing
- Noor Alsabahi (BSC Analytics) — Redefining Hiring Process – AI Powered Using Natural Language
- Raghavan Madabusi (Info Services) — Building a Scalable Data Science Environment with AWS ML Services
- Rola Dali (RapidScale) — Processing Invoices with AWS Textract
- Satrajit Basu (TCG Digital Solutions) — Amazon EMR to EMR on EKS Transition
- Steven Smiley (Scalesec) — Deploying and Tagging ECR Container Images in AWS CodePipeline
- Todd Bernson (BSC analytics) — Real-Time AI Data Enrichment for Legacy Workloads in AWS
- Todd Bernson (BSC analytics) — Automating the Training Pipeline with Terraform and SageMaker
- Todd Bernson (BSC analytics) — Batch Inference with SageMaker Endpoints
- Todd Bernson (BSC analytics) — Enhancing Security Compliance for Mainframe Migrations on AWS
- Todd Bernson (BSC analytics) — Evaluating Model Performance Using SageMaker
- Todd Bernson (BSC analytics) — Future-Proofing Enterprise Data Processing in AWS: Why Kubernetes is Key
- Todd Bernson (BSC analytics) — Infrastructure as Code: Scaling Mainframe Workloads on AWS with Terraform
- Trevor Sullivan (Stratusgrid) — Automate Software Development with Aider and Amazon Bedrock
- Vivek Velso (Cognizant) — Building the KCSA Exam Simulator on Amazon EKS Cluster Running Kubernetes v1.32 Code Penelope
- Vivek Velso (Cognizant) — DeepSeek R1 Inference on AWS Lambda Using Function URL (No API Gateway Needed)
- Vivek Velso (Cognizant) — Deploying DeepSeek R1 on ECS Fargate with Open WebUI: A Scalable Ollama AI Solution
- Zakaria Dahani (Eviden) — Building Generative AI Applications with Amazon Bedrock Agents
UKI (United Kingdom and Ireland)
- Adam Divall (GlobalLogic) — Landing Zone Accelerator – Part 6
- Colin Barker (Expert Thinking) — GitHub Actions OIDC Update
- Jason Oliver (Nasstar) — How AI is Turning ROT Data into Business Intelligence
- Jason Oliver (Nasstar) — The Silent Sustainability Crisis that Lurks Beneath the Surface
- Matt Lewis (IBM) — Amazon Q Developer Transform for .NET
- Philip Basford (Cognizant) — Is the Future Economy Conversational?
- Satish Natarajan (Deloitte) — Keeping the Cloud Running Smoothly: Operations Perspective
- Johnny Chivers (PwC) – Amazon DynamoDB Pre Warming: Why it matters
- Johnny Chivers (PwC) – From Brisbane to Bedrock: Why Your Code Might Be Your Biggest Liability
Welcome to our latest AWS Ambassadors
We are excited to introduce our newest AWS Ambassadors from Q1 2025!
ASEAN
Ravi Channavajhala (Accenture)
Tuan Vu Dinh (OSAM)
CHINA
Yebao Xu (Vstecs)
EMEA
Cedric De Schepper (Deloitte)
Amine Ait El Harraj (Reply)
Chris Bingham (Fujitsu)
Surjeet Singh Sachdeva (TCS)
Hakki Ibrahim Unyeli (Limoncloud)
INDIA
Akhil Khandelwal (AceCloud)
Arshik Dhar (PwC)
KOREA
Sang Hyun Jo (Samsung SDS)
Dongwoo Lee (SK)
NAMER
Clement Pakkam Isaac (Deloitte)
Nausheen Jawed (PwC)
Trevor Sullivan (Stratusgrid)
Ajith Joseph (Deloitte)
Anthony Wat (Softchoice)
Elad Hirsch (Terasky)
UKI
Johnny Chivers (PwC)
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!