AWS Partner Award Winners For 2022: ‘The Best Of The Best’
Unveiled at AWS re:Invent 2022, here are the AWS Partner Award winners for 2022 in North America and on a global basis.
Ruba Borno, AWS’ vice president of worldwide channels and alliances
AWS awarded some of its most innovative and critical partners in the AWS Partner Network for playing key roles in helping build solutions on AWS in 2022.
Unveiled at AWS re:Invent 2022 at the Partner Awards Gala, there were dozens of partner awards handed out on a global and regional basis—such as Systems Integrator of the Year and Security Partner of the Year.
“The fact that you are here today shows that you are actually the best of the best,” said Ruba Borno, AWS’ vice president of worldwide channels and alliances, during the Partner Awards ceremony at AWS re:Invent 2022. “This year, we had more submissions and nominations than any other year ever for our partner awards— over 1,200.”
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AWS re:Invent 2022
The AWS Partner Awards recognize a wide range of AWS partners who have embraced specialization, innovation and collaboration over the past year.
At AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas this week, Borno said AWS wanted to highlight regional and global partners whose business models continue to evolve and thrive on AWS as they work with customers.
For the first time, AWS Partner Awards included a self-nomination process across a number of award categories and specialization areas awarded at the regional and global levels, where all AWS partners were invited to participate and submit a nomination.
A third party analyst firm selected the winners based on strict criteria, AWS said.
AWS created award categories based on impact such as innovation, design, social impact, sustainability, industry and collaboration.
“You earned all of this,” Borno told partners.
CRN breaks down the global and North American winners of the 2022 AWS Partner Awards.
Award winners included:
Accenture
AllCloud
Caylent
Classmethod
Databricks
Deloitte
DNX Solutions
HashiCorp
IBM
Incredibuild
Informatica
Infosys
Larsen and Toubro Infotech (LTI)
Mission Cloud Services
Orca Security
Quantiphi
Slalom
Snowflake
TensorIoT
Trend Micro
Triumph Technology Solutions
Virtusa
Global Systems Integrator Partners of the Year
Global Award Winner: Accenture
North America Award Winner: Deloitte
AWS awarded Accenture and Deloitte the Global Systems Integrator Partner of the Year award for global and North America, respectively.
These global systems integrator partners provided significant contributions related to revenue, launched opportunities, net-new certified individuals and AWS designations earned.
Accenture is one of the largest AWS global partners in the world.
The global professional services company has leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. The Accenture AWS Business Group accelerates end-to-end adoption of AWS, maximizing enterprisewide transformation securely at speed and scale.
Deloitte solutions offer collaborative technologies on AWS to enable banks, insurers, investment managers and real estate institutions to solve business issues.
Deloitte is one of AWS’ most strategic partners. The 345,000-employee strong company provides audit, consulting, tax and advisory services to many of the world’s top brands, including nearly 90 percent of the Fortune 500 and more than 7,000 private companies.
Systems Integrator Partners of the Year
Global Award Winner: Classmethod
North America Award Winner: Slalom
AWS Systems Integrator Partner of the Year was awarded to Classmethod on a global basis and Slalom in North America.
These systems integrator partners provided significant contributions related to revenue, launched opportunities, net-new certified individuals and AWS designations earned around systems integration.
Classmethod is a cloud integrator with expertise in big data, mobile and artificial intelligence.
As an AWS Premier Tier Service Partner with over 15,000 cases and 2,000 AWS certifications, Classmethod delivers end-to-end solutions for companies looking for 24/7 maintenance, data center migration, security measures, and development of big data analytics platforms, mobile apps and AI chatbots.
As an AWS Premier Consulting Partner, Slalom said it brings deep technical expertise to every AWS cloud project.
Slalom has over 2,750 AWS certifications and has completed nearly 1,400 AWS projects. Slalom is focused on strategy, technology and business transformation.
Innovation Partners of the Year
Global Award Winner: IBM
North America Award Winner: Caylent
IBM won AWS Innovation Partner of the Year on a global basis, while Caylent achieved the award for North America.
AWS Innovation Partners of the Year recognizes organizations that deliver innovative consulting, professional, and managed and value-added resale services. Winners IBM and Caylent demonstrated proof in delivering an outstanding customer experience via an integrated life cycle of services—from initial assessments, architecting, developing and deployment of cloud environments to ongoing migration and management of cloud infrastructure and applications.
IBM is an AWS Premier Tier Consulting Partner offering consulting services and software solutions.
For companies looking to enable and accelerate their hybrid cloud journey by leveraging AWS cloud, IBM brings leading-edge technologies and expertise on AWS through a unique combination of IBM Consulting, software and as-a-service capabilities.
Caylent is a cloud-native services company that helps organizations bring the best out of their people and technology using AWS.
Caylent holds the AWS Migration Services competency, AWS SaaS competency, AWS DevOps Service competency as well as the AWS Well-Architected Partner, AWS Public Sector Partner and AWS Built on Control Tower Partner designations. Caylent’s AWS certification count is now over 200.
Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Partners of the Year
Global Award Winner: AllCloud
North America Award Winner: Quantiphi
Winners of the 2022 AWS Partner Awards for artificial intelligence and machine learning were AllCloud on a global basis and Quantiphi in North America.
The artificial intelligence and machine learning award recognizes partners with the AWS Machine Learning competency that have demonstrated expertise in those technologies. Partners were judged based on the number of competencies, value provided to customers and revenue generated.
AllCloud provides an outcome-based managed services framework for AWS customers that allows them to focus on their core business while remaining agile, innovative and cost-effective. AllCloud also looks to reduce operational risk and overhead in the cloud. The company has seven AWS competencies and over 300 professionals certified on AWS.
Quantiphi’s understanding of artificial intelligence use cases in all modalities helps build custom artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions on AWS that optimize enterprises’ key processes and deliver significant impact.
With over 700 AWS approved global professionals and subject matter experts, Quantiphi solves complex business problems by combining industry experience, disciplined cloud, data engineering practices and cutting-edge artificial intelligence research.
Design Partners of the Year
Global Award Winner: Informatica
North America Award Winner: Infosys
Informatica and Infosys won the AWS Design Partner of the Year award on a global and North America basis, respectively.
The award recognizes partners that develop software or hardware devices that run on or are integrated with AWS. Winners have achieved a marque design win in either a software and/or hardware product built on or with AWS.
Informatica powers data management and integration for organizations using AWS by delivering connected and meaningful data from the cloud, on-premises and at the edge. Informatica and AWS aim to drive better analysis and accelerate transformational outcomes by modernizing customers’ cloud data warehouses or data lakes.
At AWS re:Invent this week, Informatica said its data loader will now directly embed in the Amazon Redshift console.
Infosys is a global and managed service AWS partner. The company ensures that customers receive the right expertise and tools for migration, transformation and management of workloads in the cloud.
Infosys has 11 AWS competencies, over 2,000 AWS certifications and more than 300 AWS customer launches.
Industry Partners of the Year
Global Award Winner: Virtusa
North America Award Winner: Quantiphi
The Industry Partners of the Year awards went to Quantiphi in North America and Virtusa globally.
The award recognizes partners with deep domain expertise in a specific industry vertical. Priority consideration was given to partners solving industry-specific pain points or supporting their customers in developing new offerings.
As an AWS Premier Consulting Partner, Virtusa has a strong set of AWS competencies in life sciences, DevOps and migration.
Virtusa signed a strategic collaboration agreement with AWS to provide enterprise customers with transformative and sustainable benefits such as rationalization, technical debt elimination, automation and modernization to reduce costs and increase velocity.
Security Partners of the Year
Global Award Winner: Orca Security
North America Award Winner: HashiCorp
AWS Security Partner of the Year award winners were Orca Security on a global basis and HashiCorp in North America.
The award recognizes partners with the AWS Security competency that have proven customer success in securing every stage of cloud adoption, from initial migration through ongoing day-to-day management.
Orca offers complete cloud security coverage, visibility and compliance for customers’ AWS clouds without the performance impact of agents.
Orca’s SideScanning technology reads customers’ cloud configuration and workloads’ runtime block storage out-of-band to create a complete risk profile of a customer’s AWS cloud estate in minutes. It covers all their AWS workloads, including VMs, containers and serverless, as well as EC2, EKS, ECS and Lambda instances.
HashiCorp and AWS have a long-standing partnership helping customers transform their organizations. HashiCorp’s Terraform Provider on AWS has over 950 resources and over 350 data sources, helping ensure infrastructure and policies are codified, shared, managed and executed within a workflow that is consistent across all of a customer’s AWS or on-premises infrastructure.
Migration Partners of the Year
Global Award Winner: Incredibuild
North America Award Winner: Larsen and Toubro Infotech (LTI)
The 2022 AWS Migration Partners of Year were Incredibuild on a global basis and Larsen and Toubro Infotech (LTI) in North America.
This award recognizes partners with the AWS Migration competency that have demonstrated expertise in customer migrations to the AWS cloud. Partners were judged based on number, value and on-time delivery of migrations.
Incredibuild turbocharges development by allowing customers to seamlessly scale up to the cloud and use unlimited development acceleration potential in AWS. Incredibuild and AWS optimize customers’ development by allowing them to seamlessly scale up to the cloud and use AWS to reduce builds, tests, code analysis, CI pipelines and other task times.
LTI has conducted over 1,000 successful migrations. The company has over 100 AWS customers, holds nine AWS competencies and has over 1,500 AWS certified professionals.
LTI and AWS work closely with enterprises offering a full spectrum of cloud migration services to determine the correct cloud strategy, architecture and ecosystem partners to build optimized solutions and gain the maximum benefits of cloud computing.
Data and Analytics Partners of the Year
Global Award Winner: Virtusa
North America Award Winner: Informatica
Virtusa and Informatica won AWS 2022 Data and Analytics Partners of the Year on a global and North American basis, respectively.
The award recognizes partners with the AWS Data and Analytics competency that have demonstrated expertise in data and analytics. Partners were judged based on the number of competencies, value provided to customer and revenue generated.
AWS Marketplace Partners of the Year
Global Award Winner: Trend Micro
North America Award Winner: Snowflake
The AWS Marketplace Partners of the Year were Trend Micro globally and Snowflake in North America.
The AWS Marketplace is an online software store that allows partners to market and sell their software and services to AWS customers around the world. Customers can find and buy a wide variety of solutions from system integrators, MSPs, resellers, distributors and ISVs as well as joint offerings from AWS’ massive 100,000-plus AWS Partner Network.
The AWS award recognizes its top partners with significant AWS Marketplace transactions.
Trend Micro has been an AWS Advanced Partner since 2012. With over 15 AWS competencies and designations, the company continues to innovate jointly with AWS and AWS Marketplace to deliver security to customers when and where they need it.
On the AWS Marketplace, Snowflake delivers the Data Cloud—a global network where thousands of organizations mobilize data with near-unlimited scale, concurrency and performance. Inside the Data Cloud, organizations unite their siloed data, easily discover and securely share governed data, and execute diverse analytic workloads. Snowflake has achieved AWS competencies in data analytics, machine learning and retail.
Collaboration Partners of the Year
Global Award Winner: Larsen and Toubro Infotech (LTI)
North America Award Winner: Infosys
The AWS Collaboration Partners of the Year were LTI on a global basis and Infosys in North America.
The award recognizes partners that collaborate with other AWS partners to work on solving the same customer challenge with their skills and ability to deliver valuable customer solutions based on services and technology offered across multiple AWS partners.
Social Impact Partners of the Year
Global Award Winner: DNX Solutions
North America Award Winner: Mission Cloud Services
The AWS Social Impact Partners of the Year were DNX Solutions on a global basis and Mission Cloud Services in North America.
The social impact award recognizes AWS partners committed to giving back to society through their people, resources and technology.
DNX is a cloud-native focused company and an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner that offers an online community open to members anywhere in the world that are interested in AWS and cloud computing. DNX provides experienced cloud and data engineering consultants to accelerate and transform customers’ cloud journey whether they are adopting, evolving, operating cloud solutions or modernizing applications in a simple and secure way.
Mission is an AWS Premier Consulting Partner and managed cloud service provider with deep expertise in launching and leveraging the power of the cloud. The company offers a team of cloud operations professionals and solutions architects that delivers a suite of services to help businesses architect, migrate, manage and optimize their AWS cloud environments.
Rising Star Partner of the Year (Systems Integrator)
North America Award Winner: Triumph Technology Solutions
Triumph Technology Solutions won the 2022 AWS Rising Star Partner of the Year award for systems integrators in North America. There was no global award winner for this category.
Triumph Technology Solutions was recognized for its significant year-over-year growth in its systems integrator business on AWS.
Triumph Technology Solutions is an AWS cloud-native services provider focused on helping customers leverage the capabilities of the cloud to achieve operational excellence, security, reliability, performance and cost optimization. The company focuses on cloud migrations, containers, serverless, data and analytics, AI and high-performance compute.
The company recently achieved the AWS Service Delivery designation for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), recognizing that the company has had success in helping customers architect, deploy and operate containerized workloads on top of Amazon Kubernetes.
Federal Government Partner of the Year
North America Award Winner: Databricks
Databricks won the North America 2022 AWS Federal Government Partner of the Year award. There was no global winner for the category.
The award recognizes partners with the AWS Government competency that have delivered innovative mission-based wins for the federal government.
Databricks runs natively on AWS, supports GovCloud, and has an Authority to Operate (ATO) in the AWS Commercial Cloud Service (C2S), Amazon’s region supporting the U.S. intelligence community.
Databricks on AWS allows federal governments to store and manage all their data on a simple, open lakehouse platform that combines the best of data warehouses and data lakes to unify all analytics and AI workloads. Databricks runs on AWS and integrates with all of the major services such as S3, EC2, Redshift and more.
Sustainability Partner of the Year
North America Award Winner: TensorIoT
TensorIoT was awarded the 2022 AWS Sustainability Partner of the Year award in North America. There was no global award winner in this category.
The award recognizes partners committed to achieving sustainability goals. Solutions may cover, but are not limited to, capabilities in AI/ML, IoT, data analytics and computing to reach a customer’s sustainability goals.
TensorIoT and AWS look to improve operational efficiency and sustainability via integrated equipment and monitoring.
TensorIoT helps businesses achieve their sustainability goals through its specialized solutions, leveraging its sustainable analytic approach and expertise in carbon footprint analysis to deliver carbon reductions, water use reductions, and energy savings through smart building solutions.