Meet Our New AWS Ambassadors from Q2 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 (Australia and New Zealand)

• Alan Blockley (Itoc) — Navigating the AI Landscape – Choosing the Right Tools for Your Needs
• Ariharan Ramanathan (Spark Business Group) — Monitoring Amazon Lambda Functions
• Chamila de Alwis (Spark Business Group) — Hit the ground Running with FinOps in AWS
• Denys Tyshetskyy (CyberCX) — Serverless Data Platform in AWS – Introducing Data Platform
• Denys Tyshetskyy (CyberCX) — Serverless Data Platform in AWS – Data Ingestion aka Lake hydration
• Dinesh Sharma (Datacom) — Exploring Public Service Hosting Options on EKS
• Dinesh Sharma (Datacom) — Scaling Deployments with AWS Lambda
• Ekant Mate (Blazeclan Technologies) — How to Suppress Particular Findings in AWS Security Hub Using Terraform?
• Freddy Ho (CyberCX) — Travelling overseas with a VPN on AWS on the fly
• Geoff Loh (CyberCX) — Automated Disaster Recovery using Cloudwatch Alarms
• Greg Luxford (Cevo) — The AWS (Amazon Web Services) Landing Zone Accelerator
• Greg Luxford (Cevo) — VMware Cloud on AWS (Amazon Web Services) and the 7 Rs of Migration
• James Bromberger (Akkodis) — AWS Sydney Summit 2024
• James Bromberger (Akkodis) — AWS Migration Considerations Series: Migration Methodologies
• Jason Wood (Telstra) — Cross-account CloudFormation via CodePipeline
• Jem Richards (Redbear IT) — re:Inforce 2024 – themes and announcments
• Matthew Gillard (Cevo) — AWS Sydney Summit Recap
• Nivlesh Chandra (Cognizant) — Unlock Seamless Access to Your Amazon EC2 Instances Anywhere, Anytime
• Stefan Evans (CyberCX) — Using Amazon Bedrock to generate ingredients for a Shopping List application
• Steve Kinsman (Akkodis) — Changing the root email address of an AWS Account managed by Landing Zone Accelerator

ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations)

• Akesh Patil (Blazeclan Technologies) — Architecting Secure Network Topology for a Multi-Entity Organization
• Nguyen Tien Hai (Megazone Cloud) — Mitigating disruption during Amazon EKS cluster upgrade with blue/green deployment
• Raphael Justin Jambalos (Ecloudvalley) — Deploy Web App to EC2 / Two-Tier VPC Architecture

CHINA

• Gary Guo (Accenture) — Experimenting with Vincentian graphs using Amazon Bedrock’s API
• Gary Guo (Accenture) — Serverless experiment – Use Lambda+API Gateway to build back-end applications
• Gary Guo (Accenture) — Serverless experiment – Deploy application front-end using Amplify
• Song Tan (TCS) — AWS Lambda reserved concurrency
• Song Tan (TCS) — AWS Lambda provisioned concurrency
• Wen Che Chung (CKmates) — Use AWS’s three major security functions to create a zero-trust cloud architecture
• Wen Che Chung (CKmates) — How to deal with VMware’s change to subscription system? “Moving to the cloud” is a solution for enterprises
• Yuezu Wang (Marshotspot) — Technology Sharing | Detailed explanation of Amazon EKS cluster permission management
• Yuezu Wang (Marshotspot) — Technology Sharing | How to achieve efficient audit log management in Amazon RDS and Aurora
• Zheng Guo (VAP-VSTECS) — SIOS NFS Cluster installation and configuration method on AWS

**EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) **

• Aritra Nag (Playground Tech) — Enabling GitOps with ArgoCD, Kubernetes, and AWS EKS** **
• David Krohn (globaldatanet) — AWS IAM Identity Center Permission Management at Scale
• Emanuel Russo (NTT Data EMEAL) — Enhancing existing APIs with Generative AI: A Low-Code approach with Bedrock and AWS AppSync
• Gernot Glawe (tecRacer) — RAG AI-LLM Databases on AWS: do not pay for oversized, go Serverless instead
• Hendrik Hagen (tecRacer) — Build a scalable IDS and IPS solution using Suricata and AWS Gateway Load Balancer
• Javier Carrera (DoiT International) — Access an S3 Bucket using SFTP and password-based authentication
• Jimmy Dahlqvist (Sigma Technology) — Events vs streaming data in AWS
• Jimmy Dahlqvist (Sigma Technology) — Navigating through failures, build resilient serverless systems
• Jimmy Dahlqvist (Sigma Technology) — Protect API Gateway with Amazon Verified Permissions
• Krzysztof Kąkol (Xebia) — Autonomous Agents using LLMs
• Lahav Savir (AllCloud) — Navigating the Shift in VMware Licensing and Embracing the AWS Cloud
• Matteo Depascale (Reply) — Large Language Model Operations (LLMops) on AWS
• Maurice Borgmeier (tecRacer) — Adding Cognito Authentication to our Serverless Dash App
• Maurice Borgmeier (tecRacer) — Build a Serverless S3 Explorer with Dash
• Maurice Borgmeier (tecRacer) — Introduction to SSO with the IAM Identity Center and Entra ID
• Miguel Angel Muñoz Sanchez (Paradigma Digital) — Amazon Aurora, can we set up an IaaSalternative?
• Miguel Angel Muñoz Sanchez (Paradigma Digital) — AWS is better than you
• Monica Colangelo (NTT Data EMEAL) — https://letsmake.cloud/bedrock-studio-first-look
• Niklas Westerstråhle (Knowit) — A first look at the brand new Amazon Bedrock Studio
• Oguzhan Selcuk Hiziroglu (Yonetim.Academy) — Efficiently Managing EC2 Instances: Automating Start and Stop Jobs with Amazon EventBridge
• Oleksii Bebych (Automat-IT) — Building a Landing zone with AWS Control Tower
• Petri Kallberg (Nordcloud) — Incognito Authentication
• Roman Tsypuk (Capgemini) — Integrating your own cli tool into aws cli
• Tolgahan Demirbaş (Best Cloud For Me) — Managing Storage with Amazon EBS CSI Driver on Amazon EKS

INDIA

• Alok Saraswat (Infosys) — Migration to Amazon FSx for Windows File Server using Data Sync & Terraform
• Ankur Chawla (Rackspace) — Immutable Architectures on AWS: Revolutionizing Deployment Strategies
• Ankur Chawla (Rackspace) — https://medium.com/@ankur_chawla/leveraging-amazon-bedrock-for-advanced-generative-ai-applications-in-financial-services-77a713d03914
• Anoop Prasad (Umbrella Infocare) — Leveraging Amazon Bedrock for Advanced Generative AI Applications in Financial Services
• Anoop Prasad (Umbrella Infocare) — Unlocking Scalable Serverless Storage: Using Amazon FSx for Shared Storage with Lambda Functions
• Ashish Kasaudhan (PwC) — Harnessing Infrastructure as Code (IaC Generator) with AWS CloudFormation
• Bharthvajan G (PwC) — Building Movie Recommendation System with AWS ML Services
• Bharthvajan G (PwC) — Semantic Search by Amazon OpenSearch Serverless & Amazon Bedrock
• Bhupali Tambekar (Comprinno) — Optimizing AWS EKS COSTS #1 Best Practices and Strategies in 2024
• Bhupali Tambekar (Comprinno) — Enhancing High Availability with Chaos Engineering
• Chinmay Mandal (PwC) — Amazon S3 File Share Storage Gateway with VPC endpoint and EC2 Instance
• Chinmay Mandal (PwC) — Migration of data from On-Premise NFS file share to AWS S3 using AWS DataSync
• Chinmay Mandal (PwC) — Host a static content website using S3 and CloudFront
• Daksh Jat (PwC) — Access Amazon EC2 Instances Remotely using Instance Connect without Public IP
• Gargee Bhatnagar (Capgemini) — Contours on MYSQL Aurora Database with Blue/Green Deployment and Switch Over
• Gargee Bhatnagar (Capgemini) — Deep Dive on Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow Using CloudFormation
• Gargee Bhatnagar (Capgemini) — Deep Dive on MYSQL Aurora Database with Global Database Region Availability
• Govind Kumar (Axcess.io) — Amazon Route 53 Profiles – A Deeper look into Centralized DNS Configuration and Governance Solution
• Harish KM (QloudX) — Auto-Approve Terraform Apply If Planned Changes Match Expected Changes
• Harish KM (QloudX) — Basic Kubernetes Resource Change Tracking using Metadata Managed Fields
• Harish KM (QloudX) — Working with Cross-Account AWS IAM Roles for EKS Service Accounts (IRSA)
• Meenakshi Muralidharan (LTIMindtree) — Accelerating the Modern Manufacturing Transformation with LTIMindtree’s Digital Command Center on AWS
• Meenakshi Muralidharan (LTIMindtree) — Air-Travel search engine Implementation in AWS
• Meenakshi Muralidharan (LTIMindtree) — Comparison between Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Vs Amazon EMR
• Piyush Jalan (Intuitive Technology Partners) — Configure Ansible for Windows and Linux Instances on AWS
• Piyush Jalan (Intuitive Technology Partners) — Enhanced resiliency: Backup restore testing plan in action
• Piyush Jalan (Intuitive Technology Partners) — Enhancing Security and Streamlining User Management for AWS Transfer Server
• Rahul Sharma (SourceFuse) — Everything You Need Know About Lambda Cold Start!
• Rahul Sharma (SourceFuse) — How To Select The Right Database?
• Rahul Sharma (SourceFuse) — This Is Why Your AWS AZ Is Not Same as Mine!
• Rajas Walavalkar (Quantiphi) — Leveraging Amazon Athena with Apache Spark Engine to Analyze Data and deriving Insights
• Rajas Walavalkar (Quantiphi) — Amazon Cognito user authorization using IAM roles and accessing AWS services using temporary credentials
• Rajas Walavalkar (Quantiphi) — Exploring AWS Data Exchange for sharing datasets across AWS accounts
• Rasanpreet Singh (Infosys) — Deploy AWS Autoscaling with Launch Templates using Terraform
• Sanchit Jain (Quantiphi) — Achieving Data Governance on AWS
• Sanchit Jain (Quantiphi) — Amazon Bedrock Agent – Overview
• Sanchit Jain (Quantiphi) — Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases – Overview
• Sapna Mandhare (Capgemini) — Amazon RDS Proxy — Manage and reuse connections
• Satish Srinivasan (Infosys) — AWS Bedrock Anthropic Claude 3 Multi Modal Model Features
• Satish Srinivasan (Infosys) — AWS Bedrock Guardrails with Anthropic Claude Sonnet Model
• Satyajit Samantaray (Searce) — Secure Remote Connections to AWS Resources using Pritunl
• Sourabh Chordiya (Wipro) — SAP BTP, RISE and AWS network patterns
• Umashankar Nedunchezhian (1CloudHub) — Streamlining Cost Management on Amazon EKS with Kubecost Optimization
• Umashankar Nedunchezhian (1CloudHub) — Optimizing EKS Resource Management with Goldilocks

JAPAN

• Akira Shibata (Fenrir) — Recommendation for learning using AWS re:Post
• Aya Shimada (NHN Techorus) — Data migration procedure due to Amazon WorkDocs service termination
• Hideto Haraguchi (Seeds) — Story about Amazon EFS burst credits being exhausted due to PHP OPcache
• Hiroaki Aga (Megazone Cloud) — How to build an SFTP environment using Transfer Family and CloudFormation
• Hiroyuki Anzai (Fujisoft) — New code development using AI Amazon Q + Amazon CodeWhisperer
• Katsuhiro Fujimaki (Hitachi Systems) — Update the runtime of AWS Lambda functions all at once
• Kazuaki Morita (Fujisoft) — Prepare Amazon OpenSearch Service as a knowledge base for RAG
• Kazuaki Morita (Fujisoft) — Cohere Command R and Command R+ are now available on Amazon Bedrock! RAG is amazing!
• Kazuaki Morita (Fujisoft) — Build Dify on EC2 and call Bedrock with IAM role
• Kazushi Sonoda (CTC) — [For Beginners] What’s so good about CICD? Getting started with CICD on AWS
• Kiminori Yokoi (TIS) — Explore the potential of Agents for Amazon Bedrock’s “Return of Control” feature
• Kohei Otani (Forgevision) — [AWS re:Inforce] – AWS Identity and Access Management now supports passkeys as a second authentication factor
• Kohei Otani (Forgevision) — RDS event subscriptions can be filtered and skipped with EventBridge
• Masanori Mano (NTT Data) — Deep dive into EKS networking
• Masanori Yamaguchi (ForgeVision) — Learn how to play AWS BuilderCards while having fun, and the thoughts behind the Japanese translation
• Masayuki Goto (Hitachi Systems) — Connection methods and key points for private communication between multiple VPCs
• Mayumi Yamazaki (IBM) — I read “Optimizing AWS Backup costs” and looked into backup in more detail.
• Mayumi Yamazaki (IBM) — About using Amazon S3 data deletion protection
• Ryota Yamamoto (Classmethod) — [Update] Amazon EKS now natively supports Auto Scaling for CoreDNS Pods
• Ryota Yamamoto (Classmethod) — [Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP] Configure Access-based Enumeration (ABE) to prevent unauthorized users from viewing files and folders
• Ryota Yamamoto (Classmethod) — [Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP] I thought about how to implement a system that periodically scans data in an environment that uses FabricPool.
• Shigeyoshi Takahashi (CTC) — I investigated the performance of Amazon S3 Express One Zone
• Shogo Usuki (Kyndryl) — Using AWS Control Tower Account Factory with AWS CLI
• Shuichi Takahashi (iret) — Our Approach to AWS Well-Architected Best Practices
• Shuichi Takahashi (iret) — Easily create a generative AI Slackbot that references internal information with Amazon Bedrock
• Takafumi Miki (Hitachi) — 3,000 miles searching for Red Hat Update Infrastructure (RHUI), is it inside or outside AWS?
• Takahito Iwasa (Classmethod) — I used Wireshark to check the TLS version negotiation between the client and ALB.
• Takahito Iwasa (Classmethod) — [GA] AWS Amplify Gen 2 has reached GA, so I tried using a custom domain etc.
• Takahito Iwasa (Classmethod) — I have organized the TLS support status of AWS services for web applications (as of April 2024)
• Yasuyuki Sato (Deloitte Tohmatsu) — Easily manage feature flags! Deploying feature flags leveraging CDK L2 constructs in AWS AppConfig
• Yasuyuki Sato (Deloitte Tohmatsu) — How to leverage AppConfig’s PrivateLink to achieve secure application configuration
• Yoshihiro Hotta (NEC) — Taking AWS Snowball seriously #Why use Snowball?
• Yuji Hirono (SCSK) — AWS AppSync Resolver (VTL) Writing Sample No. 6 – Amazon DynamoDB Advanced Edition Separate processing based on flags in arguments
• Yuji Hirono (SCSK) — AWS AppSync resolver (VTL) writing sample No. 7 – Amazon DynamoDB Advanced Edition Execute two queries in series
• Yuji Hirono (SCSK) — AWS AppSync Resolver (VTL) Writing Sample No.8 – Amazon DynamoDB Advanced Edition Execute two queries atomically
• Yuki Tsumita (Accenture) — Getting started with HTTP/3 with Amazon Linux 2023 and Nginx
• Yukiko Kumagai (BTC) — Tips for those monitoring security with AWS CloudTrail and metric filters
• Yusuke Shimizu (NRI Netcom) — Pull request authority delegation and quality control on AWS using the SECI model

KOREA

• ChiSong Yu (LG CNS) — Is ElastiCache Serverless suitable for my system?
• ChiSong Yu (LG CNS) — Implementing short cycle batches using Lambda
• Dongin Kwon (LG CNS) — Check out the latest IT news at LG CNS technology blog DX Lounge!
• Heeseok Jeong (LG CNS) — Centralized configuration of AWS Network Firewall, based on multiple VPC connections through Transit Gateway
• Jihun Lim (GS Neotek) — Create a Multi-Tool Agent with Claude 3 and LangChain
• Junseung Choi (SK Telecom) — How to Optimize the Cost of Compute
• Minhyeok Cha (SmileShark) — I will explain it as simply as possible. Streaming Event Broker on AWS
• Minhyeok Cha (SmileShark) — Just by looking at this, you are also an AWS MSK Standard Owner!
• SeonBo Shim (Bespin Global) — Generating Secure CloudFront URLs with a AWS Lambda Function
• SoJeong Baek (Megazone Cloud) — Building RAG Pattern Using Bedrock, LangChain and MongoDB Atlas

LATAM (Latin America)

• Alejandro Velez (Sophos Solutions) — DevSecOps with AWS- IaC at scale
• Carlos Alberto Marangon (Nextios) — Serverless Applications with Step Functions
• Carlos Alberto Marangon (Nextios) — AWS GenAI and the use of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
• Carlos Alberto Marangon (Nextios) — How GenAI can increase productivity in customer service analysis – Call Center
• Claudio Acquaviva (Kong) — Multi Amazon VPC Kong Konnect Data Plane 3.7 deployment with EKS 1.30 and AWS Transit Gateway
• Claudio Acquaviva (Kong) — Kong Konnect Data Plane 3.7 Deployment and Plugin Configuration with EKS 1.30 Pod Identity and AWS Secrets Manager
• Fabricio Mariani (Blue Sentry Cloud) — Comparing Authentication Options for External Access to Amazon S3
• Leticia Massae Uchida (GFT) — Preparing for the AWS Solutions Architect – Professional Certification Exam
• Leticia Massae Uchida (GFT) — Preparing for the AWS Data Engineer — Associate certification exam

NAMER (North America)

• Brian Tarbox (Caylent) — Optimizing AWS Data Pipelines for Compliance in Digital Advertising
• Collin Smith (Accolite Digital) — Creating a Generative AI Bedrock Lambda using Claude 3 Opus with CDK
• Collin Smith (Accolite Digital) — Creating a Private MySQL instance with a Bastion Host using CDK & SSM
• Collin Smith (Accolite Digital) — Creating a Spring Boot Java 21 application with a Private MySQL RDS
• Jennifer Bergstrom (Parsons) — Bedrock(ing) the Kasbah
• Jeremy Ritchie (Caylent) — Serverless Upgrade Path in AWS – Part 1
• Jeremy Ritchie (Caylent) — Serverless Upgrade Path in AWS – Part 2
• Mahmood Rahimi (Blue Sentry Cloud) — AWS EKS Identity is Not Mapped Error
• Mahmood Rahimi (Blue Sentry Cloud) — GitHub Action Runners on AWS EKS
• Mahmood Rahimi (Blue Sentry Cloud) — Slack AI Bot with AWS Bedrock Part 2
• Raghavan Madabusi (Info Services) — Bridging the Gap: GraphQL Schemas for Graph Data Modeling in AWS Neptune
• Satrajit Basu (TCG Digital Solutions) — Master the Art of Querying Data on Amazon S3
• Thomas Ricardo (Oxford Global Resources) — Discussing TCO in 2024
• Todd Bernson (Blue Sentry Cloud) — Automating API Information Storage with AWS – Technical Deep Dive into Automated API Information Storage System
• Todd Bernson (Blue Sentry Cloud) — AWS Lake Formation: Architectural Deep Dive
• Todd Bernson (Blue Sentry Cloud) — AWS Lake Formation: Troubleshooting and Optimization
• Vivek Velso (Cognizant) — Automating ECR Vulnerability Reports with Amazon EventBridge : New AWS SDK Integration Feature of AWS Step Functions with DynamoDB
• Vivek Velso (Cognizant) — Automating ECR Vulnerability Reports with Amazon EventBridge : Fetching Detailed Vulnerability Information
• Vivek Velso (Cognizant) — Automating KMS Key Rotation Using AWS CDK, EventBridge, and Lambda Function

UKIR (United Kingdom and Ireland)

• Ahmed Zamzam (Confluent) — Introducing Confluent Cloud OpenSearch Sink Connector
• Ahmed Zamzam (Confluent) — Analyzing AWS Audit Logs in Real Time Using Confluent Cloud and Amazon EventBridge
• Alex Kearns (Ubertas Consulting) — Well-Architected: Banishing the Curse of ClickOps
• Anjani Phuyal (Genese Solution) — Automate resources with CloudFormation
• Anjani Phuyal (Genese Solution) — Encrypt and Manage the Lifecycle of your Versioned Objects in s3
• Anjani Phuyal (Genese Solution) — Host Containerized applications without the need to provision and manage Servers
• Colin Barker (Expert Thinking) — Zero Trust Network Router on AWS
• Deniz Parmaksız (Insider) — Simplifying Terraform Plan Reviews with Generative AI
• Dirk Michel (MYCOM OSI) — On AWS CDK and Agents for Amazon Bedrock
• Dirk Michel (MYCOM OSI) — On AWS CDK and Amazon Bedrock Knowledge bases
• Dorian Sezen (kloia) — AI Assistant for Enterprise
• Jason Oliver (Nasstar) — Unveiling the Future: Quantum Computing & Amazon Braket
• Jon Topper (The Scale Factory) — Wat is Generative AI?
• Mark Ross (Eviden) — Maximising consumption of AWS credits

Welcome to our latest AWS Ambassadors

We are excited to introduce our newest AWS Ambassadors from Q2 2024!

ANZ

Binqi Zhang (PwC)
Sagar Donthineni (Deloitte)
Travis Kane (Splunk)

EMEA

Patrick Zink (Public Cloud Group)

INDIA

Bhuvaneswari Subramani (Intuitive Cloud)

JAPAN

Takuro Sasaki (NRI Netcom)
Akito Kidani (Works Human Intelligence)
FeelHwan Park (NHN Techorus)
Hayato Kosugi (Saison Technology)
Hayato Tan (NRI Netcom)
Hikaru Kawagoe (Simplex)
Masanori Mano (NTT Data)
Ryuta Kubota (NEC)
Shigeki Nara (Kyndryl)
Shota Shiratori (NTT East)
Shotaro Saito (Deloitte Tohmatsu)
Taihei Matsuo (Forgevision)
Tomoko Sakamoto (Serverworks)
Yasuyuki Sato (Deloitte Tohmatsu)
Yoshimi Maehara(Nomura Research Institute)
Yosuke Ojima (Simplex)
Hidenori Miyoshi (Hitachi Solutions)
Fumiaki Kato (Works Human Intelligence)
Hiroshi Hayakawa (Hitachi)
Hiroshi Nidegawa (TIS)
Kanako Kodera (IDS)
Kazuya Asawa (Accenture)
Kohei Gamo(Nomura Research Institute)
Kota Sasaki (NEC)
Masaru Ogura (Serverworks)
Junki Tamae (iret)
Tsuyoshi Otsuki (Fujisoft)
Yohei Watanabe (NTT TechnoCross)
Yutaka Kashiwabara (NTT Data)
Keisuke Matsuda (iret)

KOREA

Sang Hyun Jo (Samsung SDS)

NAMER

Subir Grewal (Ness Digital Engineering)
Noor Alsabahi (Blue Sentry Cloud)

UKIR

Colin Barker (Expert Thinking)
Matt Lewis (IBM)

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 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!