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Announcing the Regional 2025 AWS Partners of the Year for Europe, Middle East, and Africa

We’re excited to announce the regional 2025 AWS Partners of the Year from Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). This year’s award winners have demonstrated exceptional innovation and commitment to customer success. Working side by side with AWS Partners has yielded remarkable results, and we’re excited to build upon these successes as we strengthen our partnerships throughout 2026.

Announcing the 2025 Geo and Global AWS Partners of the Year

Each year, we honor members of the AWS Partner Network (APN) from around the globe that play key roles in helping customers drive innovation and build solutions on AWS. Announced during a Partner Awards Gala at AWS re:Invent, the 2025 Geo and Global AWS Partner Awards recognize a wide range of partners whose business models have embraced specialization, innovation, and cooperation over the past year.

New Agentic AI Categories for AWS AI Competency Partners

We’re announcing three new Agentic AI categories in the AWS AI Competency, helping customers find validated Partners who can implement production-ready autonomous systems. With IDC projecting 65% of organizations will fully deploy agentic AI by 2027, this expansion represents our largest Specialization launch to date with 60 Launch Partners ready to help customers move beyond experimentation to drive real business value. The launch also includes an automated validation process that cuts application time by up to 70%.

Celebrating Innovation: Announcing the 2025 Amazon Nova Partner Demo Competition Winners

At the 2025 Amazon Nova Partner Demo Competition, AWS Partners showcased innovative solutions using Amazon Nova foundation models to address customer challenges across industries. The competition highlighted Partners’ focus on Healthcare & Life Sciences and Financial Services sectors, leveraging Nova’s advanced AI capabilities.

Modernize Natural and Adabas Workloads on AWS with IBM ModernSystems accelerator

Many enterprises still rely on the Adabas database and Natural programming language for critical workloads, facing rising license costs and a shrinking talent pool. To reduce reliance on these aging technologies and enable digital transformation, companies are modernizing to AWS with IBM ModernSystems accelerator. The division offers automated refactoring of Natural code to Java/C# and replatforming to execute Natural on Windows, along with migrating Adabas databases to modern relational databases.

Transforming the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) with Generative AI

Transforming the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) with Generative AI

Discover how IBM and AWS are revolutionizing software development with their new Generative AI-powered SDLC solution. By integrating Amazon Bedrock’s capabilities, organizations can achieve up to 30% faster development time, 25% improved code quality, and 60% reduction in analysis phase time. Available now on AWS Marketplace, this solution brings standardization and efficiency to every stage of the software development lifecycle.

Meet Our New AWS Ambassadors from Q4 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 […]

Meet Sovereignty and Compliance Requirements with AWS Digital Sovereignty Competency Partners

In today’s digital landscape, maintaining control over digital assets, or digital sovereignty, has become increasingly crucial, particularly for public sector organizations and regulated industries. We’re excited to announce the AWS Digital Sovereignty Competency—an AWS Specialization that connects customers with trusted Partners to help them leverage the benefits of the cloud, while meeting compliance and regulatory requirements.

New AI Security Category for AWS Security Competency Partners

AI adoption is rapidly transforming application development while introducing new security risks that demand specialized expertise in areas like data privacy, model integrity, system availability, abuse prevention, and threat detection. To address this, we’re excited to introduce a new AI security category for AWS Security Competency Partners, designed to help customers easily identify Partners with deep experience in securing AI environments and defending workloads against advanced threats and attacks.

2025 EMEA AWS Partner of the Year 3

Announcing the Regional 2024 AWS Partners of the Year for Europe, Middle East, and Africa

We’re excited to announce the regional 2024 AWS Partners of the Year from Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). This year’s award winners have demonstrated exceptional innovation and commitment to customer success. Working side by side with AWS Partners have yielded remarkable results, and we’re excited to build upon these successes as we strengthen our partnerships throughout 2025.