Amazon Web Services names its favourite partners

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has just named its favourite partners for the year.

The awards are to recognise members of the AWS Partner Network (APN) who are leaders in the channel and whom AWS thinks play a key role in helping customers to drive innovation and build solutions on the AWS Cloud.

The winners this year include:

APN Consulting Partner of the Year: Accenture
The Accenture Amazon Web Services Business Group in the UK and Ireland has enabled enterprises to accelerate their pace of digital innovation and realise incremental business value from cloud adoption and transformation.

APN Social Impact Partner of the Year: AND Digital
On a mission to close the world’s skills gap, AND Digital accelerates the digital capabilities of ambitious organisations, blending tech craft skills and product expertise with an award-winning approach to talent development.

APN Microsoft Workloads Partner of the Year: Bytes
Bytes has excelled within the Microsoft workloads competency and programmes and has helped several customers to migrate Windows Server and SQL workloads into AWS.

APN Industry Innovation Partner of the Year: Deloitte
The company has developed comprehensive solutions such as Smart Factory, which enables manufacturers to augment human intelligence and machine intelligence to connect and collect data for improved performance, and MyPath™ to Work, which empowers organisations to manage new workplace health risks presented by COVID-19.

APN Machine Learning Partner of the Year: Inawisdom
Inawisdom’s ML practice enables customers to outperform the market by discovering value within their data through implementing advanced analytics, AI and ML techniques.

APN Migration Partner of the Year: Rackspace Technology
Rackspace Technology has helped businesses migrate to AWS with a tried and tested cloud migration methodology that maximises, optimises and successfully migrates significant workloads to the cloud.

APN Rising Star Partner of the Year: Rebura LTD
Rebura has helped organisations to drive their business forward through migration, and achieve improvements in productivity, business agility, and operational resilience.

APN Public Sector Partner of the Year: Softcat plc
Softcat has continued to develop its AWS skills during this period to become both a well-architected and Storage competency partner. Softcat has provided a wide range of general and specialist IT solutions and services to public sector organisations through a number of government-approved frameworks.

AWS VP and General Manager, UK & Ireland Darren Hardman said: “The APN Partner Awards recognise and celebrate partners in the UK and Ireland who are accelerating their capability and business models to help customers drive innovation using the AWS Cloud. This year’s award winners have raised the bar for excellence and demonstrated customer obsession in how they have supported businesses, created and built solutions, and managed the demands of the COVID-19 pandemic.”