OAKLAND, CA - May 28, 2026 - KPI Partners, a specialized cloud, data, and enterprise AI consultancy, today announced it has officially achieved AWS Advanced Tier Partner status within the Amazon Web Services Partner Network (APN). The designation recognizes the company's proven customer success, AWS-certified technical professionals, validated delivery capabilities, and sustained investment in cloud innovation - and marks a significant milestone in KPI Partners' strategic relationship with AWS.
The AWS Advanced Tier is awarded to partners who have demonstrated real-world cloud deployment experience, maintained a roster of AWS-certified engineers, and established a track record of measurable customer outcomes across AWS-hosted workloads. Achieving Advanced Tier status places KPI Partners in an elite category within the APN, directly ahead of the program's foundational tier and one tier below the Premier designation.
"This milestone is the direct result of the certifications, customer wins, and solution depth that our sales, engineering, alliances, and delivery teams have built together over the past year," said Kusal Swarnakar, CEO of KPI Partners. "Advanced Tier is not the destination - it is the platform. Premier is the next horizon, and we are building every day toward it."
"Achieving Advanced Tier fundamentally elevates how we partner with enterprise buyers and AWS field teams. It unlocks co-sell motions, MAP funding, and joint go-to-market opportunities that directly accelerate time-to-value for our customers. This is the strategic foundation we've been building toward - validating our cloud data expertise and putting us in exactly the right position to pursue specialized AWS competencies and Premier Tier next."
— Joe Malesich, VP of Alliances, KPI Partners
For organizations already working with KPI Partners, AWS Advanced Tier status delivers concrete, customer-facing advantages that go well beyond a badge or tier designation.
Co-sell engagement means KPI Partners can now work in active, coordinated partnership with AWS account teams on joint customer engagements - accelerating deal cycles, aligning solution architecture earlier in the process, and ensuring customers have both their consulting partner and their cloud provider moving in the same direction from day one.
Access to MAP funding - the AWS Migration Acceleration Program - means eligible customers can receive direct AWS financial investment toward their cloud migration projects, materially reducing the cost and risk of moving workloads, data platforms, and applications to AWS. Similarly, POC funding enables customers to validate new AWS-native architectures and AI capabilities through AWS-co-funded proof-of-concept engagements before committing to full-scale deployment.
These advantages are particularly impactful across KPI Partners' core practice areas: data modernization, analytics and business intelligence on Amazon Redshift and QuickSight, and enterprise AI built on Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker.
Advanced Tier status also brings KPI Partners into closer proximity with AWS product and engineering teams - translating into earlier visibility into new AWS service capabilities and ensuring customers benefit from the most current AWS-native solutions as their cloud, data, and AI programs scale.
This tier further reinforces KPI Partners' delivery of cloud environments architected for performance, cost efficiency, and enterprise-grade security - reducing infrastructure sprawl, strengthening governance posture, and lowering total cost of ownership across AWS-hosted workloads.
"AWS Advanced Tier is a reflection of what our engineering and delivery teams have been doing in the field - solving real enterprise problems on AWS at scale. For our customers, this means sharper solution architecture, faster access to AWS co-investment, and a partner that AWS itself has validated. We're not slowing down — Premier is squarely in our sights."
— Mayank Mishra, VP of Delivery & Solutions and Data Engineering Leader for AWS, KPI Partners
For organizations evaluating KPI Partners as a consulting or systems integration partner, AWS Advanced Tier status serves as an AWS-vetted proof point. The designation confirms that KPI Partners has satisfied AWS requirements for certified technical staff, documented customer references, validated delivery processes, and demonstrated AWS workload experience - criteria designed to give enterprise buyers confidence in partner selection decisions. Advanced Tier partners appear with elevated visibility in the AWS Partner Solutions Finder, the primary directory used by enterprise procurement teams and AWS account managers to identify qualified implementation partners.
KPI Partners is a global strategic partner helping enterprises redefine what's possible with Enterprise AI, Data, and Analytics. Founded in 2006, KPI Partners brings 20 years of experience and a team of 600+ consultants serving 300+ customers across Retail & CPG, Manufacturing, Financial Services, Life Sciences & Healthcare, High-Tech, Energy & Utilities, and Higher Education.
KPI Partners' capabilities span four core areas: Enterprise AI (Agentic AI, GenAI, and Data Science & ML), Data & BI Services (Data Engineering and Business Intelligence), Platform Modernization (Data Platform Migration, BI Platform Migration, and Cloud FinOps & Governance), and Enterprise Software (Custom App Development and ERP Consulting).
Through its proprietary migration accelerators for BI modernization, data platform migration, pre-built analytics for enterprise ERP systems, and GenAI, KPI Partners helps enterprises modernize faster, smarter, and with less risk.
The company maintains strategic partnerships with Microsoft, Databricks, Snowflake, AWS, Google Cloud, and Oracle, and is ISO 27001:2022 certified and Great Place to Work® certified for six consecutive years.
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