Day: 19 December 2022

I had previously posted about AWS Consulting Services Partners and Certifications in July 2022. Its been six months, so I decided to run the numbers again.

This time, there were 945 partners in the data set, up from 882 in July by 62 new organisations or a 7.1% increase.

What was clear is that much of this growth is at the lower levels but we can also see some growth in the larger buckets of certs, with two exceptions.

The 100-200 category saw a drop in the number of partners in this space, but only by 5 organisations. Similarly, the 200-300 space remained stable at 43 organisations, but I know of several businesses that have migrated from the 200+ to 300+ category. so others have moved into this grouping from the lower levels.

	1+	20+	50+	100+	200+	300+	400+	500+	1000+	2000+
Dec 2022	276	262	158	107	43	26	14	25	15	19
Jul 2022	244	252	148	112	43	25	8	20	12	18

Is at the 400-500 grouping that an increase of 75% has been seen, from 8 organisations to 14.

Furthermore, raw data shows that there are 9 organisations who would fit in a 5000+ certification grouping – who combined would have 117,317 AWS certifications.

The largest? 36,098 certifications goes to Accenture, followed by 14,740 at IBM, and Deloitte on 14,605. Deloitte would be #2 if they grouped Deloitte Shanghai and Deloitte Tohmatsu together. Similarly, NTT is in the partner data as 5 separate organisations.

Cert Count	Consulting Services Company Name
36098	Accenture
14750	IBM
14605	Delitte
12790	Cognizant
10994	Capgemini
9673	Tata Consutling
6517	Kyndryl
6423	Infosys
5467	Wipro
4527	EPAM

IPv6 has been something I have long championed, ever since establishing the first tunnels in the last 1990’s when I was working at UWA. Its also something I was pushing to AWS Service Delivery teams when I worked at AWS in the early 2010s, and in my time at Ajilon/Modis/Akkodis, I have set IPv6 as a stretch goal for all AWS projects to support as a standard.

What’s interesting to see is the increase in IPv6 related announcements from ASW in the What’s New page by year:

It’s clear that IPv6 is now a first class citizen. Coverage is pretty strong, and customers not only can, but in my opinion should, be targeting dual stack solutions, or in some use cases, IPv6-only deployments.

As System Operators (Sys Admins), DevOps and Developer folk, you should be fully comfortable with another transport protocol. Any considerations around addressing should be minimal. In the on-premises desktop/end-user-compute environment, your internal networks are possibly all IPv4 only, but your corporate proxy should now be dual-homed. (It should also be supporting TLS 1.3 and HTTP/3).