56k.Cloud achieve Partner of the Year - Rising Star

56k.Cloud has been awarded the AWS Rising Star Consulting Partner award! In recognition of its exceptional growth and contributions as an AWS Advanced Partner in 2025. With over 7 years as an AWS APN Partner and 150+ successfully delivered projects, 56k.Cloud has established itself as a leading cloud solutions provider in both Switzerland and with key global clients. The company maintains one of the largest AWS-certified teams in Switzerland, with deep expertise spanning cloud migration, modernisation, IoT implementations, secure connectivity solutions and most recently applying AI across these core specializations.

During Re:Invent week (1st - 4th December) we were able to share the news: we celebrated the award at the recent Code Thursday event in Sion, Switzerland hosted last week on the 4th December where the 56k.Cloud team gathered with the local tech community. Below is a picture of the 56k.Cloud team.

To put this year into perspective, here are the top highlights of 2025 across project and partnerships activities

Top 6 Achievements in 2025

1. Manufacturing IoT Innovation: Delivered cutting-edge IoT solutions for the manufacturing sector, including AI-commanded mobile robot implementations and platform screen door monitoring systems for transportation infrastructure across Europe and Asia-Pacific, enabling real-time monitoring and predictive maintenance capabilities.
2. Cloud Connectivity Infrastructure: Launched 56k.Cloud Connectivity in partnership with Init7, providing AWS Direct Connect to 2.6 million locations across Switzerland with scalable bandwidth from 50 Mbps to 100 Gbps, establishing a nationwide fabric of secure cloud connectivity points.
3. Cloud Foundations Solution: Introduced 56k.Cloud Foundations as a turnkey solution for secure cloud adoption, delivering production-ready infrastructure with landing zones, CI/CD pipelines, and comprehensive security & governance frameworks, accelerating cloud transformation for enterprise clients.
4. Multi-Industry Digital Transformation: Successfully executed over 6 large projects across diverse sectors including financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing, and travel technology, implementing comprehensive cloud migrations, microservice architectures, and AI-powered monitoring solutions.
5. Advanced Partner Certifications: Achieved both Datadog Advanced Partner status (June 2025) and RedHat Premium Partner certification, expanding capabilities in monitoring, security, and Kubernetes technologies while maintaining AWS Advanced Partner tier status with over 15 AWS-certified team members.
6. AWS Rising Star Recognition: Awarded the AWS Rising Star Consulting Partner of the Year 2025 in recognition of exceptional growth and contributions as an AWS Advanced Partner, validating 7+ years of AWS partnership and deep expertise spanning cloud migration, modernization, IoT implementations, and secure connectivity solutions.

A few weeks ago we can received a very secret box from AWS to only open on week of Re:Invent, so the suspense was high as to what was in this box from AWS ;)

And so last week we opened it finally sharing the news with the team!

Accompanied with the award was a small note from Antonio Alonso Lopez - Director of Partner Management in EMEA!

Some history:

In 2019, we shared the same office building as the AWS Zurich team, this was when we formally started our AWS partnership. After which we quickly became an AWS Select Tier partner after recognizing the knowledge and projects the small team that Brian and I had built in 2019.

In 2023, after a few busy years we achieved AWS Advanced Partner tier, after growing the team and completing a number of large migrations with our key clients. We were not the first to be Advanced in Switzerland having been quite deep in projects we started to invest more across IoT, Migrations and SaaSification in our core competencies that the team had. This is when we started to look at the various AWS programs. You can find out more in our blog post:

What is next

Looking ahead, 56k.Cloud is focused on scaling its AWS practice across the DACH region. We are building on our deep technical expertise in cloud-native technologies across IoT, AI, and cloud networking, extending our reach into Germany and Austria while continuing to serve clients in Switzerland. The goal is to take on larger enterprise transformation projects while keeping our engineering-led culture at the core of everything we do, letting our engineers focus on solving complex technical challenges.

About 56k.Cloud

Founded in Winterthur in 2016, 56k.Cloud has quickly emerged as a leading AWS partner since 2018. We serve prestigious clients, including Siemens, Swisscom, Sunrise, Docker, ARM and many more. With a core focus on cloud product acceleration. We empower clients through specialised services in cloud-native migration, security, developer tooling, and community engagement, facilitating smooth transitions to DevOps and Agile practices. Our partnership with Eurotech strengthens our AWS-centric offerings, making IoT and Edge Computing more accessible. At the heart of our approach is a cloud-native IT strategy that helps clients lead in their digital transformation journeys.

The journey continues

56k.Cloud has even bigger plans to grow and continue to rise as a star in the AWS Consulting space. While we already serve clients outside of Switzerland, now with extended capabilities across Austria and Germany too, we are keen to hear about your problem and ways we can help you. So if you want to know more about what 56k.Cloud does, then reach out, we would be happy to book a meeting and welcome you at our offices in Winterthur and Sion.