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Dedicatted recognized as Canada’s leader in AWS cloud solutions with AWS Premier Tier Services Partner status, the highest tier in the Amazon Web Services Partner Network, awarded to a select group of partners who demonstrate deep technical expertise and proven delivery at scale.
Before we say anything else about what that means for us, it’s worth explaining what it means, period, because the term gets thrown around more loosely than it should.
What an AWS premier partner actually entails and how we got there
To reach Premier, a partner needs a large bench of accredited and certified staff, at least three AWS Competencies with one of them being MSP or DevOps, and 50 launched customer opportunities that carry meaningful recurring revenue behind them. None of that is a one-time bar to clear, either. A partner has to sustain those numbers for six concurrent months, and only then does AWS schedule an Executive Business Review to decide whether the tier is actually granted. The takeaway is simple: this isn’t a form you fill out. It’s a standard you have to hold steady for half a year before AWS will even sit down and evaluate you.
“With over 50 certified AWS professionals and a strong track record of cloud success, Dedicatted is committed to enabling organizations to leverage the full potential of AWS. Achieving Premier Tier status is a testament to our team’s dedication, technical excellence, and the trust our clients place in us to deliver innovative cloud solutions.”
The part that matters a lot: you can’t buy your way in
Here’s the detail that should reassure anyone skeptical of vendor tiering programs. All three tiers, Select, Advanced, and Premier, cost the same annual program fee. Money doesn’t move a partner up a level. What separates the tiers is documented, audited evidence: certified staff headcount, completed engagements, and customer satisfaction data that AWS reviews directly. The tier can’t be purchased. It can only be earned, and the paper trail behind it is the whole point.
Premier vs. Advanced: in practical terms
If you’ve worked with an AWS Advanced partner before and are wondering what actually changes at Premier, the short version is this: Advanced proves a partner is competent. Premier proves breadth, scale, and organizational maturity. An Advanced partner has cleared a real bar. A Premier partner has cleared that same bar and then sustained it across a much larger base of certified people, delivered engagements, and audited outcomes, long enough for AWS to independently confirm it holds up.
Strip away the badge and the practical point for a customer is this: you’re working with a team AWS has independently vetted at its highest level, which lowers your delivery risk. That matters most in exactly the situations where the cost of getting it wrong is highest: regulated industries and financial services, complex migrations, and AI builds. Those are the engagements where a partner’s track record isn’t a nice-to-have, it’s the thing standing between a smooth rollout and a very expensive mistake.
Premier Tier is one credential within a broader portfolio, not the whole narrative. Set alongside the Generative AI Competency, the MSP designation, a top 2% global ranking among AWS partners, and a seat in the Agentic AI pilot, a more complete picture takes shape. The distinction isn’t a single badge displayed on a homepage; it is consistent, independently audited evidence spanning AI, managed services, and delivery execution, each credential reinforcing the same conclusion from a different angle.
Taken together, this portfolio is what enables Dedicatted to operate as a single, accountable partner across the full engagement lifecycle: from initial architecture and migration through managed operations, security, and sustained AI adoption, with no handoffs between vendors along the way. Contact us today to discuss how Dedicatted can support your organization’s cloud and AI transformation.
