Synthesis Achieves AWS Premier Tier Status In The Amazon Web Services Partner Network

Synthesis Software Technologies announced today that it has achieved Premier tier in the AWS Partner Network (APN).

The achievement is significant and differentiates Synthesis as an AWS Partner who demonstrated expertise and notable success in helping customers design, architect, build, migrate, and manage their workloads on AWS.

“Synthesis is delighted to achieve AWS Premier tier partner status,” said Michael Shapiro, Managing Director at Synthesis. “I am incredibly proud of our team for achieving Premier partner status. This recognition validates our deep expertise in AWS and highlights the significant benefits for our customers. With this achievement, we can offer even greater access to advanced AWS resources, solutions, and support. Our clients with our assistance can confidently leverage the full potential of AWS to drive innovation, realise global reach with high availability, and scale efficiently, all while benefiting from our team’s proven commitment to their success in navigating complex cloud journeys.”

To earn the Premier tier, partners must complete a rigorous approval process through accreditations and certifications, must demonstrate a long-term investment in their relationship with AWS, and must have extensive expertise in deploying customer solutions on AWS. AWS Premier Tier Services Partners also have a strong team of AWS Trained & Certified technical consultants and have deep expertise in project management and professional services.

The journey to now…

Synthesis has been working with AWS for more than 10 years, being one of the longest-standing AWS partners on the African continent. The software development company has been proudly recognised as a technically astute partner for AWS, which has been supported by the achievement of many competencies.

Confirming our ability to execute for our customers and naturally AWS, some of our highlights would include:

• Designing and deploying many of the initial AWS Landing Zones ( LZ’s)
• Migrating and modernising complex workloads in the Banking sector
• Being the first local partner to obtain Competency accreditation in Financial Services in the SSA region
• Being the first local partner to obtain Security competency in the SSA Region

Synthesis possesses core competencies spanning multiple domains, including Financial Services, Security Solutions, Migration and Modernisation, DevOps, Microsoft Workloads, and Public Sector.

While the achievement of this significant milestone is a notable accomplishment for Synthesis, the primary beneficiary remains the esteemed Synthesis clientele. The success attained ultimately translates into enhanced value and advantages for our valued customers.

Synthesis possesses an extensive and proven history of experience complemented by multiple professional certifications. Our organisation is well-equipped to support clients through every phase of their digital transformation journey. We deliver value-added services in the following areas:

• Assessing customer’s environment for Cloud
• Building out Landing Zones against the backdrop of best practice
• Migrating and modernising workloads for the cloud
• Automating through DevOps
• Providing insight through the Synthesis FinOps practice
• Securing environments through Cloud Security offerings and services
• Underpinning this with MSP (Managed Services Partner) capability, operationalising   cloud environments through best-in-class engineering skills

Synthesis then further enhances investment in cloud through native and ISV (Independant Software Vendor) solutions like Platform Engineering, Event Streaming, GenAI, and ML (Machine Learning) modelling, to name a few, to extend applications and deliver business and customer value.

“We are really appreciative to our amazing partners at AWS for this recognition. Our partnership continues to grow stronger owing to the close collaboration and focus. As we expand and grow our operations across Europe and the Middle East, this premier status serves as a powerful validation of our capabilities and expertise. It reinforces our reputation as a trusted partner and opens doors to new opportunities, solidifying our position as a leading cloud solutions provider in these dynamic markets”, explains Ariel Weber, Head of Growth at Synthesis.

This year, Synthesis was voted the preferred software development company in South Africa for large business projects (MyBroadband, 2024).

Making contributions to the advancement of technology in our country, Synthesis recently won the Prize of Excellence with AWS for the AI Launchpad solution and the Intelligent Software Partner Award 2024 at the ICT Awards Africa.

“For Synthesis, it does not stop there, we now offer a VMWare no-to-low-cost migration program to migrate from VMware to native AWS technology such as EC2/ (The heart of the AWS architecture allowing organisations to have scalable computing capacity providing the ability to develop and deploy applications without hardware constraints).  We are also currently looking at additional competencies such as MSP, GenAI, and Cloud Operations. The Premier Partner Status now provides even more benefits and access to these programs and advantages for our customers, which is very exciting for us”, says Paul Spagnoletti, Head of Cloud, Security, and Managed Services at Synthesis.

Synthesis recently assisted BankServAfrica in the launch of PayShap, the first fully functioning ACH payment system that runs in the cloud, the first application to be implemented in the AWS cloud because it didn’t have the complexity of legacy systems and would allow Synthesis to establish a well-architected cloud infrastructure for future implementations of migrations of applications.

The PayShap platform was launched in March 2023 and was built to address key goals recognised by the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) and the Payments Association of South Africa (PASA). Synthesis designed and developed Cloud infrastructure for BankservAfrica as a requirement for the deployment of PayShap, and built the foundation for the organisations ongoing cloud journey. The payments platform links communication between BankservAfrica and the participating Top-tier South African Banks. The platform provides best-in-class AWS cloud and security benefits. The solution that has been deployed provides a scalable inter-bank, real-time payments system with a greater uptime from the launch date.

This is a testimonial to our success, and we look forward to many more stories to share.