Tel Aviv, Israel – 9, September, 2026
Cloudride is thrilled to announce it has been awarded the prestigious 2026 AWS Regional Partner Award as Rising Star Consulting Partner of the Year (EMEA). This award celebrates high-impact leaders across the globe playing a pivotal role in helping businesses innovate, scale, and build high-performance solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Specifically, this recognition highlights Cloudride’s rapid growth, technical excellence, and relentless commitment to customer obsession.
Announced during the AWS Partner Summit in Tel Aviv, the Regional AWS Partner Awards recognize AWS Partners that have embraced specialization, innovation, and cooperation over the past year. Regional AWS Partner Awards recognize partners whose business models continue to evolve and thrive on AWS as they support their customers.
What Does Earning the AWS Regional Partner Award Mean for Cloudride?
Grounded in three core pillars: Smart-Simple, Agile, and Cost-Effective, Cloudride acts as a high-velocity extension of engineering teams for startups and SMBs across Israel. By simplifying complex cloud journeys, Cloudride empowers emerging tech leaders to build resilient AWS foundations, modernize infrastructure, and maintain total control over cloud spend. Cloudride’s holistic suite of offerings includes DevOps as a Service, Cloud Security, FinOps, DPO as a Service, and Over-c AI – its proprietary platform engineered to give businesses complete visibility and control over their AI costs.
“Winning the 2026 AWS Rising Star Consulting Partner of the Year award is a testament to Cloudride’s relentless focus on customer obsession and technological excellence. By bridging high-level cloud architecture with hands-on execution, Cloudride enables Israeli startups and SMBs to eliminate operational friction, control costs, and accelerate their product innovation with total confidence on AWS.”
— Danny Lev-Ran, CEO, Cloudride
Driving Growth for Startups and SMBs in Israel
This recognition stems directly from Cloudride’s active role within the Israeli technology ecosystem. By collaborating closely with local startups and small-to-medium businesses (SMBs), Cloudride acts as an extended engineering team, assisting emerging companies as they scale their cloud infrastructure without incurring unnecessary operational overhead. From early-stage ventures establishing their initial cloud architecture to expanding SMBs modernizing legacy environments, Cloudride provides the strategic advisory, rapid deployment, and direct accessibility required to build lean, secure, and resilient systems on AWS. By bridging high-level architectural design with hands-on execution, Cloudride enables Israeli businesses to focus on core product development while maintaining full confidence in their cloud foundation.
Built on Three Core Pillars
Cloudride’s consulting methodology centers on three key operational principles suited for fast-moving technical environments:
Cost-Effective
Maximizing ROI to ensure every cloud investment delivers clear, measurable business value—supported by specialized solutions like Cloudride’s proprietary Over-c AI platform for monitoring AI expenditures.
Smart-Simple
Converting complex architectures into intuitive, manageable solutions.
Agile
Executing with speed and flexibility to adapt to changing technical and market requirements.
Beyond a Supplier: A Value-Driven Partner
Ultimately, this award reflects the trust placed in Cloudride by the organizations it supports.
“Cloudride gives you the feeling that they are really willing to go above and beyond. They are driven by providing value and results and are simply willing to take those extra steps that differentiate between a supplier and a partner.”
— Aviel Dahan, Global IT Director, Radwin
The Regional AWS Partner Awards winners were evaluated by a unique set of metrics that helped measure AWS Partners’ performance over the past year. Canalys audited the datasets used to ensure that all measurements and calculations were objective and accurate.
The AWS Partner Network (APN) is a global program focused on helping partners innovate, accelerate their journey to the cloud, and take full advantage of the breadth and depth of AWS.
About Cloudride
Cloudride is a leading AWS Consulting Partner delivering end-to-end cloud solutions designed to simplify, secure, and optimize modern IT infrastructure. Guided by its core principles of smart-simple, agility, and cost-effectiveness, Cloudride provides specialized services including DevOps as a Service, Cloud Security, FinOps, DPO as a Service, and proprietary AI cost monitoring with Over-c AI. Cloudride partners closely with startups, SMBs, and enterprise customers to drive scalable growth and measurable results on AWS.
