AWS’ Premier Consulting Partner designation highlights the top APN Consulting Partners globally that have distinguished themselves by investing significantly in their AWS practice, providing exceptional customer service, helping a large number of significant customers run their applications on top of AWS, and building a healthy revenue generating consulting business on AWS.

To be eligible for this designation, partners must first have achieved the status of Advanced Consulting Partner under APN, and must also meet additional qualitative and quantitative requirements. Premier Consulting Partners are selected annually and next year’s selection process will start in summer 2013.

The companies making the list range from old-line consulting firms like Capgemini to newcomers like Razorfish. See the full list.