Devoteam has been named Consulting Partner of the Year for the United Kingdom and Ireland at the 2026 Regional AWS Partner Awards, a recognition that reflects the firm’s recent work across cloud migration and modernization, with growing emphasis on AI delivery.
The award was announced during the AWS Partner Summit in London and forms part of a global program recognizing partners helping customers build and scale on Amazon Web Services. In the UK and Ireland, the category increasingly points to firms that can move beyond initial cloud adoption and handle the more difficult phase that follows, which involves reworking systems so they can actually support data and AI at scale.
For Devoteam, that has meant a year focused on migration and modernization, particularly in environments where legacy systems and newer cloud-native architectures need to operate together. That work tends to be where projects either gain traction or stall, especially when AI is layered in without the underlying structure to support it.
The Regional AWS Partner Awards, part of the AWS Partner Network, highlight partners that combine deep technical focus with measurable customer results. Winners are evaluated on performance over the past year, with datasets audited by Canalys to ensure consistency.
Devoteam’s delivery model has centered on staying close to customer outcomes while taking on the kind of complex workloads that tend to stall less experienced teams. The firm has increased its number of AWS-certified specialists across the UK and Ireland, while taking on larger migration and modernization programs that require coordination across multiple systems and teams.
John Lacey, Managing Director of Devoteam UK, said the recognition reflects the firm’s ongoing work in areas where expectations are rising quickly. “This award reflects the quality and impact of the work our people do every single day, particularly in AI and cloud migration and modernisation, where we are consistently setting new standards across the UK and Ireland.”
Steven Crowley, also Managing Director of Devoteam UK, pointed to the collective effort behind the award. “John and I have been building together for a very long time, but this award isn’t about the two of us. It belongs to the team – the people whose expertise, grit, and commitment to our customers is what actually sets us apart. Thank you to AWS for the recognition, and to our customers and teams whose trust and collaboration make moments like this possible.”
Large-scale cloud programs now hinge on tight coordination across everyone involved, from the customer to the partner to AWS. As AWS continues to expand its capabilities across data and AI, the challenge for partners is less about access to tools and more about making them work in real environments.
Devoteam’s longer-term strategy reflects that shift. Through its Amplify 2028 plan, the firm is targeting a model where 50% of its revenue comes from AI-related services. To support that, it is training all 11,000 employees in AI capabilities, with the expectation that those skills are embedded across delivery rather than isolated within specialist teams.
The emphasis on training at that scale signals where the market is heading. AI is no longer separate from the stack. It is being built directly into cloud architectures, which puts more pressure on how systems are designed and governed.
Looking ahead, Devoteam’s work is expected to remain focused on AWS migration and modernization, alongside deeper adoption of data analytics and AI. As enterprise cloud environments grow more complex, the ability to move from deployment to consistent, measurable outcomes is becoming a baseline expectation.
The AWS Partner Awards methodology reflects that reality. Partners are assessed not only on growth and technical capability but also on their ability to deliver results for customers over time.
For Devoteam, the recognition reflects a year of execution across the UK and Ireland. What matters more is what it points to: cloud work is no longer judged on what gets deployed, but on what actually holds up once AI is put into production.