Loka is an AWS Premier Tier Partner
Achieving AWS’s most elite partner status elevates Loka’s service offerings to customers.
Premier Partner, Premier Benefits
In mid-2024, Loka achieved Premier Tier Partner status, the highest-level designation available to AWS partners.
Loka’s Premier Tier Partner status follows six additional AWS technical competencies earned over the past 18 months. With it Loka steps into rarified territory: Of 130,000 service partners worldwide, AWS has awarded Premier Tier status to fewer than 100.
AWS is the most popular, customer-friendly cloud platform on Earth. Their investment in generative AI provides the firm footing that startups, SMBs and enterprises need when considering their own AI-powered offerings.
Customers working with AWS Partners
Launch 3x faster
Expertise
AWS demands that Premier Tier companies employ individuals who bring a minimum 85 collective AWS certifications. Loka employs about twice as many.
Experience
Premier Tier companies must launch a minimum 50 projects on AWS with a diverse range of clients. Loka has launched more than 400.
Specialization and Diversification
Premier Tier companies must specialize in at least three different technical fields and achieve AWS competencies in those fields. Loka currently has six competencies and counting: Generative AI, Migration, SaaS, Data and Analytics, Healthcare and DevOps. Each competency required 50 pages of detailed documentation and a four-hour, third-party audit.
Public
Endorsement
Premier Tier companies must amass dozens of publicly available customer satisfaction responses within 18 months of designation. Loka boasts more than 60 endorsements with a 99% recommendation rate.
Why Premier Partner Status Matters
of AWS customers say cloud certifications are important in deciding on a service partner.
say certifications are a deciding factor when selecting one partner over another.
review their partners’ cloud certifications at least twice a year.
Success Over Time
Companies need to not only meet AWS' strict Premier Tier criteria but also maintain them for six months before qualifying for an audit. Dropping below the minimums in ANY category means the clock starts over.
The six-month minimum weeds out most applicants and crystallizes the “success over time” mantra of AWS Premier Tier.
What Does Premier Tier Mean for Loka Customers?
Vetted Staff
Along with 170 AWS certifications shared among Loka teammates, the company also employs a dozen PhDs, multiple former founders, ex-AWS staffers and HCLS experts formerly of Novartis and other industry leaders.
Premier Tier vetting affirms Loka’s overachieving employees as among the best in the world—and we’re ready to plug and play with every new client we take on.
“Our partnership with Loka allows us to move faster and punch above our weight class with more complex LLM implementations – the kind that remove friction and keep our customers coming back for more.”
Project Funding
Premier Tier gives AWS Partners exclusive access to AWS funds that they can pass on to customers.
In the past year, Loka has disbursed millions of dollars to customers launching workloads on AWS at little to no cost to them.
Advanced Technologies
Premier Tier partners are first in line to test cutting-edge AWS technologies as they’re being developed. When these solutions become available for general public use, Premier Tier companies are already well-versed.
Through rigorous testing, Loka develops the knowledge of which tools are most effective across a wide range of scenarios and applications.
It all adds up to one thing: Loka helps customers accelerate faster.
