SUDO Consultants recognized as AWS Premier Tier Services Partner in the Amazon Web Services partner network

SUDO Consultants recognized as AWS Premier Tier Services Partner in the Amazon Web Services partner network
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Updated 30 September 2025
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SUDO Consultants recognized as AWS Premier Tier Services Partner in the Amazon Web Services partner network

SUDO Consultants recognized as AWS Premier Tier Services Partner in the Amazon Web Services partner network

SUDO Consultants, a leading cloud consulting and digital transformation partner in the Middle East, has been recognized as an AWS Premier Tier Services partner in the AWS partner network.

Being recognized as an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner differentiates SUDO as an AWS partner that has demonstrated expertise and notable success in helping customers design, architect, build, migrate, and manage workloads on AWS.

“SUDO Consultants is proud to be recognized as a Premier Tier Services Partner in the AWS Partner Network,” said Hameedullah Khan, CEO of SUDO Consultants. 

“This recognition validates the results we deliver and the trust our clients place in us. Completing the rigorous process of demonstrating AWS expertise shows that our team is dedicated to helping companies achieve their goals by leveraging the agility, breadth of services, and pace of innovation that AWS provides.”

To qualify for Premier Tier, companies must complete a rigorous approval process through accreditations and certifications, demonstrate a long-term investment in their relationship with AWS, and showcase extensive expertise in deploying customer solutions on AWS. AWS Premier Tier Services Partners also have a strong team of AWS-trained and certified consultants and proven capabilities in project management and professional services.

As part of its expanding AWS practice, SUDO has also achieved multiple AWS competencies — including DevOps, Resilience, MSP and Gen AI — and has launched AWS Bedrock-powered generative AI frameworks for industries such as finance, retail, and healthcare.

These solutions are designed to deliver:

  • Improved customer experiences through AI-driven personalization and real-time decisioning.
  • Faster innovation by automating content creation and product design to cut time-to-market.
  • Greater efficiency with predictive analytics and process automation that unlock up to 40% in productivity gains.
  • Stronger compliance by embedding security and governance into every AI workflow.

“We’re excited to bring our Premier Tier capabilities to GITEX Global 2025, where we’ll showcase how generative AI can move beyond hype to deliver real business impact,” said Khan.

Customers across the Middle East have already benefited from SUDO’s expertise, including enterprises in financial services, logistics, and consumer goods who have scaled operations and reduced costs using AWS-native solutions implemented by SUDO.

About SUDO 

SUDO Consultants is a leading cloud consulting and digital transformation company, helping organizations across the Middle East embrace the future with AWS-powered innovation. From DevOps to GenAI, from resilience frameworks to cloud optimization, SUDO empowers enterprises to move faster, smarter, and with confidence. 

Catch SUDO Live: 

AWS Cloud Day, Riyadh – September 29, 2025 
 Join us in Riyadh to connect with our AWS experts, explore our GenAI use cases, and discover how our Premier Tier recognition can accelerate your business.


ALJ Finance and Ant join forces to grow Saudi MSMEs

ALJ Finance and Ant join forces to grow Saudi MSMEs
Updated 11 November 2025
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ALJ Finance and Ant join forces to grow Saudi MSMEs

ALJ Finance and Ant join forces to grow Saudi MSMEs

Abdul Latif Jameel Finance, a leader in innovative financing solutions and services that is regulated by the Saudi Central Bank, and Ant International, a global digital payment, digitization and financial technology provider, have signed an MoU to jointly explore opportunities in the financial technology sector in Saudi Arabia. Through this collaboration, ALJ Finance and Ant International will help grow and strengthen micro, small and medium enterprises in the Kingdom with advanced digital services.

Both parties plan to collaborate on a diversified range of innovative digital financial services to Saudi businesses and consumers. These include:

  • Exploring how WorldFirst, Ant International’s all-in-one digital cross-border payment and treasury account service, can leverage its technology to support ALJ Finance’s digitization strategy for its diverse financial and consumer businesses.
  • Collaborating on advanced cross-border payment solutions, leveraging Alipay+, Ant International’s global mobile wallet gateway, to support local and international expansion of customers in ALJ Finance’s robust merchant network in Saudi Arabia.
  • Further partnering on opportunities in embedded finance, while leveraging Ant International’s digital technologies.

Dr. Khalid Alsharif, CEO of ALJ Finance, said: “Our collaboration with Ant International represents an important step toward realizing our vision of enabling innovative and more inclusive financial solutions in Saudi Arabia. As the fintech ecosystem continues to evolve, we remain committed to contributing to the advancement of the financial sector, in line with Vision 2030.”

Leiming Chen, senior vice president and chief sustainability officer of Ant International, said: “The MoU is another important step in Ant International’s journey to build cross-sector partnerships with regional industry leaders in supporting Saudi Arabia’s digital economy agenda.”

“WorldFirst and Ant International are honored to support the mission of Abdul Latif Jameel Finance to provide diversified financial and digital services for MSMEs in the Middle East, ” said Clara Shi, CEO of WorldFirst. “Joining our innovative fintech capabilities with Abdul Latif Jameel Finance’s expertise and ecosystem, we look forward to contributing to regional trade and commerce as Saudi Arabia embraces an exciting digital transformation.”

With headquarters in Singapore and main operations across Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Latin America, Ant International provides global wallet gateway, global merchant payment services, unified global account services, and embedded finance services through its major brands Alipay+, Antom, WorldFirst, and Bettr. In 2025, Ant International opened its first Middle East office in Riyadh and will integrate Alipay+ with Saudi Arabia’s national payment scheme, mada, in 2026.

The MoU aims to better serve Saudi Arabia’s retail and MSME customers, leveraging a combination of ALJ Finance’s reach in the Kingdom and Ant International’s digital technologies.