Deloitte Africa Named AWS Consulting Partner of the Year

Deloitte Africa has been named AWS Consulting Partner of the Year at the 2026 AWS Partner Summit and Awards, marking the firm’s second consecutive year receiving the recognition. The award was presented at the Gallagher Convention Centre in Midrand on August 18, 2026.

The AWS Consulting Partner of the Year Award recognizes consulting partners that demonstrate strong performance across areas including revenue growth, skills and capability development, and AWS competencies and designations.

Deloitte Africa’s latest recognition highlights its continued work with AWS and its focus on cloud-led transformation across the African market.The recognition comes as organizations across Africa continue to modernize their technology environments and adopt cloud-based solutions.

Through its AWS relationship, Deloitte combines its consulting and industry expertise with AWS capabilities to support clients across different sectors.

Deloitte Africa’s AWS partnership is led by Aasif Karachi, who is responsible for the strategy, positioning and performance of the alliance across Africa. His role focuses on joint growth, ecosystem collaboration and developing scalable solutions that deliver measurable business outcomes.

“Winning AWS Consulting Partner of the Year for the second consecutive year is an incredible milestone for us.”— Aasif Karachi, Partner and Deloitte Africa Alliance Leader

The award reflects Deloitte Africa’s work beyond partnership development, with client transformation projects also highlighted during the AWS Partner Summit. Solutions delivered in collaboration with Gold Fields and Trident Steel were presented as examples of innovation and business impact.

For Gold Fields, Deloitte implemented a solution that reduced incident-reporting times from weeks to hours, helping improve responsiveness and operational efficiency. Deloitte Africa also worked with AWS to develop an advanced monitoring centre that combines human expertise with AI-driven intelligence to identify risks and generate incident reports in real time.

These projects demonstrate the practical role of consulting expertise in applying cloud technology to operational challenges. They also highlight the broader Deloitte-AWS collaboration, which spans cloud transformation, data, AI and industry-specific technology solutions.

Deloitte and AWS Strengthen Client Transformation

The second consecutive AWS Consulting Partner of the Year recognition strengthens Deloitte Africa’s position within the AWS partner ecosystem. It also reflects the firm’s continued investment in AWS capabilities and consulting expertise.

The Gold Fields and Trident Steel projects demonstrate the range of transformation work supported through the partnership. By combining consulting experience with cloud capabilities, Deloitte and AWS are addressing technology and operational requirements across different industries.

As organizations across Africa continue their digital transformation journeys, the Deloitte-AWS relationship is focused on developing solutions that can create measurable business value. The latest award gives further recognition to Deloitte Africa’s consulting capabilities and its ongoing collaboration with AWS.