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PALO ALTO, March 9
Loka®, the Silicon Valley consultancy Amazon Web Services (AWS) named Innovation Partner of the Year 2024 NAMER, announced today that it has achieved the AWS Small and Medium Business Competency.
The AWS Small and Medium Business (SMB) Competency recognizes AWS Partners with deep technical expertise and a proven track record of helping small and medium-sized businesses address complex business and technology challenges using AWS. To earn this specialization, AWS Partners undergo a rigorous technical audit by a third-party agency that evaluates their architectures, best practices, and demonstrated customer success.
As SMB organizations grow, they increasingly face enterprise-level demands without the same internal resources. Loka’s SMB practice is designed to help these companies scale confidently with the right cloud foundation, combining AWS expertise, hands-on delivery, and proven innovation in generative AI.
Through its SMB offerings, Loka helps organizations implement AI, modernize infrastructure, accelerate innovation, and control costs through services such as cloud consulting and architecture strategy, lift-and-shift migrations enhanced with AWS Well-Architected best practices, infrastructure management with 24/7 monitoring, and cloud security and cost optimization tailored to SMB budgets. Loka also helps SMB customers navigate AWS funding programs while introducing practical GenAI solutions that unlock new opportunities for growth.
"As SMB organizations grow, they increasingly face enterprise-level demands without the same internal resources. Loka’s SMB practice is designed to help these companies scale confidently."
Over the past two years, Loka has expanded its work with SMB customers as part of a broader strategy to deepen its relationship with AWS and grow its presence across NAMER and EMEA. The company continues to build capabilities across AI, agentic systems, migration, and modernization to serve a broader range of customers across industries and regions.
In 2025 alone, Loka launched more than 200 AI and agentic projects, with more than 50 percent moving from proof of concept into production environments. Combined with its extensive AWS experience, backed by over 200 AWS certifications, this track record positions Loka as a leading partner, advisor, and hands-on builder SMB customers.
“Achieving the AWS Small and Medium Business Competency reflects our commitment to helping growing companies adopt powerful technology without unnecessary complexity,” said Emily Kruger, Chief Innovation Officer at Loka. “SMBs often need enterprise-grade capabilities but delivered in a way that is practical, cost conscious, and fast to implement. By combining deep AWS expertise with our experience in GenAI, migrations, and modernization, we help SMB leaders scale their businesses with confidence.”
AWS established the AWS Competency Program to help customers identify AWS Partner Network (APN) members with deep industry experience and proven technical expertise. Competency Partners demonstrate success delivering specialized solutions that help customers innovate faster, reduce risk, and maximize the value of AWS.
ABOUT LOKA
Loka, the AWS 2024 Innovation Partner of the Year, builds GenAI and cloud-native solutions that power startups, SMBs and enterprises in dozens of industries, with a special focus on Healthcare and Life Sciences. Loka is an AWS Premier Partner and top migration partner that regularly contributes to the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center and has launched 500+ GenAI projects since 2023, with more than 50% moving from POC to production. Between launches their teams build in LokaLabs, developing novel solutions like ADDA™️, a conversational LLM-based agent that accelerates therapeutic drug development. Learn more at loka.com.
