Hostin Services wins AWS Premier Tier partner status

Hostin Services has achieved AWS Premier Tier Services Partner status through its Cloud.in business, the highest level in the AWS Partner Network.

The designation gives the Pune-based company top-tier standing within Amazon Web Services' partner ecosystem after more than a decade on the platform. It reflects validation across customer delivery, AWS certifications, technical specialisations, and managed services.

Founded in 1999, Hostin Services has focused on technology infrastructure and says it has spent more than 27 years helping organisations build, operate, and modernise critical systems. It became an AWS partner in 2014 and has since expanded Cloud.in as its cloud transformation, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and managed services arm.

Under AWS rules, Premier Tier status is reserved for partners that demonstrate technical depth, customer references, and sustained investment in skills and operations. The tier is intended to identify companies that can design, migrate, modernise, secure, and run complex production workloads on AWS.

According to the company, Cloud.in's AWS practice includes five AWS Competencies and 14 AWS Service Validations. It also participates in four AWS partner programmes, including AWS Managed Service Provider and AWS Well-Architected, and employs a large AWS-certified engineering team.

AWS focus

The business offers consulting, migration, modernisation, managed cloud services, FinOps, cybersecurity, disaster recovery, data platforms, and enterprise AI work. It also operates across other environments, including Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and hybrid infrastructure, although the latest designation relates specifically to its AWS operations.

The announcement comes as many companies reassess cloud spending and governance while testing generative AI tools in production. That has increased demand for service providers that can combine migration work with security, cost control, and ongoing operational management.

Hostin Services says Cloud.in has been expanding its AI work on AWS to support customers building secure systems for live use. It is combining cloud engineering, governance, security, and operational oversight as organisations move from initial cloud adoption toward broader AI-led transformation programmes.

The company described the designation as a marker of customer trust and long-term investment in AWS-related services.

"Achieving AWS Premier Tier Services Partner status is an important milestone in our journey and reflects the trust our customers and AWS have placed in our team," said Rahul S. Kurkure, Founder and Managing Director, Hostin Services. "For more than twenty-seven years, our focus has been to help customers solve complex technology challenges through engineering excellence, operational discipline, and long-term partnership. Today, organizations need more than cloud infrastructure-they need strategic partners who can modernize applications, optimize cloud investments, strengthen cybersecurity, enable responsible AI adoption, and continuously improve operational performance. Through Cloud.in, we remain committed to helping customers build secure, resilient, and future-ready digital foundations that create lasting business value."

The company's growth in AWS work has come alongside a broader shift in the IT services market, where cloud partners are under pressure to show not only migration expertise but also operational discipline after deployment. Managed services, resilience planning, governance controls, and cloud cost management have become central parts of enterprise contracts.

Broader market

For AWS, partner tiers signal quality to customers navigating a crowded services market. Premier-level partners are often used by larger organisations seeking outside support for business-critical systems, particularly where security, compliance, and uptime are central requirements.

Hostin Services plans to continue investing in engineering talent, automation, cloud governance, cybersecurity, and AI through Cloud.in. Those areas are becoming more important as customers seek to maintain reliable and compliant operations while extending their use of cloud and AI tools.

Since establishing its AWS practice in 2014, Cloud.in has evolved into the company's main cloud transformation, AI, cybersecurity, and managed services business, delivering enterprise solutions across public, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.