Jyvaskylä, Finland, 3 December, 2025 – Cloud Consulting Company, NordHero today announced that it was named a winner of the 2025 Nordics Rising Star AWS Regional Partner Award, recognizing partners in the Nordics region that play a key role in helping customers drive innovation and build solutions on AWS.
NordHero founders Pekka Malmirae and Janne Kuha, and the AWS 2025 Nordics Rising Star trophy
Rising Star
AWS Regional Partner Awards recognize AWS’s Top Partners of the Year and Rising Star Partners of the Year in Nordics whose business models have embraced specialization, innovation, and collaboration over the past year. AWS Partner Awards recognize partners whose business models continue to evolve and thrive on AWS as they work with customers. Winners were selected based on objective criteria with results audited by third-party analyst firm, Canalys.
NordHero has continued to expand its AWS collaboration and expertise through multiple milestones. The company earned the AWS Data and Analytics Service Competency, placing it among a select group of advanced partners in Northern Europe. It also expanded its Data and AI offerings across various fields.
NordHero strengthened its customer partnerships, helping customers build innovative solutions across diverse industries. The team also intensified its joint efforts with AWS to drive new customer adoption of the AWS platform. Beyond customer delivery, the company has played an active role in building the AWS community across the Nordics — organizing user groups, leading training sessions, and contributing to AWS certification development. This year, Teemu Niiranen, one of NordHero’s lead cloud architects, was selected to participate in AWS’s Certification Subject Matter Expert Program, collaborating to develop and validate AWS certification exam content.
“We are truly honored to have received the Rising Star award this year,” says Pekka Malmirae, CEO of NordHero. “It shows us that our focus on quality, collaboration, and being easy to work with is valued. Our customers seem to agree, with a very high customer satisfaction score and a multitude of successful solutions delivered over the past year.”
Deep AWS expertise with practical, no-nonsence approach
Admicom Oyj, a publicly-listed Finnish software company serving the construction industry, has partnered with NordHero to optimize and secure its extensive AWS environment. Over the past year, their collaboration has focused on building best practices for cloud management, cost optimization, and smarter use of resources.
“NordHero brings deep AWS expertise and a practical, no-nonsense approach to our partnership,” says Thomas Raehalme, CTO of Admicom Oyj. “They’re a lean, low-bureaucracy team that gets things done quickly and well, and their guidance over the last year has advanced the quality and security of our AWS operations while helping us uncover new ways to save time and resources.”
Thomas Raehalme, CTO @ Admicom Oyj
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NordHero
With offices in Jyväskylä and Helsinki, Finland, NordHero is a cloud consulting company specializing in cloud-native architectures, DevOps, data and analytics, and AI on AWS. It helps organizations design, build, and operate scalable, secure cloud environments that drive real business impact. Renowned for its deep technical expertise, the NordHero team members are highly AWS certified with numerous other technical and business accreditations. In addition, NordHero is an AWS-accredited Well-Architected Reviewer and Immersion Day Facilitator.
Find out more about how NordHero helps customers succeed in their own cloud environments by visiting https://www.nordhero.com.