Fujitsu Wins Record Eight 2025 AWS Japan Certification Awards

On June 18, 2026, Fujitsu Limited said it had won a record eight of twelve categories at the AWS Japan Certification Award 2025, in an announcement from Kawasaki, Japan. Three of those wins sit in categories the company had not won before, all in AI and advanced technology: Professional of the Year, AI Practitioner of the Year, and AI/ML and Data Engineers Champion. The award is hosted by Amazon Web Services Japan G.K. and recognizes Japanese partner companies based on their AWS certification achievements. Fujitsu won the AI/ML and Data Engineers Champion category, which counts individuals who hold all four of the AI certifications on AWS’s AI and data list.

The evaluation period, per the AWS Japan program guide, ran from April 1, 2025 through March 31, 2026. Fujitsu framed the eight wins as evidence of its ability to support end-to-end cloud infrastructure design and operation to advanced domains such as generative AI and data utilization. The release cites Mark Daigle, Managing Director of Global Partner Solutions for AWS Training and Certification at Amazon Web Services, and Shunsuke Onishi, Corporate Executive Officer, Corporate Vice President, and CRO at Fujitsu Limited, as the named voices in the Fujitsu’s June 18 award announcement. The three first-time AI categories are ones Fujitsu had not won in earlier award years. The wins sit on top of an ongoing company-wide push to expand AWS-certified headcount across Fujitsu’s delivery operations.

Eight of Twelve Categories, a New High for AWS Japan

Fujitsu’s June 18 release calls its eight wins at the AWS Japan Certification Award 2025 a record for the company. The award covers twelve categories in total, with each going to the Japanese AWS partner that earned the most certifications during the evaluation window. That window runs from April 1, 2025 through March 31, 2026, the 2025 award’s standard evaluation cycle. The eight wins span the certification structure, with three of them in AI-specific categories Fujitsu had not won in earlier award cycles.

• 8 of 12 categories won by Fujitsu at the 2025 AWS Japan Certification Award
• 3 first-time AI categories for Fujitsu in the eight wins
• 12 total award categories in the 2025 program
• April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2026 evaluation window for partner certifications

The full list of categories, per the AWS Japan program guide for the 2025 award, runs from All Certifications Champion at the top to All Certification Engineers Champion at the bottom, with AI Practitioner of the Year and AI/ML and Data Engineers Champion as two of the twelve slots. Fujitsu does not name the four categories it did not win in its June 18 release. The release names three first-time wins in AI and advanced technology: Professional of the Year, AI Practitioner of the Year, and AI/ML and Data Engineers Champion. Those three categories are the new ground in the eight-of-twelve result. Fujitsu framed the count as a deliberate company-wide initiative to expand specialized talent in generative AI and data domains.

The eight wins cross both halves of the scorecard, with three of them in the AI-specific categories. The other five sit in foundational, professional, and specialty tiers that AWS Japan also scores. The 2025 award period, ending March 31, 2026, is the cycle that closed just before the June 18 announcement.

Three First-Time AI Awards and What They Measure

Three of Fujitsu’s eight wins sit in categories the company had not won before. All three fall in AI and advanced technology.

Professional of the Year measures partners whose individuals earned the most AWS Professional-level certifications during the evaluation window. AI Practitioner of the Year counts individuals who passed the foundational AI certification exam from AWS. AI/ML and Data Engineers Champion is a stacked measure: the partner with the most individuals who hold all four required AWS AI and data certifications on the program’s list. The four required are the AI Practitioner, the Data Engineer Associate, the Machine Learning Engineer Associate, and either the Machine Learning Specialty or the Generative AI Developer Professional. AWS Japan’s program guide said the AI and data categories track where demand is heading, with generative AI and machine learning talent in short supply and cultivating these technical experts an urgent task for many companies.

Daigle framed the wins as a leap forward. He pointed to the advanced certification areas of AI and machine learning, and called Fujitsu’s progress in those areas outstanding. His full comment also pointed to the ‘global strategic collaboration’ AWS and Fujitsu are expanding, and said AWS looks to the integrator to use its deep AI expertise for transformative customer work.

Fujitsu’s achievements are truly outstanding, especially their leap forward in the advanced certification areas of AI and machine learning.

Daigle, the AWS voice in the announcement, leads the Global Partner Solutions unit within AWS Training and Certification. His full comment also said AWS is expanding the global strategic collaboration with Fujitsu. Fujitsu’s release ties the certification count to its ongoing collaboration with AWS, with the wins as the visible output of the partnership. The release also says the eight wins reflect Fujitsu’s ability to support end-to-end cloud infrastructure design and operation across generative AI and data domains.

Why AWS Japan Built the AI Categories

The AWS Japan award scores partners across twelve categories, mapped to the AWS certification tier structure from foundational to professional to specialty. The 2025 award includes two AI-specific categories, AI Practitioner of the Year and AI/ML and Data Engineers Champion, that are tied to certifications AWS launched in its AI and data track. Both categories were already part of the AWS Japan program when the 2025 cycle opened, alongside the ten non-AI slots.

The program guide for the 2025 award explained why those AI categories were built. Customer-facing teams in sales and support are taking the foundational cloud and generative AI exams at a growing rate, the guide noted. At the same time, demand is rising for specialists in higher-skill technical areas, with generative AI and machine learning talent in particularly short supply. AWS Japan framed cultivating these technical experts as an urgent task for many companies. The result is a partner scorecard that includes categories spanning both foundational cloud adoption and advanced AI specialties, with each category measured by AWS certification counts at individual partner organizations.

Fujitsu’s first-time AI wins, and its lead in the AI/ML and Data Engineers Champion stacked measure, put the company at the top of the AI depth ranking in this year’s AWS Japan partner list. AWS Japan flagged generative AI and machine learning talent as a documented shortage in its 2025 program guide.

The Talent Engine Behind Fujitsu’s Tally

Fujitsu’s eight wins sit at the end of a multi-year internal certification push, with the company running AWS certifications as a standing program. The company has run AWS certifications as a company-wide skill enhancement initiative. The focus is on specialized personnel in generative AI and data domains.

The June 18 release does not give a headcount for Fujitsu’s AWS-certified engineers or break the wins down by business unit. It frames the eight awards as a culminating result of multi-year certification efforts, particularly in the AI field. Onishi is the named voice on the customer side of the release, in a statement that puts commercial delivery at the center of the certification tally. The eight awards are tied in his statement to Fujitsu’s contribution to customer business sophistication and competitiveness, with the support of a deep pool of practical technical talent. His full statement opens with thanks to AWS and the broader award program.

The core of his statement is about how the certification tally connects to Fujitsu’s customer work. It also points to the company’s plan to expand specialized talent through advanced certifications. His full statement reads:

We are deeply honored to have received numerous awards at the ‘AWS Japan Certification Award 2025.’ We believe these awards demonstrate our contribution to enhancing our customers’ business sophistication and competitiveness, underpinned by our deep pool of practical technical talent.

Onishi, the named voice for the customer side of the release, holds the titles of Corporate Executive Officer, Corporate Vice President, and CRO at Fujitsu Limited. His full statement also says Fujitsu is strengthening its initiatives in advanced areas, with value creation centered on AI as a driving force for growth. The release ties the certification tally to that AI direction and to a planned expansion of specialized talent through advanced certifications going forward. The eight wins close out an evaluation window that ended March 31, 2026, with three of the eight being first-time AI wins. Fujitsu’s release says the certifications reflect its ability to support end-to-end cloud infrastructure design and operation to advanced domains such as generative AI and data utilization.

What AWS Gains from a Certified Fujitsu

AWS Japan runs the award, defines the categories, and sets the certification threshold each partner must clear. The Fujitsu result is a public record of how well a top Japanese partner has built out the certifications AWS itself designed, as scored across the twelve categories. Daigle’s full comment points to AWS looking to Fujitsu to use its deep AI expertise for transformative customer work, as set out in the 12 categories in the 2025 program guide from AWS Japan. The eight wins, with three of them in new AI categories for Fujitsu, are the public output of the broader collaboration between AWS and Fujitsu on AI delivery.

The 2025 award period ended March 31, 2026, and the Fujitsu release went out on June 18, 2026. The AWS Japan program guide said results would be published on the AWS blog in May 2026, with Fujitsu’s release following in the same announcement window. The timing gives AWS time to verify the certification counts before the public release.

Daigle’s full comment ends with the partnership framing, including a reference to the global strategic collaboration AWS and Fujitsu are expanding. AWS and Fujitsu have run that collaboration as a standing partner agreement, with Fujitsu using it to deepen delivery capabilities in Japan and abroad. The award tally is a public marker of which Japanese partner has the cert depth to staff AI projects at scale. The Fujitsu statement, with the AWS comment sitting inside it, lays the training records and the customer-facing work side by side in the same document. The release says Fujitsu will accelerate the provision of new value utilizing AI through the AWS collaboration.