FanLead Inc. (Headquarters: Toshima-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Keiichi Kobayashi; hereinafter "FanLead"), a subsidiary of Taiyo Holdings Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Toshima-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Hitoshi Saito; Securities Code: 4626; hereinafter "Taiyo Holdings") and responsible for its ICT business, will expand its certified engineers equipped with generative AI and cloud technologies to support the business transformation accelerated by customer AI utilization. In this initiative, our engineers have been awarded and selected for the "2026 Japan AWS Jr. Champions" and "2026 Japan All AWS Certifications Engineers" in an award program promoted by Amazon Web Services Japan, LLC (hereinafter "AWS Japan"). This was announced by AWS at AWS Summit Japan 2026, held on June 25-26, 2026, and our employees have been certified as follows: Awardees for "2026 Japan AWS Jr. Champions" and "2026 Japan All AWS Certifications Engineers": From left, Kyoko Nitta, Shuntaro Miyazaki, Ryuta Mori, Zhiguang Qian, Chisato Akimoto. [Award and Selection Summary] 1. 2026 Japan AWS Jr. Champions The "2026 Japan AWS Jr. Champion Program" is a unique award system in Japan that selects and forms a community of young AWS engineers belonging to partner companies participating in the AWS Partner Network (APN). Engineers in their first to third year of professional experience were selected through screening by AWS Japan based on the criteria described in the APN Blog below, for activities during the period from April 2025 to March 2026. Awardee: Ryuta Mori (DX Pioneer Business Unit, AWS Group) - 2026 Japan AWS Jr. Champion Program Details https://aws.amazon.com/jp/blogs/psa/2026-japan-aws-jr-champions-criteria/ - 2026 Japan AWS Jr. Champions Awardee Announcement Page https://aws.amazon.com/jp/blogs/psa/2026-japan-aws-jr-champions/ 2. 2026 Japan All AWS Certifications Engineers The "2026 Japan AWS All Certifications Engineer" award recognizes AWS engineers belonging to APN participating companie