Amazon offers a global
partner program “AWS Partner Network” (APN where it trains and equips the
participating service providers with AWS tools to help the end-users benefit
from the AWS technologies and build cost-efficient solutions for their
business. The APNs provide the marketing, technical and advisory services.
It requires high skills
and effort to keep pace with the innovative cloud strategies and tools that AWS
offers. It may not be possible for your in-house technical team to cope up with
the evolving trends. In order not to lose out to the competition, you should
consider the services of an AWS consulting partner.
The consultants can guide you with the right methods to
benefit from the AWS cloud infrastructure and have significant cost savings.
More about AWS:
AWS is the market
leader in the public cloud and has affordable solutions for businesses of all
sizes. It allows on-demand availability to several cloud infrastructure
services. The services are payable on consumption i.e. pay as you use model.
Users need not invest on hardware and other technical aspects.
The benefits you get:
By teaming up with an AWS
consulting partner, you are assured of superior quality services, support, and
infrastructure thereby improving cash flow and reduce costs eliminating wastage
and upfront investments. They have the competency and expertise to design,
build, manage, and migrate your existing IT applications to the AWS
environment.
There are some privileges
and innovative benefits that the consultants enjoy as a partner from the Amazon
Web Services that they use and extend customized services as per your needs.
Some of the services
that the AWS consulting partner offer include
Migration of systems and applications from a non-AWS service provider to their AWS environment
Migrate applications and data from an on-premise or third-party data center to the managed AWS cloud services.
Analyze and assess existing AWS usage, the security loopholes, compliances, regulations, and adopt the best practices for cost reductions.
Migrate applications and data storage to the AWS data stores.
Understand and apply the core AWS services, developing and maintaining applications built for AWS DynamoDB, AWS S3, Amazon Simple queue service, Amazon
Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon CloudFormation, and many others.
How does it work
The AWS consulting
partner designates dedicated experts for your business.
1. They will collect
all the information. They then assess and give an approximation of the services
they can provide and how it will benefit you.
2. They will then do an
in-depth study of your present engagements and infrastructure being used. They
then build a project roadmap for your perusal and approval.
3. Once you give your
nod, the team will sit with your in-house experts and develop a strategy to
build an AWS cloud infrastructure. They will provide dedicated support and
training to your in-house team to give them the proficiencies.
4. Post-deployment, the
consultants will create a monitoring and maintenance strategy as per your
business needs.
Thoroughly trained
hands to grow your business:
The AWS
consulting partner and their team of experts are required to pass many
certifications and accreditations before they are awarded with the APN partner
status. You can be assured of the best services from people that have hands-on
experience in designing fault tolerant, scalable, cost-efficient distributed
structures on the AWS infrastructure. They have the capability to identify,
analyze and define what you would need for an AWS-based application. They will
assist you with provisioning, resource purchasing, configuring and customizing
as per your specific needs. They will help identify the geographic locations of
the instances for your business to reach your target audience. They offer round
the clock support and fully managed services that allow you to focus on core
business development.