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5 Reasons Why You Need an AWS Managed Services Provider

Written by Mariah McCrea | Aug 28, 2019 3:45:00 PM

Amazon Web Services has remained at the top of the cloud industry for years. As the adoption of AWS continues to rise, companies around the world are redefining their path to success. The abundant growth of technology solutions accessible from AWS and AWS Managed Services Provider Partners, brings many questions for companies: Where do you begin? How do you stay competitive? Here’s how AWP MSP Partners are a vital component to taking advantage of the AWS Cloud.

Don't be Intimidated by Business Transformation

Adopting a cloud-focused strategy requires changing the dynamic of your company’s culture and IT approach. It may seem daunting at first, with concerns about how specifics roles and departments will be impacted, but AWS MSPs are will make the integration seamless.

AWS MSP Partners have their testimonies of cloud transformation journeys, and each has the insight of their experience, skills, and solutions. AWS MSP’s elevate enterprises by driving migration from current systems to AWS and progress workloads through every stage of the cloud implementation journey.

Cloud Adoption:  Plan & Design > Build & Migrate > Run & Operate > Optimize

AWS MSPs can provide cloud adoption roadmaps and share additional resources so businesses are clear on expectations. One of the biggest benefits MSPs can offer is the assistance with navigating and implementing fundamental changes while educating your organization and employees about the values of the cloud. 

Keep the Same MSP from Start to Finish

Sticking with the same provider through your entire migration process is important to the success of the migration. All AWS MSP Partners are highly skilled at providing full life-cycle solutions. With deep expertise on AWS, APN Consulting Partners are uniquely positioned to help you achieve your AWS objectives. APN Consulting Partners establish a deep understanding of your environment and proactively adjusts the AWS workload. Having these capabilities enable enterprise customers to focus their efforts with one provider, rather than engaging with multiple providers at different parts of the journey.

AWS MSPs Adapt as Your Challenges Grow

Maximum security and compliance for assignments and applications on AWS is the most critical step for many customers, specifically customers in healthcare, financial services, life sciences, and government. These industries have their own security protocols and policies that change over time. Security automation and implementation practices are a key component of next-generation MSP practices. Many AWS MSPs build practices tailored to customer needs. These MSPs build their practices, assembling platforms that fit with AWS security best practices.

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Smart Investment for Embracing Automation

Companies that full embrace technology instead of going against the grain can respond to customer requests and anticipate their needs- gaining a competitive edge. A key factor in the success of your business is the ability to concisely develop, test and deploy new services and features to users.

There are many benefits to reap from embracing automation including saving your staff time and effort. But there are numerous advantages beyond employee time management.

Advantages of Automation:

  • Reduced personal hours
  • Reduced errors
  • Operation stability
  • Customer consistency
  • Reduced costs and overhead

Transform Your Business While Saving Costs

AWS MSP Partners do so much more than just keep your services running. They consistently monitor usage, performance, and patterns to spot opportunities to save money, increase performance, and take advantage of new software and services as they are released.

An AWS MSP uses cost management tools to determine which areas your company can save money by utilizing Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances (RIs), or analyze which test and development instances you don't need to have on at specific times.

How is this maintained? Every partner has frequent meetings with customers to review details on usage and performance, while proactively developing cost optimization strategies to cut cost and increase performance.

Engaging an AWS MSP for your cloud adoption journey will give you the resources you’ll need for seamless workflows. You’ll gain the benefits that come from using leading AWS experts.