Streamline Your End-to-End Cloud Operations with AWS Cloud Operations Competency Partners

By Frank Schwarzenau, Designation Leader, Partner Cloud Operations – AWS
By Scott Kellish, Global Tech Lead, Partner Cloud Operations – AWS
By Joanne Moore, Sr. Launch Product Manager – AWS
By Krish Kannan, Worldwide GTM Strategy Leader – AWS

Today’s rapidly changing market conditions require organizations to scale IT operations swiftly and securely, while keeping costs under control. But setting up, running, and optimizing cloud infrastructure can be time-consuming and challenging for customers.

Effective cloud operations have proven to be a great differentiator for companies of any size or maturity. According to a commissioned Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact study conducted over a three-year period on behalf of Amazon Web Services (AWS), organizations attain a 241% return on investment (ROI) with cost savings of $3.4 million with an optimized cloud environment by enabling rapid time-to-market, promoting high developer productivity, and setting up resilient and secure cloud environments.

AWS Partners have proven to be an effective path for customers to realize this ROI and help them operate securely and safely in the cloud. To support this journey, we’re excited to announce the AWS Cloud Operations Competency.

AWS Cloud Operations Competency Partners support customers across the five solution areas of cloud operations, which represent a set of essential technical capabilities that help customers set up, build, migrate, and operate securely and efficiently with an integrated approach to cloud operations:

1. Cloud Financial Management — optimized cost management for services, tooling, and resources to organize and track cost and usage.
2. Cloud Governance — plan, build, and manage hybrid cloud environments that are secure, scalable, and cost-efficient.
3. Monitoring and Observability — monitor what is happening across the technology stack at any time.
4. Compliance and Auditing — operate in compliance landscapes that are complex, dynamic, and evolve rapidly.
5. Operations Management — plan and build centralized operations management of infrastructure and workloads on AWS and beyond.

Launch Partner Showcase

The AWS Competency Program is designed to highlight AWS Partners who have demonstrated technical proficiency and proven customer success in specialized solution areas.

We invite you to explore the Cloud Operations Competency Partner offerings recommended by AWS:

AWS Cloud Operations Software Partners

Apptio
Apptio Cloudability’s flexible data platform enables distributed IT, finance, and business teams to optimize their costs and communicate the business value of cloud.

CloudCheckr
CloudCheckr delivers a unique level of visibility and intelligence to help better manage cloud costs, optimize resources, improve governance, and strengthen security and compliance with government-mandated regulations across some of the most stringently regulated cloud environments in the world.

CloudZero
CloudZero eliminates cost surprises and improves efficiency and resource usage, helping organizations innovate fast.

CoreStack
CoreStack helps enterprises optimize cloud costs up to 40%, gain 50% in CloudOp efficiencies, and achieve 100% adherence to compliance for their best practices and industry regulations, such as ISO, FedRAMP, NIST, HIPAA, PCI DSS, CIS AWS, and AWS Well-Architected Framework.

Datadog
Datadog is the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications. Datadog’s SaaS platform integrates and automates infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, log management, and more to provide unified, real-time observability of customers’ entire technology stack.

Dynatrace
Dynatrace provides software intelligence to simplify enterprise cloud complexity and accelerate digital transformation. With AI and complete automation, Dynatrace’s platform provides answers, not just data, about the performance of applications, underlying infrastructure, and experience of all users.

Freshworks
Freshservice is Freshworks’s intelligent, right-sized, cloud-native service management solution. Freshservice takes a fresh approach to building and delivering modern employee experiences and unified service management—empowering businesses to achieve efficiency, fast time-to-value, improved employee satisfaction, and productivity.

Instana
Boost functionality and observability in your enterprise application performance monitoring with Instana. Improve application performance management and accelerate CI/CD pipelines no matter where applications reside—public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, on premises, IBM Z, and more. With IBM Observability by Instana, users can combine APM with automation capabilities and distributed tracing to deploy on premise or as a SaaS solution.

MontyCloud
Reduce costs by 40%, CloudOps time by 70%, and upskill with MontyCloud DAY2, a no-code SaaS platform. In few clicks, achieve multi-account visibility, self-service provisioning, detect and fix over 300 compliance and security issues, and deliver server and cloud app management.

Moogsoft
Moogsoft is an AWS powered solution that makes sense of all your monitoring data, making it actionable so that IT Operations, DevOps, and SREs can focus on solving the problems that matter and reduce downtime.

Sumo Logic
Sumo Logic is a leading cloud-based machine data analytics service, helping customers gain instant insights into their growing and complex pool of machine data. Proactive analytics improve reliability of mission critical applications with visibility across Cloud Operations.

Sysdig Secure DevOps Platform
Sysdig is driving the standard for cloud and container security. With Sysdig, teams find and prioritize software vulnerabilities, detect and respond to threats, and manage cloud configurations, permissions, and compliance. Customers get a single view of risk from source to run with AWS services, including AWS Fargate, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), and Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS).

AWS Cloud Operations Services Partners

Accenture
The Accenture Cloud Transformation Services for AWS offering helps clients accelerate the journey to cloud, plan and architect a strategy, execute on cloud migration at scale, accelerating the creation of new business value via rapid cloud-native application development.

BJSS
BJSS’ Cloud Operations practice offers a centralized and standardized framework helping businesses bridge the gap between innovation and control. They help businesses respond to changing market conditions quickly by enhancing agility and reducing time-to-market whilst remain compliant with regulatory standards through enhanced security and simplified governance.

Cloudreach, an Eviden Business
Cloudreach’s CloudOps solution helps customers achieve the promise of cloud through continuous improvement in a greener and more agile culture to enable innovative business outcomes. Through their CloudOps solution, Cloudreach works to manage, optimize and support customers’ infrastructure in the cloud. CloudOps is delivered by cloud-native teams providing support, cost optimization, security, governance, and continuous improvement aligned with customer objectives.

CloudZone
As an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner since 2014, CloudZone has extensive experience in AWS services. CloudZone manages over 300 customers, providing value added services to improve their overall performance and meet their business goals. CloudZone’s unique customer-centric business model accelerates and drives customer business by providing a wide range of cost-free core services such as Consulting, Architecture Design, Cloud Cost Management Platform, FinOps, DevOps, Data projects, 24/7 NOC, MSP Solutions, and more.

Cognizant
Cognizant’s AWS Cloud Operate helps organizations manage and optimize their cloud infrastructure by leveraging an integrated Cloud Management Platform (iCMP), frameworks, and AWS best practices. It is designed around four tenets of governance—financial, technology, service, and security and regulatory—to mitigate risks, maximize innovation, and achieve faster time to market.

Compass UOL
Compass UOL’s cloud operations solution optimizes IT processes while accelerating development and innovation. The solution is based on understanding, managing, and improving the customer’s cloud environment so that their teams can focus on achieving business results.

HCLTech
HCLTech ElasticOps is an artificial intelligence-driven technology operations that uses smart algorithms to provide zero-touch automation of tasks and processes—leveraging the power of AI, autonomics, and orchestration to simplify IT and business operations. By implementing industry best practices to maintain cloud infrastructure, ElasticOps simplifies cloud operations, safeguards the cloud environment from threats, and reduces operational overheads. It performs all the heavy lifting and unburdens you from unpredictable monthly costs.

IBM Cloud Operations and Platform Engineering
Cloud Ops & Platform Engineering Services (PES) provides core infrastructure and platform services with automation to build, deploy, secure, and manage high-performing hybrid, multi-cloud environments. IBM Consulting Platform Services on AWS (ICPSA) complements native AWS observability and management tools by integrating them with IBM’s IT Control Tower framework with AIOps capabilities to improve mission critical, enterprise application resiliency and accelerate hybrid cloud journeys.

Infosys
Infosys Cloud Operations Services help customers build and manage the AWS Cloud, optimized for increased productivity and operational efficiency. Optimize cost management from day one by organizing cloud costs and transforming with cost transparency, control, forecasting, and optimization. Gain insights into the behavior, performance, and health of the systems. Detect, investigate, and remediate problems proactively by leveraging AI and ML capabilities. Implement compliance processes faster, and easier by quickly remediating noncompliance and improving security posture. Plan and build centralized operations management by leveraging ready-to-use templates and best practices.

Mission Cloud Services
With Mission Cloud, you not only gain a team of skilled and experienced cloud engineers, solutions architects, and FinOps and InfraOps specialists, but you’ll also benefit from specialization in AWS. Mission Cloud’s deep understanding of AWS and how its products and resources work together allows them to manage your AWS environment more effectively than doing it on your own.

Mphasis
Backed by AWS expertise and patented and multiple award-winning cognitive IP, Mphasis enables enterprises to derive insights from their data and create transformative solutions, helping them increase the pace of business in an everchanging landscape. Their capabilities help customers develop, migrate, and run their solutions on AWS.

Nordcloud
Reduce spend, allocate costs accurately, identify unmanaged resources, and eliminate repetitive administrative tasks across your AWS and hybrid environments.

Rackspace Technology
Many businesses want to realize the power of AWS and in doing so seek assistance from a trusted partner with a track record of managing business-critical applications. Rackspace can help you accelerate innovation on AWS by applying deep expertise in cloud operations.

Rebura
Rebura offers a CloudOps practice that focuses on ensuring the performance, availability, cost efficiency, security, and scalability of cloud environments by leveraging automation, monitoring, and continuous improvement.

Reply
Reply, through its cloud operations practice, is committed to providing clients with the highest level of efficiency and reliability in managing their infrastructure and applications on AWS. With expertise in delivering end-to-end cloud operations, including monitoring, automation, security, and incident response, Reply is a leading provider of cloud-based solutions and services. Reply works with customers to optimize their costs and scale their operations on AWS, ensuring that they are able to achieve their business goals and remain competitive in a rapidly changing technological landscape, while leveraging the best that AWS has to offer.

Slalom
Slalom believes that cloud is more than just a technology platform—it’s a catalyst for business transformation and growth. Slalom works with customers to define a business strategy, build a cloud roadmap, optimize the journey to the cloud, and implement modern platforms for ongoing operational excellence. Wherever you are on your cloud journey, Slalom brings curiosity, passion, and deep technical and strategic expertise to every AWS project.

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
Tata Consultancy Services offers an end-to-end cloud management platform for centralized resource management and operations.

Tech Mahindra
While deploying cloud environments can be powerful, scalable, and highly available, they need to be properly managed to ensure enterprises can derive the maximum benefits from their investments. Tech Mahindra’s intelligent cloud operations and subscription management services (iCOPS) platform for AWS provides a unified view across hybrid, multi-cloud operations for seamless operations and reduced costs.

Tameshi
Tameshi offers comprehensive CloudOps services, including compliance, governance, and observability for enterprise customers.

Virtasant
Virtasant’s optimization platform is constantly looking for opportunities to reduce cost. The solution allows technology teams to focus on what they do best—building technology—while automation keeps cloud costs under control and optimized. Virtasant cloud optimization is a full-lifecycle solution that continuously optimizes your cloud environment.

2nd Watch
2nd Watch takes a holistic approach to cloud economics and follows the FinOps Foundation’s Principles to ensure cloud environments run as efficiently as possible. 2nd Watch’s experienced data scientists and architects use a proprietary innovation scoring system to help customers identify opportunities for optimization and modernization in a data-driven way.

Xebia (formerly Oblivion)
Xebia’s Cloud Center of Excellence practice enables customers to build dedicated internal cloud teams that take ownership of cloud adoption. Cloud Financial Management starts at the procurement of cloud, and is a continuous key component in Xebia’s deliveries that ensures all cloud projects are as efficient as possible and optimized for future growth of the platform.

Customers: Learn About AWS Competency Partners

AWS Cloud Operations Competency Partners make it easier for customers to move away from siloed point solutions and adopt an integrated approach for cloud operations on AWS and beyond.

We invite you to learn more about our AWS Cloud Operations Competency Partners.

Partners: Become an AWS Competency Partner

AWS Partners with cloud operations offerings in any of the five solution areas can learn more about becoming an AWS Competency Partner.

In addition to AWS Competency benefits, Cloud Operations Competency Partners receive access to cloud operations specific technical enablement events around the world, GTM and marketing roadmap support, and access to Service Roadmap sessions for relevant AWS services.

AWS Partners looking to get their cloud operations offering validated through the AWS Competency Program must be validated or differentiated members of the Services or Software Path prior to applying.

Review the Program Guide and access the application in AWS Partner Central (log in required).