Four ways to buy cloud with federal year-end funds

The end of the US federal government fiscal year is fast approaching. With budget left to spend before September 30, agencies need to obligate their remaining 2022 fiscal year funds. Amazon Web Services (AWS) can provide federal agencies with options to procure future cloud computing resources using current-year funds.

Read on for efficient purchasing recommendations to meet your agency’s needs:

AWS Professional Services (AWS ProServe) is a global team of experts that can help you more effectively reach your constituents and better achieve your core mission using the AWS Cloud. AWS ProServe works with your team and your chosen member of the AWS Partner Network (APN) to execute your cloud computing initiatives. The AWS ProServe team provides assistance across a wide spectrum of mission needs and specialty practices through a collection of offerings that can help you achieve specific outcomes related to enterprise cloud adoption—whether your organization is new to the AWS Cloud or looking to optimize your current AWS Cloud environment.

AWS Training and Certification offers learning paths, onsite training, virtual training, and can work with your organization to develop a customized learning strategy. From existing curriculum to custom courses, AWS can help upskill and reskill your organization for greater innovation to develop better solutions for citizens and accomplish your missions more efficiently.

Reserved Instances (RIs) are prepaid commitments for AWS Cloud computing instances like Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) or Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). RIs provide you with the option to invest upfront to receive a greater discount. With one-year or three-year contracts and several pre-purchasing options, RIs provide up to a 75% discount, compared to on-demand instance pricing. RIs can provide a capacity reservation, offering added confidence in your ability to launch the number of instances you need.

AWS Marketplace is a curated digital catalog that makes it simple for organizations to discover, procure, entitle, provision, and govern third-party software. You can find thousands of software listings from popular categories like security, business applications, and data and analytics, and across specific industries, such as healthcare, financial services, and public sector. With AWS Marketplace, you can shorten procurement times, implement the controls you need to operate with confidence, and enable your organization to unlock innovation.

Whether you’re a contracting officer, IT leader, or mission owner, our AWS Cloud experts, extensive AWS Partner Network (APN), and breadth of contract vehicles can help you take advantage of your remaining year-end funds through the procurement channel that’s right for you.

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