Amazon Web Services – FW – FAQs

Our AWS experts specialize in Fargate, RDS, EC2, ALB, S3, CloudFormation, Athena, and many more.

We help roadmap and make recommendations on what a cloud native approach should look like. This includes overall cloud strategy, governance and compliance, and automating it all through IaC, terraform, CDK, and other release and delivery platforms.

We focus on a set of services that handle distinct functionality, allowing the client to scale faster on their cloud initiatives. We also bring a strong focus on resilience across services and applications. Our team excels in designing for a cloud-agnostic approach, ensuring ease of deployment no matter what cloud services we deploy.

We take stock of what technology set the client is comfortable with, then align the cloud strategy to their current technical skills. If a shift in technology is agreeable, we prioritize training up the client resources in those new areas. Maintaining rock solid documentation and best practices is also critical to long-term success. We encourage a worst-case scenario approach so that others on the client’s team are prepared to pick up and lead in the event of a vacancy.

Our consultants worked with a government entity to successfully migrate all their applications to a restrictive, GovCloud high trust environment. We also engaged with a multibillion-dollar bank whose systems required multi-region capability and IaC code. We set up an instance of a proprietary AI system in AWS GovCloud while also transitioning the platform from EC2 to docker swarm and Kubernetes based workloads. We’ve also designed and migrated multiple database systems to other cloud native services including SnowFlake, PostGREs, and Oracle.

As an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, we hold qualifications across Advanced Tier Services, the Public Sector, Amazon EC2 for Windows Server Delivery, and more. Our team holds many certifications from AWS to Terraform certifications along with multiple years of experience with AWS. Our consultants are AWS certified in Devops, Sysadmin, and Solutions Architect, amongst others.

As with all change management, we see the internal client as paramount to ensuring the project is successful. We help cloud champions communicate the ‘why’, attain buy-in from upper management, and create training opportunities for the client’s current staff. Instead of seeing AWS as a threat, this helps teams view it as an upskill.