eBook Insight Cloud Services for AWS
By Insight Editor / 11 Oct 2023 / Topics: Cloud
Cloud solutions from AWS® offer organizations worldwide the ability to transform, innovate and scale. But too often utilization, spend, security, governance and more make cloud management a monumental challenge. In this ebook, discover options from Insight for simplifying cloud management and ensuring the best possible value from your cloud investments.
A guide to maximizing your AWS investment with Insight Managed Cloud and Insight Cloud Care
AWS Grows with you.
AWS® is worldwide leader in cloud infrastructure. As global organizations expand their use of machine learning, data analytics, cloud-native development and more, AWS has become synonymous with agility, speed and innovation.
But could your AWS cloud be managed more effectively?
Common challenges in the AWS environment:
Monitoring speed and utilization
Workloads may not be running at maximum performance or efficiency due to a number of factors.
Visibility into billing and cloud costs
Many organizations struggle with understanding their total spend, rogue cloud accounts and spend from users on corporate cards vs. the main billing account.
Securing data in the cloud
From fully understanding the shared responsibility model and staying up to date with the latest best practices to secure cloud data and workloads, there’s a lot to consider when it comes to your cloud security posture.
Excessive and time-consuming manual tasks
An abundance of routine manual tasks can drain IT resources of time and strategic focus that could be better spent driving the business forward.
Difficulties scaling and making changes
Often, an organization will find its cloud environment too complex to be able to easily, effectively scale or implement wholesale changes, which can slow or stall necessary transformation.
Insight Managed Cloud for AWS helps your team overcome these common challenges.
With the right attention and expertise, you can gain full control over your AWS cloud environment and avoid costly mistakes. Insight provides the strategic guidance needed to maximize your total business value.
AWS by the numbers
- AWS is used by 1.45M companies worldwide.1
- 85% of AWS customers only use AWS.
- AWS holds 32% of global market share of cloud infrastructure services.2
- The AWS Partner Network reaches 150+ countries.3
- AWS has 100+ data centers globally.4
Business benefits of Insight cloud services for AWS
Improved cost and utilization
Ensure budget dollars are spent efficiently and cloud resources are optimized. Insight Managed Cloud for AWS helps you adopt a Cloud FinOps framework to increase business value, reduce unnecessary costs and scale AWS resources to achieve your goals. Insight Cloud Care for AWS provides visibility to cloud consumption and costs in a simple, easy-to-use interface. Plus, it alerts teams whenever cost and usage are forecasted to exceed the limit as well as when any unusual spending is detected. Concierge support can help maximize resources and train new users.
Streamlined security
Managed support for AWS from Insight integrates threat protection and disaster recovery tailored to your needs while ensuring the ongoing operation of your business in the event of an emergency. Improve security for data, users, networks and devices and meet requirements for even the most security-sensitive industries. Our deep expertise in cloud security and governance can help you rest easy knowing that you’re covered.
Increased operational efficiency and productivity
Overcome the challenges of shrinking IT teams and oversized workloads that lead to inefficiencies and misspent resources. With Insight Managed Cloud for AWS, our experts will help manage your workloads to ensure performance is always maximized, while keeping costs in check, so you can focus on your core business.
Proven migration practices
In addition to supporting your existing AWS environment, Insight can help you keep IT teams focused on what matters most to your business while we manage your AWS migration. Avoid downtime and data loss due to inexperience and instead rely on a team of experts using time-tested methods to take on this business-critical function. Insight will ensure your end state is set up for long-term success with management and governance in place. Plus, funding may be available to help offset your migration costs.
Finding the cloud service that’s right for you
A growing number of organizations are working with managed services providers to get a leg up on the competition. Insight has multiple offerings to help you make the most of your cloud environment.
Managed Cloud gives your business a complete cloud solution designed for flexibility, security and growth.
With Insight Managed Cloud for AWS, you receive expert strategy and service delivery to help lighten your load and achieve bigger results. Managed Cloud is a great fit for organizations with big cloud plans but limited in-house resources.
Insight Cloud Care gives your teams access to certified AWS resources, tools to monitor and optimize your subscriptions, and a platform to better enable growth in the cloud and alignment to business objectives.
For organizations that would prefer to keep operations in-house, Insight Cloud Care for AWS provides tools and services to support optimal cloud performance and drive additional value for your AWS investment.
Managed cloud for AWS
Let Insight manage your AWS environment, including:
- 24/7/365 proactive management of the complete cloud estate
- Spend management and visibility
- Cloud governance
- Incident management
- Service configuration management
- Monitoring and automated event management
- Data protection management
- Patch management
- Request fulfillment
- Change enablement
- Creation of runbooks through guided workshops
Insight Cloud Care
Insight Cloud Care provides a core set of tools and services designed to get you up and running:
- Assisted onboarding to Insight’s Cloud Commerce Platform
- Cloud Success Manager
- CloudCheckr
- Spend management recommendations
- Security and operationalization recommendations
- 24/7/365 break/fix technical cost*
*At additional cost
Why Insight for AWS
Insight is a leading AWS partner that helps organizations leverage scalable and cost-effective cloud resources for greater organizational agility.
Our AWS capabilities can address your top business priorities:
- Cost optimization
- Cloud security
- Migration
- Cloud Economics Assessment
- Infrastructure Assessment
- Storage and backup
Insight is a top AWS partner.
- 4,500+ engineers, architects & tech field consultants
- 1,500+ projects delivered per year
- 25+ years of data center experience
- 400+ enterprise data centers migrated/consolidated since 2015
- Advanced Services Partner
- AWS Public Sector Partner
- AWS Marketplace skilled Consulting Partner
- AWS Solution Provider Program
- ProServe Ready
- Well-architected Partner Program
AWS Competencies
- AWS Security
- AWS Migration
- Microsoft Workloads
- Amazon EC2 for Microsoft Windows
Insight services for AWS
Our services are designed to help you reach your cloud strategy goals — whether you’re just getting started with AWS or you’re a current platform user. Insight is your partner for cloud management and strategic guidance.
Get control.
Rein in cloud costs for greater business value.
Simplify.
Relieve IT teams of excess manual tasks.
Protect.
Feel confident in the security of your AWS cloud environment.
Scale.
Change scope with greater ease.
Insight cloud optimization services
Insight CloudCheckr portal
Access the portal for unified visibility into cloud infrastructure and spend, featuring dynamic reporting, alerts and best practice recommendations.
Regular cadence calls
Consult with Insight AWS experts on optimization opportunities, best practices and scaling. This single point of contact will help remediate your AWS account issues.
AWS Consulting Services at Insight
Access Insight’s AWS engineers, architects and tech field consultants for help with:
- AWS disaster recovery, backup & restore
- AWS Cloud Foundations
- AWS Security Environment Assessment
- AWS server migrations
- AWS Migration Assessment
AWS security services
Insight offers expert guidance on the latest security, controls and compliance. Get the most benefits from AWS without compromising security.
- Cloud Security Assessment
- Well-architected review
Optimization Licensing Assessment for AWS
Insight can help run what-if scenarios to calculate the cost savings of running your Microsoft® SQL Server® and Windows Server® licensing in AWS cloud instead of on-premises.
Sources
1 Intricately. (2022). The AWS Ecosystem in 2022. HG Insights.
2 Vailshery, L. (2023, Aug. 6). Vendor Market Share in Cloud Infrastructure Services Market Worldwide 2017-2022. Statista.
3 Michalowski, M. (2023, July 24). Who’s Using Amazon Web Services? [2023]. Spacelift.
4 Slingerland, C. (2023, Aug. 9). AWS Data Centers Today: 100+ Locations, 1.5 Million Servers, and More. CloudZero.
