Cloud consulting services

There are three ways to reduce AWS resources – by using savings plans, taking on-demand/reserved servers, or taking advantage of AWS spots. However, of course, all of these options have their pros and cons.

The logical first steps in reducing costs on AWS are downgrading the system, compressing servers, and deleting unused resources on the project. As well, you should upgrade instances to the latest version and properly size EC2 models.

If you are just beginning to use AWS resources, we recommend using a savings plan. The plan offers the lowest prices for computing resources and a flexible model to save around 70% on computing AWS powers. With a savings plan, you are given a fixed hourly rate payment, but can change the services, powers, and capacities involved; you can mix, modify, delete, and edit them. You will also sign a contract for a minimum of one year, so you cannot refuse the service until the contract ends. In addition, this model provides the lowest price on the instance in Amazon EC2 without considering size, OS, or region.

The second option, on-demand/ reserved server, means you reserve a server for business needs for at least a year. This option is less flexible, as you book a server with specific requirements like 4 processors, 10 GB RAM, etc. Once you are signed up for a reserved server, you cannot change anything about the configurations. Though, Amazon gives you a considerable discount. Keep in mind that these days everything can change promptly and your server requirements may very well change too.

The third option is using AWS spots, or unused Amazon powers. With this option, Amazon provides a 30-40%, even 60%, discount to utilize their unused powers. This option is suitable for web or mobile-based apps compliant with many tech requirements and that are designed to work with the spots. However, there is a critical point that once someone buys an on-demand server, you lose your powers and are notified that within 2 minutes you will lose the spot.

You may also address our team for cloud computing consulting for the best optimization of your AWS resources and cost drivers of computing, storage, and outbound data transfer. In addition, it is worth mentioning that once you become a client of the IT-Magic team, you may receive a good discount of around 30% on AWS hosting technology. During our cloud services consulting, we list the costs for each AWS service and server in greater detail.

You should keep cloud management in-house if you want to keep all control and management inside your organization. Otherwise, if you want to get more flexibility, receive top expertise, save your IT budget, etc., then you should definitely try outsourcing DevOps and AWS cloud consulting services.

The advantages of outsourcing include cost and time savings while you focus on key business processes and strategy instead of tech aspects. Moreover, the IT outsourcing market is on the rise and there are many destinations you can reach out to for cloud consulting services. It is worth mentioning that Ukraine and Poland provide qualified professionals and cloud architects at 40-60% lower rates than in American and Western European markets.

This is a region with lower tax rates, a growing number of tech talents, and companies with 10+ years of outsourcing experience and cloud services consulting. At the same time, you get a technical partner with top expertise to cover daily business activities, provide tech support, and ensure business continuity.

When you decide to find an AWS cloud consulting company, there is a 3-step process you should follow to make the correct choice. Start with defining your business objectives and tech needs, list the criteria, and prepare a document to evaluate each potential vendor.

In your next steps, you can search the internet and vendor listing platforms that present the top teams like Clutch, the Manifest, and ITFirms. All qualified teams are present online and you can easily get this information. With Clutch, you can select a list of potential companies via detailed search filters. Then, you may check out a team’s portfolio, tech specialization, and hourly rates in order to shortlist those that suit you best.

Finally, it is important to pay attention to the ways a team communicates, whether it is eager to add value, and if it provides a free consultation and relevant recommendations during the interviewing process. As well, pay your attention to the SLA, NDA, and other agreements before signing any contract. You can fill out all of these details in your document in order to compare the cloud consulting teams.

Our team provides DevOps services and AWS cloud consulting of the best quality and in line with mature approaches and technologies. You will receive custom and personalized services at a reasonable price. Please note that we do not simply perform tech tasks; rather, we create AWS solutions to cover your tech needs. In our first contact, we conduct detailed tech and security audits as well as an audit of your AWS account for potential improvements and cost-optimization. Note that once you are our client, you may receive a 30% discount on AWS hosting.

It is worth mentioning that 9 out of 10 clients continue cooperating with IT-Magic for at least 7 years. Typically, we start our cooperation with AWS cloud strategy consulting and architecture design, then implementation, and follow this with ongoing support. We deliver complex cloud solutions that sustain fifty-times the traffic loads and are fault-tolerant. In our offer, we clearly define the SLA and support package, which is strictly followed. Feel free to customize your support package to your business needs directly and add 3-4 DevOps engineers and/or AWS cloud architects to your company.

Please note that all the issues and critical tasks we have faced have been resolved under the defined SLA. Our reaction time to emergency calls is 5 minutes and resolution comes within 30 minutes once we have been connected with core business operations.

Within our cloud consulting services, we promise to deliver top-notch security to your AWS resources and infrastructure. Please note that we will set up a firewall inside the AWS infrastructure. This service is only delivered by 1 out of 10 other companies. Aside from this fact, to ensure your internal and client’s data security and eliminate any data leaks, all of our employees undergo lie detector tests on a regular basis.