Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), has added a category to its competency program to highlight those partners who are skilled in certain areas. In this case, it is cloud management tools.
The new Cloud Management Tools Competency identifies AWS Partners with expertise in three areas: Cloud Governance, Administration & Provisioning, and Resource & Cost Optimization.
The AWS competency program highlights partner vendors who have demonstrated technical proficiency and are able to help customers succeed with specialized solutions.
Customers can now identify vendors that help them accelerate their AWS adoption through the provision of operations and governance best practices.
AWS stated in a Sept. 13 blog that IT organizations must balance the benefits of cloud strategy, agility, scale and resiliency, with maintaining governance, compliance, and efficient use of resources. AWS Cloud Management Tools Partners have demonstrated customer success in delivering both. Their customers can manage AWS environments with confidence using a guardrails’ approach and monitoring for any non-compliant activity.
AWS identified eight vendors within the Cloud Governance area: CloudAware, CloudCheckr, Cloud Conformity; CloudHealth and Fugue Cloud Infrastructure Automation & Safety; Moogsoft AIOps. Splunk App For AWS; and Turbot.
“APN Partner solutions in the category aim to simplify management of AWS resources. They provide policy-driven guardrails to track and report on configuration changes, non-compliant resources, or actions, and alert and take action when necessary,” AWS stated. They integrate easily with AWS management tools as well as external third-party solutions to ensure cloud resource governance.
It was listed under Resource and Cost Optimization as Cloudability Continuous Cloud Spend Optimization; CloudCheckr, CloudHealth; GorillaStack and OptimizeNow.
AWS stated that APN Partner solutions in this category allow customers to gain visibility into AWS accounts and view exact workload costs, resource utilization and chargebacks. APN Partner solutions offer cost optimization and resource recommendations to customers in order to maximize their AWS investment.
Administration & Provisioning was not available.
SolutionsReview.com published additional information about the vendors listed under the Resource and Cost Optimization section in a Sept. 14 article. You can view it here.
