AllCode is part of the Amazon Partner Network, with numerous AWS certified engineers. Amazon Web Services is a subsidiary of Amazon providing on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered pay-as-you-go basis.
AWS solutions can accomplish a variety of problems and tasks including IT needs. Even smaller businesses that have a more limited scope that their businesses cover can look to find some way to upgrade their business operations through what Amazon has to offer. Though it may be intimidating and difficult to adapt to, there is more than enough reason to adopt AWS.
The Amazon Cloud can help alleviate most issues involving transitioning the cloud. Businesses of any scope can hope to build solutions that are scalable and adaptable to their industry of work. Smaller or minority-owned businesses may still struggle to stand out among bigger companies or make an AWS environment as efficient as possible with fewer funds to spend. To alleviate these burdens, Amazon has the Think Big With Small Business program available through their Public Sector partnership program.
The AWS Think Big for Small Business Program is an outreach program designed to provide small and/or minority-owned public sector organizations support in the form of business intelligence, technical expertise, and marketing strategies. With cloud-based solutions and experience, various public institutions globally have seen continued success in government, educational, and nonprofit sectors. While the funding provided can help significantly to meet business objectives, the expertise on navigating the cloud and how to extend outwards towards customers is just as critical.
As newer users adopt the AWS cloud, it can be difficult to watch for issues and resolve them as needed. AWS Systems Manager grants better visibility over the AWS environment by clustering resources, providing legible and usable data based on performance, and actions to take that abide by AWS compliance requirements and best practices. This service provides everything management needs to evaluate the cloud and ensure continued functionality.
The AWS Well-Architected Framework is a set of standards for best practices designed to maximize efficiency, stability, security, and resilience on the platform. These are some incredibly difficult standards to achieve and it is ideal to seek help from a third party to review the infrastructure. Amazon does provide additional tools for helping to verify that an environment does meet standards.
At the time of writing, AllCode recently entered AWS’ Think Big for Small Business Program, granting us better reach in the public sector. This article is meant to review what that means for our potential clients and how they can benefit from working with partners of the Think Big for Small Business Program.
While the Amazon Cloud at large is meant to be flexible in how it is applied, there are a number of services that are more directly tailored to specific industries. The financial industry for example has solutions set out to help them merge their usual operations with the benefits cloud technology can provide. It has provided many companies with the capability to adapt to new regulations and further optimize their existing services.While the Amazon Cloud at large is meant to be flexible in how it is applied, there are a number of services that are more directly tailored to specific industries. The financial industry for example has solutions set out to help them merge their usual operations with the benefits cloud technology can provide. It has provided many companies with the capability to adapt to new regulations and further optimize their existing services.
AWS might seem like a steep investment for smaller businesses that need a cloud solution. With fewer resources to expend, there’s much less breathing room for error and a greater need to optimize. Amazon does provide a myriad of ways to shave off additional costs while also making customers’ AWS environments more efficient.
Cloud infrastructure has much faster agility and responsiveness compared to more traditional IT solutions. As resources will be considerably more expendable, there will be a greater tolerance for failures. However, cloud infrastructure does require a strong combination of IT governance and organizational governance to ensure a cloud environment is both agile and safe. Finding that balance can be a significant challenge.
Understandably, AWS does require a high amount of specialized knowledge to work with. It is a highly technical platform and cloud computing is still a relatively new field of work and study. It is incredibly easy to make mistakes from both a business perspective and a technical perspective and could result in falling short of operational goals, superfluous designs, poor optimization, and vulnerabilities.
