Fordway Managed Services
AWS Tenancy Assessment
We can help you unlock the latest technologies of AWS
If your organisation is currently using AWS IaaS and PaaS and do not believe you are getting the best return from your investment then you need this service from Fordway.
Fordway’s AWS Assessment service reviews all or defined subsets of an organisations’ current AWS environment to identify where cost savings and efficiency gains can be made from optimising the environment.
Fordway have worked with multiple business types and sectors and bring a detailed understanding of the entire breadth of AWS offerings and hybrid solutions.
As part of the service Fordway can also plan and create business cases for the use of certain features, yet to be implemented within the organisation. Using our strategy and business orientated consultants and technical resources Fordway will provide detailed reports on the business benefits both projected and realised at the end of any deployment or migration.
Download the AWS Tenancy Assessment full Service Description
Key Benefits
Increased Business Understanding
The business will understand where improvements/changes are required to assist with operation and security.
Collaborative Approach
We work to help your organisation improve, Fordway’s assigned staff will work alongside your IT staff and third parties collaboratively, to use exisiting skills to ensure the best outcome.
Take advantage of emerging technologies
Use Fordway’s experience of the appropriate new tools and applications available to improve business performance.
Detailed knowledge of management tools
Fordway have extensive knowledge of the AWS management tools, including CloudWatch, Guard Duty and Security Hub. These can be configured to deliver the necessary statistics and dashboard for each organisation and used as part of the assessment.
Independent
Fordway will provide independent feedback on the benefits and limitations of the Azure solutions as well as enhance them.
Clear Recommendations
Fordway will produce a set of costed recommendations and options on how to get the best out of your AWS cloud investments and any changes needed.
Fordway offers over 30 years of experience advising and delivering IT infrastructure and IT service delivery change to complex enterprises.
Foldaway’s consultancy can help inform your strategy and review the options relevant for your organisation with advice aligned to your business requirements.
3 step assessment
A typical scope and process for an AWS tenancy review includes…
Data Collection
Initial workshop with Customer IT team to understand current AWS environment, application, server and storage configuration and dependencies.
Following this Fordway will initially require read-only access via AWS IAM into AWS tenancy/subscriptions to understand the current environment, see what is installed and how it is configured. Please download the full Service Description for a full breakdown on the data collected in this initial stage.
Analysis
Once we have a minimum of 2 week’s data in we will run the analytics using Fordway developed scripts and the standard capabilities of Cloudwatch, Guard Duty and Security Hub. Please download our Service Description for a full breakdown of what the analysis includes.
Reporting
Report and presentation detailing findings, recommendations and rationale for the recommendations.
Detail of any change proposals we recommend from the analysis, together with budgetary costs, timescales and dependencies to implement them.
HLD for any changes we recommend need to be implemented.
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AWS Tenancy Assessment FAQs
What does the service provide?
Fordway’s AWS Assessment service reviews all or defined subsets of an organisations’ current AWS environment to identify where cost savings and efficiency gains can be made from optimising environment. Examples of the elements we review are the following:
- Check for appropriate EC2 instance family selection and sizing for assigned instance workload
- Performance analysis of servers and storage to ensure that data is on appropriate storage tier
- Review VPC configuration and inter-VPC routing and security
- Understand access, authentication and management for operations staff and users
- Identify transaction based PaaS services, current charging tiers and validity
- Understand server and environment workload patterns to review automation, scaling and suspend/shutdown options
What does the service provide?
Fordway’s AWS Assessment service reviews all or defined subsets of an organisations’ current AWS environment to identify where cost savings and efficiency gains can be made from optimising environment. Examples of the elements we review are the following:
- Check for appropriate EC2 instance family selection and sizing for assigned instance workload
- Performance analysis of servers and storage to ensure that data is on appropriate storage tier
- Review VPC configuration and inter-VPC routing and security
- Understand access, authentication and management for operations staff and users
- Identify transaction based PaaS services, current charging tiers and validity
- Understand server and environment workload patterns to review automation, scaling and suspend/shutdown options
What does onboarding involve?
- Provide a combination of Project Manager, Account Manager, Relationship Manager, Lead Consultant and appropriate consultancy team, depending on the scope of the engagement. Fordway will generally seek to provide a peering alignment with the customer.
- Agree and formalise Non-Disclosure Agreements
- Review the customer requirements and determine the contractual requirements
- Agree the scope of the engagement with the customer and provide a Project Initiation Document which will define the engagement.
- Schedule work
- Commence engagement
- Provide deliverables
- Complete engagement
Does this service suit any sized business?
A typical scope and process for an AWS tenancy review is for mid-sized enterprises with 20-100 AWS instances. If you are unsure please contact our team to find out if we are able to help.