LSD Open is proud to announce that it has attained AWS Superior Tier Companies partnership standing. This important milestone displays the deep dedication by LSD Open to delivering top-tier cloud and platform providers to its prospects.
The Superior Tier Companies standing is awarded to AWS companions with a robust group of skilled and licensed people with confirmed buyer expertise. It underscores the flexibility to assist prospects’ ever-evolving wants with a excessive degree of service and experience.
The Superior Tier Companies partnership permits new channels of associate enablement to LSD Open, permitting for superior assist buildings, tailor-made answer constructing for buyer verticals and programmes that may result in extra aggressive pricing for purchasers.
This new degree of accessible sources will permit LSD Open to broaden the portfolio of cloud providers and options to prospects quickly in areas reminiscent of FinOps, AIOps and extra. This step within the partnership with AWS additionally helps LSD Open’s enlargement drive into the Center East area, the place there’s a excessive demand for superior cloud abilities and options.
To realize this partnership degree, LSD Open had set a aim of achieving extra strong cloud abilities by way of AWS certifications, which the group achieved in file time. One other requirement was a confirmed observe file of buyer success, the place LSD Open had the chance to spotlight a few of the unimaginable cloud engineering and cloud value optimisation work going down at prospects.
These certifications don’t solely show the group’s technical talent and competency, but in addition creates an atmosphere of belief with prospects, from cloud rookies to prospects with mature, advanced AWS estates.
Not all cloud migrations are the identical
The rise of hybrid/multi-cloud computing configurations and the supply of instruments reminiscent of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Crimson Hat OpenShift on AWS (Rosa) have seen many South African organisations both transfer their infrastructure and workloads onto AWS, or construct their purposes on an AWS cloud software platform utilizing cloud-native rules.
Within the former methodology, in lots of instances organisations work with a cloud migration associate and take a lift-and-shift method, the place the digital infrastructure is taken as-is and rehomed within the cloud. Whereas this method works and is commonly signed off by prospects, it isn’t probably the most environment friendly manner of migrating to the cloud and may end up in shockingly excessive cloud payments and inefficient cloud useful resource utilization, and doesn’t actually clear up something other than the situation of your workloads. There may be nonetheless work to be achieved earlier than the cloud earlier than the worth begins exhibiting.
Within the latter instance, digitally purposeful corporations are constructing their purposes within the cloud natively and have been for years, affording them most of the cloud’s benefits. What has occurred is that their cloud estates have been rising together with their enterprise and operations, and is now the proper candidate for cloud engineering for useful resource efficiencies, efficiency and cloud-cost optimisation.
LSD Open goals to assist the organisations that match each these examples to speed up worth from their AWS spend, no matter how far they’ve superior on their cloud journey. LSD Open’s cloud providers have seen a pointy improve in demand over the previous 12 months, with professional cloud engineering and cloud value optimisation providers making an instantaneous influence for purchasers. One in all these prospects, a number one monetary providers establishment, managed to shave 25% off its month-to-month cloud invoice with out sacrificing efficiency or reliability.
With the Superior Tier Companies Partnership with AWS, LSD Open goals to develop even additional providers and value-based choices which have each quick and long-term influence.
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