Amazon Web Services
AWS services can be packaged into Cloud Strategy, Architecture, Migration, Infrastructure, Security, DevOps, Data/AI, FinOps, and Managed Services.
A strong AWS consulting practice should not simply sell individual AWS products. It should sell business outcomes such as cloud migration, secure cloud foundations, cost optimization, disaster recovery, application modernization, and managed cloud operations.
AWS Consulting Service Portfolio
Consulting Area Key AWS Services Typical Consulting Work
Cloud Strategy AWS Well-Architected Framework,
AWS CAF Cloud assessment, roadmap, business case
Cloud Architecture VPC, EC2, ELB, Route 53 Landing zones, enterprise architecture
Cloud Migration AWS Migration Hub, Application Migration Service,
DMS Server, application and database migration
Compute EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, Batch Application hosting and modernization
Storage S3, EBS, EFS, FSx Storage architecture, backup, lifecycle
Databases RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift Database migration and modernization
Networking VPC, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, Route 53 Hybrid and multi-account networking
Security IAM, KMS, GuardDuty, Security Hub, WAF Cloud security and Zero Trust
SIEM/SOC Security Hub, CloudTrail, GuardDuty,
OpenSearch Monitoring and threat detection
DevOps CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy,
CloudFormation CI/CD and infrastructure automation
Containers ECS, EKS, ECR Containerization and Kubernetes
Serverless Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions Serverless application development
Data & Analytics S3, Glue, Athena, Redshift, Lake Formation Data lakes and analytics
AI/ML Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker Generative AI and ML solutions
Backup/DR AWS Backup, Elastic Disaster Recovery Business continuity and DR
Monitoring CloudWatch, CloudTrail, X-Ray Observability and operations
Cost Optimization AWS Cost Explorer, Budgets, Compute Optimizer FinOps and cost reduction
Managed Services AWS Organizations, Systems Manager, CloudWatch Ongoing AWS administration