What is an AWS Consulting Partner?

An AWS Consulting Partner is a professional services firm that helps customers design, architect, build, migrate, and manage their workloads on AWS. Partners are evaluated on technical certifications, customer references, and revenue through the AWS Partner Network (APN) tiered program: Select, Advanced, or Premier.

What are the requirements to become an AWS Consulting Partner?

Requirements for AWS Consulting Partner status include: minimum number of AWS certifications held by staff (varies by tier), demonstrated customer experience with AWS projects, technical competency validations, annual APN fee, and meeting AWS's performance standards. Higher tiers require more certifications and proven customer success.

What services does an AWS Consulting Partner provide?

AWS Consulting Partners provide cloud migration strategy, AWS architecture design, DevOps and CI/CD implementation, cost optimization consulting, managed AWS services, application modernization, data analytics solutions, security compliance, and training for in-house teams on AWS best practices.

Why should you work with an AWS Consulting Partner?

Working with an AWS Consulting Partner provides access to certified AWS expertise, best practice implementations, faster project delivery, cost optimization recommendations, and support throughout the cloud journey. Partners have direct access to AWS technical resources and are vetted for competency and customer satisfaction.

How Eternal Web Became an AWS Consulting Partner

July 20, 2018 / Nirav Shah

As you all know that Eternal Web Pvt Ltd is an AWS consulting partner. It is a very interesting and exciting journey to venture into the ecosystem of AWS services and claim a name for oneself.

It all started back in the spring of 2017 when one of our projects demanded high scalability. We are very good at developing custom scalable solutions and very pleased to admit it. At the very starting of that project, we had known that traditional hosting services wouldn’t be able to suffice the needs of the software that we were going to build. To meet requirement of our project we started a recruitment drive of AWS certified professionals, but it was unsuccessful as AWS is still in its infancy in India and there aren’t many qualified professionals in the field.

Since we have been in the IT industry and the domain of custom software development for over 10 years, from our extensive IT experience and knowledge we knew that we have to adopt AWS and its various products to make sure our custom built software runs smoothly and the clients are happy. To help us realise this vision, the team at Eternal worked very hard. We cracked the first AWS certification and our journey started for a partnership with AWS.

AWS being global leader in cloud computing, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and packaged software as a service (SaaS) has set very high standard and is very picky to select its partner. The following are its requirements for partnership to become an AWS consulting partner:

What Are the AWS Consulting Partner Requirements?	Key Metrics That Define AWS Consulting Partner Status
Program Fee	$2,500/year
AWS Public Customer References	2
AWS Technical Professional Accreditations or Instructor-Led Training Attendees	2
AWS Business Professional Accreditations	2
Associate Level Certifications	2
Associate Level Certifications	>$1,000/month
AWS Support	Developer+

If you are reading this blog then it is very likely that you must be looking an AWS consulting partner in India, who can help you design, develop, market a custom software and manage your IT infrastructure at the same time so that you can focus on what is important for you: “Your Users”.

Team Eternal can help anyone with their AWS expertise which is continuing to grow with each day:

– Compute: Foundational cloud services that provide you with all the computing power you will ever need. Specifically EC2, EC2 Container Service, Lightsail, Elastic Beanstalk, Lambda and Batch
– Storage: An Amazon cloud storage service that offers a reliable, scalable, and secure place for your data. Specifically S3, EFS, Glacier and Storage Gateway.
– DataBase: AWS offers a robust choice of database services to fit your application requirements. Specially RDS, DynamoDB, DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX), ElastiCache and Redshift.
– Networking & Content Delivery: A collection of foundational Amazon Networking services like VPC, CloudFront, Direct Connect and Route 53.
– Migration: An AWS service that allows you to migrate your apps, services, and databases to AWS. They can help you with Migration Hub, Application Discovery Service, Database Migration Service, Server Migration Service, Snowball, Snowball Edge and Snowmobile.
– Developer Tools: AWS services that are designed to enable DevOps to rapidly and safely deliver software. Some of them are CodeStar, CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline , X-Ray and AWS Command Line interface.
– Management Tools: AWS Management Tools for IT administrators, systems administrators, and developers. The major players being CloudWatch, CloudFormation, CloudTrail, Config, OpsWorks, Service Catalog, Trusted Advisor, Managed Services and Personal Health Dashboard.
– Security, Identity & Compliance: Security and specifically cloud security at AWS is the highest priority. Team Eternal will help you with Artifact, Certificate Manager, Cloud Directory, CloudHSM, Directory Service, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Inspector, Key Management Service (KMS), Organizations, AWS Shield and Web Application Firewall (WAF).

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Nirav Shah

Nirav Shah is the Director of Eternal Web Pvt Ltd, an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner and certified Odoo Partner based in the UK. With over a decade of experience in cloud computing, digital transformation, and ERP implementation, Nirav helps enterprises adopt the right technology to solve complex business challenges. He specialises in AWS infrastructure, Odoo ERP, and web development solutions for businesses across the UK and beyond.