What is AWS consulting?
AWS consulting explained: what an AWS consulting partner does, typical engagements, how pricing works, and how to choose an AWS consulting company.
Short answer
AWS consulting is professional help to plan, build, migrate, secure, optimize and operate workloads on Amazon Web Services. An AWS consulting partner assesses your goals and current environment, designs architecture against AWS best practices such as the Well-Architected Framework, implements it, and often continues as a managed service provider.
By the Celestibia Solutions engineering team · Published
What an AWS consulting company actually does
- Architecture design for new products or platforms, documented with diagrams and decision records.
- Landing zones: multi-account structure, networking, identity and guardrails.
- Migration from data centers or other clouds, planned application by application.
- Security hardening and compliance mapping.
- Cost optimization and FinOps.
- Ongoing operations as AWS managed services.
Common types of AWS consulting engagements
Assessment or Well-Architected review
A short, fixed-scope review of an existing environment that produces a prioritized list of risks and improvements across the six Well-Architected pillars.
Build or migration project
A defined project such as a new platform on Amazon EKS, a landing zone, or migrating a set of applications.
Managed services
A monthly engagement where the partner runs, monitors and improves the environment.
Staff augmentation
Senior AWS engineers embedded with your team for a period of time.
How AWS consulting is priced
Reputable partners price against scope rather than open-ended hours. Assessments are usually fixed price, projects are scoped after discovery, and managed services are monthly retainers based on the size of the environment and the support level. AWS also runs partner-delivered funding programs for some migrations and proofs of concept, which a partner can help you apply for.
How to choose an AWS consulting partner
- Partner tier and validated competencies in the AWS Partner Network.
- Published case studies with specific architectures and results.
- Engineers who write infrastructure as code, not only slide decks.
- A clear handover or managed-service model after the build.
- Security and cost practices built into the delivery approach.
Key takeaways
- AWS consulting covers design, migration, security, cost and operations on AWS.
- Start with an assessment; it defines the scope and price of everything after it.
- Choose a partner on evidence: tier, case studies and hands-on engineering.
Related questions
Is AWS consulting worth it for a startup?
Usually, for the foundation. A few weeks of senior help on account structure, IAM, networking and CI/CD avoids expensive rework later, and helps startups use AWS Activate credits on production-quality infrastructure.
What is an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner?
It is a tier in the AWS Partner Network awarded to consulting partners that meet AWS requirements for certified staff, customer engagements and validated expertise. Celestibia Solutions is an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner.
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