Step Ahead is a trusted AWS select partner, offering a complete cloud experience from start to finish. We handle everything from initial assessments and deployments to ongoing support and maintenance. This allows you to focus on your core business while we ensure your secure and well-managed cloud environment.
AWS Cloud FinOps Managed Services
Managing cloud costs doesn’t have to be complex. We can help simplify it all for you with enterprise-grade features that rapidly provide insights into your cloud usage and costs. Our Cloud FinOps Managed service helps organizations manage the financial health of their public cloud accounts across the leading hyperscalers and ISVs. We will help you reign in cloud spend while optimizing IT environments to deliver the outcomes that move your business forward.
In today’s dynamic digital landscape, understanding and optimizing cloud costs is not just a financial necessity—it is a competitive advantage, customers not only gain unparalleled visibility into their cloud expenditure but also unlock opportunities for cost savings and efficiency. This proactive approach ensures that every cloud dollar is spent wisely, allowing Step Ahead to offer more competitive pricing to our clients and improve their bottom line.
Customers’ Cloud Strategy with Unmatched Benefits
Less Risk: Safeguard your investments by minimizing financial vulnerabilities.
Reduces Risk of Capital: Safeguard your investments and optimize returns.
Hands-Free Management: Let automation handle the complexities, giving you peace of mind.
Improved Elasticity: Scale resources effortlessly to meet dynamic demands.
Invoice Management: Streamline your billing processes for clarity and efficiency.
Storage Optimization: Maximize storage efficiency and reduce unnecessary cost.
Report Automation: Get insights on-demand with automated, up-to-date reporting.
Predictability: Forecast with confidence, knowing your cloud strategy is optimized.
Versatile Customer Support: Catering to any size, from multi tenant/shared payer setups to larger enterprise accounts.
Automated Change Management: Stay agile with automated updates and modifications.
Linked Accounts: Seamless integration of all your accounts for holistic management.
Measurement and Accountability: Track, measure, and hold every dollar accountable.
Quick Onboarding: Dive in fast with a 72-hour implementation window.
No Financial Staffing Required: Save on staffing costs with an all-in-one solution.
Cost Optimization: Ensure every cent spent is a strategic investment.
Harness these benefits and redefine your cloud journey for unparalleled success!
AWS Cloud Migrations and Assessment
The Workload Migration Assessment (WMA) allows new and existing customers to assess and optimize their on-premise and cloud environments before the migration starts, based on: actual resource utilization, third-party licensing, and applications dependencies.
A licensing assessment builds an inventory of our customer’s computer resources to determine their actual utilization requirements, helping us determine the lowest-cost AWS EC2 instance size and type for each workload and tailor options specific to their environment.
Benefits of an licensing assessment in our cloud migration strategy
Right - Customer environment
Complete inventory of compute resources.
Determine actual utilization requirement.
Find options tailored to your customers needs.
Cost reduction
Configure instances to require fewer licenses.
Get the most value from existing licensing entitlements.
Maintain high-performance application.
Pay for what you need
Avoid unnecessary licensing costs and vendor lock-in.
Use Bring your own license (BYOL) instances.
Enable seasonal workloads and support experimentation.
The total cost of a company's licenses can be upto three times the cost of running the same workload on AWS Cloud.
Customers that run a workload migration assessment are 58% more likely to start a migration.
Customers that have run a workload migration assessment start their migrations 34% faster.
Ideal Customer Profile
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If you are using Windows or VMware workloads?
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Concerned about Broadcom acquisition of VMware?
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Customer’s top priorities
Cost?
Performance?
HA?
Reliability?
Scalability?
Modernization?
How this engagement happens?
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No Cost Assessment.
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2 ½ Hour Time Commitment from Customers (Kick Off/Set Up/Delivery).
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Ties in with FinOps assessment-AWS optimization and Licensing Assessment.
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36% Average Savings on Compute.