AWS Architect-in-Residence
Evolve and improve your AWS architecture
with expert guidance
Whether your business was born in the cloud, or is embarking on an enterprise migration, collaborating with a team of AWS Professionally Certified Architects who have designed and managed hundreds of workloads on AWS will help you reach your goals faster. Through interactive open office hour sessions, regular cadence with tech leadership, modernization workshops and architecture reviews, our experts will identify opportunities to innovate and make gains in operational efficiency while upskilling your teams and cost optimizing your AWS implementation.
Uturn’s AWS Architect-in-Residence Program (AiR) helps you remove technical debt and accelerate your cloud initiatives by embedding top-level AWS Architects on-site with your teams to share their objective experience, unique expertise and AWS best practices.
For companies that need to move fast or expand their delivery capability, our Architect-in-Residence Plus Program (AiR+) adds experienced cloud engineering and DevOps resources to quickly deliver results. Working closely with the Lead Architect, Uturn AiR+ resources execute the development and cloud engineering needed to accelerate your key initiatives.
Architect-in-Residence Program
Optimize Your AWS Cloud Architecture
INCLUDES:
- Weekly office hours with Senior AWS Certified Solutions Architects
- Regular huddle with Tech Leadership
- Guidance on architecting with AWS best practices
- Review AWS new product announcements
- Facilitate engagement with AWS Product Teams
- Proofs-of-Concept (PoC) for evaluating new AWS services
- AWS Well-Architected Reviews
- AWS Immersion Days
ADDS:
- DevOps development
- Cloud Pilots
- Limited scope projects
- On-going project management
Architect-in-Residence Program is offered in 6-month and 1-year terms.
Real results from previous AiR engagements:
- ROI realized within 9 months
- Identified and executed $1.2M+ in compute savings over 3 years (single client)
- Reduced deployment cycle from weeks to less than 20 minutes
- Increased new partner onboarding times from months to weeks
- Secured PoC, acceleration and migration funding for key initiatives
- Increased Reserved Instance and Savings Plan coverage to over 70% on compute spend
- Created Client Cloud Center of Excellence to drive standards and best practices across a global footprint
“Every time we engage, I always walk away smarter… They know AWS inside and out, give you actionable feedback, and when they are writing code, it’s top notch.”
Services Include
Well-Architected Reviews
Get on-going guidance on how to build and operate cloud optimized workloads according to AWS best practices
Cloud Security
Establish, document and regularly improve your cloud security posture
Whiteboarding & Prototyping
Design guidance for leveraging new AWS services, and building cloud native applications
Cost Optimization
Develop a program to track, report and optimize your cloud spend
AWS Support & Interface
Assigned Architect will facilitate on-going cadence with your AWS Solution Architects and assist with support escalation as necessary
Skills Enablement
Labs, game-days, classroom and ad-hoc training on various AWS services