AWS Professional Services
- What it is
- AWS’s own global consulting organization — AWS employees, not a third party, who work alongside your team and your partners to deliver a specific outcome.
- What they do
- Large, complex engagements: enterprise migrations, cloud strategy, application modernization, security and compliance programs.
- Deliver against the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) — the framework is the method their engagements follow.
- Leave behind skills and patterns, so your staff can run it afterward.
- How you buy it
- Paid, scoped engagement with a statement of work; not included in any AWS Support plan.
- Often staffed jointly with AWS Partner Network partners rather than instead of them.
- Not to be confused with
- AWS Partner Network — third-party firms; ProServe is AWS itself.
- AWS IQ — individual certified freelancers for small, short projects.
- AWS Managed Services (AMS) — ongoing operation of your environment; ProServe delivers a project and leaves.
- AWS Support — help with the services themselves, not hands-on delivery.
- Exam signal
- “Large enterprise migration, need AWS experts working with our team” → AWS Professional Services.