AWS Consulting Services

PS3G provides AWS consulting services for organizations that are moving to AWS, building on it, or already there and unsure whether the estate is well built or well priced. That includes a founder launching a product on serverless so there is nothing to patch, a growing company whose developers created an AWS account years ago and now need it governed, and an infrastructure lead inside a larger organization planning a data center exit. We set up the account structure, migrate workloads, build applications on AWS services, review architecture against the Well-Architected Framework, bring costs under control and, if you want, run the estate afterwards.

AWS Consulting Services: what we build and for whom

AWS has the broadest service catalog of the major clouds, which is both its appeal and its risk: there is a managed service for almost everything, and an ungoverned account can accumulate dozens of them with no owner. Our aws cloud consulting work falls into four groups.

• Foundations. A multi-account structure with identity, networking, logging, guardrails and budgets in place before workloads arrive, so growth does not mean sprawl.
• Migration. Moving servers, databases and applications into AWS from on-premises or another cloud, with a deliberate choice per workload between rehosting, replatforming and refactoring. The method is on our cloud migration page.
• Development. New applications and services on containers and serverless, event-driven integration, APIs and data pipelines, built with infrastructure as code from the first commit.
• Review, cost and operations. Well-architected reviews of existing estates, cost optimization, security hardening and ongoing management under defined SLAs.

AWS is not always the right cloud. An organization whose identity, licensing, developer tooling and applications are Microsoft-centered will often get a simpler estate on Azure; an organization built around BigQuery and Google Workspace may belong on Google Cloud. We work on all three and recommend based on your systems and your team, which is the approach described on our cloud solutions page.

What the service covers

The table lists the typical work an aws consultant from PS3G does and the AWS services involved. Service names change; we use the current equivalents.

Type of work	What it looks like	AWS services typically involved
Account foundations	Multi-account structure, single sign-on, networking, centralized logging, guardrails, budgets, tagging	AWS Organizations, IAM Identity Center, Control Tower, VPC, CloudTrail, AWS Config, Budgets
AWS migration services	Discovery, dependency mapping, wave planning, server and database migration, cutover and validation	Application Discovery Service, AWS MGN, Database Migration Service, EC2, RDS, EFS and FSx
AWS development services	Containerized services, serverless APIs and event processing, queues and streams, scheduled jobs	ECS or EKS, Fargate, Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, Step Functions
Data	Managed databases, object storage lifecycle, analytics and warehousing	RDS and Aurora, DynamoDB, S3, Glue, Athena, Redshift
Security	Least-privilege IAM, secrets, encryption, network controls, threat detection, compliance evidence	IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, Security Hub, GuardDuty, WAF, Inspector
Well-architected reviews	Structured review of a workload against the framework’s pillars, with a prioritized remediation list	AWS Well-Architected Tool, Trusted Advisor
DevOps	Pipelines, infrastructure as code, environment promotion, release approvals	CDK or Terraform, CodePipeline or GitHub Actions, ECR
AWS cost optimization and managed services	Right-sizing, commitment planning, storage tiering, scheduling, monitoring, patching, backup, incident response under defined SLAs	Cost Explorer, Compute Optimizer, Savings Plans, CloudWatch, Systems Manager, AWS Backup

How we work

AWS estates most often go wrong in two ways: an early account that grew without structure, and a migration that lifted servers without changing anything and now costs more than the data center did. Our process addresses both.

1. Assessment. An inventory of workloads, dependencies, data and integrations; a review of any existing AWS accounts for structure, security and spend; a target state and a cost estimate built with AWS’s pricing tools for the workloads in scope.
2. Foundations. The account structure, identity, networking, logging and guardrails deployed as code and reviewed with your security lead before workloads land. For an existing estate, a remediation plan that moves it toward that structure without a big bang.
3. Pilot. One or two low-risk workloads migrated or deployed end to end, with monitoring, backup and rollback proven rather than assumed.
4. Waves and builds. Migration waves grouped by dependency; application work in two-week increments with demos; a written cutover plan wherever production is affected.
5. Review, operate or hand over. A well-architected review of the result, documentation, a cost baseline, then handover to your team or an aws managed services agreement with defined SLAs.

Team and stack choices

A lead architect in the United States owns the design and your weekly conversation; cloud and DevOps engineers at our India delivery center carry out waves and builds with overlapping hours; a security engineer reviews the foundations and each wave. Everything is infrastructure as code, in your repositories and your accounts, and the pipelines are yours too; our DevOps service covers that part in depth. We prefer managed services over self-run servers and serverless over containers where the workload allows, because each step reduces what you have to patch.

Ask for an AWS assessment or a cost review and we will come back with a written proposal.

Where this fits with the rest of your systems

AWS rarely holds everything. The organizations we work with usually keep some systems on-premises during a transition, use SaaS for email, CRM and finance, and run an application estate that is a mix of .NET, Java, Node.js, Python and PHP. AWS supports all of those well, and our designs start from the applications rather than from the service catalog.

Because PS3G’s core engineering practice is .NET and the Microsoft stack, we bring a specific skill to AWS work that many AWS shops lack: running .NET and SQL Server on AWS properly. ASP.NET Core runs well in containers on ECS or EKS and as Lambda functions; SQL Server runs on RDS with licensing choices that matter for cost; Windows workloads that cannot yet be modernized have a home on EC2. We make those decisions deliberately, including when the honest answer is that a particular Microsoft workload would be simpler on Azure. Multi-cloud for its own sake is a cost; multi-cloud because specific workloads belong in specific places is a plan.

Identity is the usual seam. Most organizations keep Entra ID or another directory as the source of truth and federate it into IAM Identity Center, so people sign in once and access is governed in one place. Data platforms are the other: S3 and the analytics services around it often become the organization’s data lake even when applications live elsewhere, and we design the pipelines to feed it.

Examples by organization size

These are typical engagement shapes, not named clients.

• A founder launching a product. A fixed-scope engagement that sets up a small multi-account structure, a serverless API with Lambda and API Gateway, a managed database, a pipeline and budget alerts, so the product has no servers to patch and costs stay visible from the first user.
• A growing company with an inherited account. A review of the existing AWS account for security and spend, a remediation plan that adds structure without a rebuild, right-sizing and commitment planning that bring the bill down, and a managed-services agreement so the estate has an owner.
• An infrastructure lead inside a larger organization. A landing zone aligned to the organization’s security standards, a data center exit run in migration waves with change control, replatforming of databases onto managed services, a well-architected review of the result, and operations handed to the internal cloud team.

Engagement models

• Fixed-scope project: a defined deliverable and price for foundations, a migration wave, a build or a review.
• Dedicated team or staff augmentation: AWS architects and engineers inside your team on a monthly basis.
• Managed services: we monitor, patch, back up, secure and cost-manage your AWS estate under defined SLAs.
• Advisory: an AWS assessment, a well-architected or cost review, or fractional cloud leadership.

How we start: a first conversation, a short assessment, a written proposal.

Why PS3G for AWS work

We have built and run software for more than a decade from Wilmington, Delaware and our India delivery center, with engineers certified across Microsoft and open-source technologies and experienced on all three major clouds. We build and run our own products, so cloud cost, uptime and security are daily concerns for us rather than consulting topics. Our DevOps, security and application teams sit alongside our cloud architects, which keeps migrations that need code changes moving.

Related services

• All services: everything we build, test, run and advise on.
• Cloud solutions: our vendor-neutral view across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.
• Cloud migration: the method we use for every migration, whichever cloud.
• DevOps: pipelines and infrastructure as code for AWS environments.
• Cloud-native development: containers, serverless and microservices on AWS.

Frequently asked questions

What do your AWS consulting services include?

Account foundations and governance, migration of servers, databases and applications into AWS, development on containers and serverless, well-architected reviews, security hardening, cost optimization and ongoing management under defined SLAs. Each is available as a fixed-scope project, staff augmentation, a managed service or an assessment.

Are you an AWS partner?

We do not make partner-status claims on this site. What we can show is more than a decade of building and running software, our own products in production in the cloud, engineers experienced on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, and designs that follow the AWS Well-Architected Framework. Ask for references for work similar to yours during the assessment.

What is a well-architected review and do we need one?

It is a structured review of a workload against the pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, such as security, reliability, performance, cost and operational excellence, producing a prioritized list of risks and fixes. It is worth doing for any workload that matters to the business and was built quickly, inherited, or never reviewed. We run it in a few working sessions with your team and deliver a written report.

How do you reduce AWS costs?

With a review first, then a plan. Typical findings are oversized instances, idle resources, non-production environments running around the clock, storage on the wrong tier, data transfer patterns that could be avoided, and on-demand pricing where a commitment would fit. We make the safe changes, schedule the rest, and leave budgets, tags and alerts in place so spend stays visible after we leave.

Can you run .NET and SQL Server on AWS?

Yes. ASP.NET Core runs well in containers on ECS or EKS and as Lambda functions; SQL Server runs on RDS with licensing options that affect cost; Windows workloads that cannot yet be modernized run on EC2. We work across Microsoft and open-source stacks, so we make these choices deliberately, and we will tell you when a specific Microsoft workload would be simpler or cheaper to run on Azure.