You’ve migrated to AWS - now what?
Cost Management
It’s easy to overspend in AWS. Visibility, management, and optimization of costs is critical to avoiding surprises on your next monthly bill.
Do you still need that EC2 Instance you spun up last month?
Did you provision a Reserved Instance to save costs on a high usage machine?
Did you over-provision CPU? Could you downgrade an instance and save costs, or does it need performance?
Can you track and chargeback cost to internal and external customers with confidence?
Security Best Practices
Properly configured, AWS is more secure than data center environment. Improperly configured, you are at risk. How confident are you in your infrastructure?
Have you setup IAM policies to follow principles of least privilege?
Are roles clearly defined and managed?
Are your resources properly accessible to the right resources and users?
Do you have the visibility to know if something is a risk?
Managing the cloud can be challenging…
Kickdrum has partnered with Ingram Micro in a distributor-reseller agreement to provide the scale, tools, and expertise you need to succeed in AWS.
Continuous advisory on stability, scalability, recoverability, and cloud best practices
Kickdrum is an AWS Advanced Partner and Solution Provider, providing expertise, oversight, and actionable recommendations.
Account visibility, cost optimization, and compliance reports
CloudCheckr is a a leading cloud visibility solution with automated cost optimization and AWS best practice recommendations.
The premier AWS distributor for North America
Ingram Micro brings scale, value-added services, and automated processes to efficiently deliver solutions to AWS customers.
AWS Solution Provider
Continuous advisory on AWS stability, scalability, recoverability, and cloud best practices.
Monthly expert review and recommendation
Kickdrum analysts review CloudCheckr results on a monthly basis to contextualize and prioritize recommended actions.
Monthly governance review meetings highlight spend trends, recommended cost optimization and compliance activities.
Expert advice with advisory for stability, scalability, recoverability, and cloud best practices.
Discounted development and Center of Excellence services
Complimentary team skills assessments by AWS Experts.
Discounts on training services provided by AWS Training Experts and Ingram Micro training programs.
Discounts on additional Kickdrum Services, including:
Risk and maturity assessments
Strategy and advisory Services
Custom / directed development programs
Account visibility, cost optimization, and compliance reports
Monthly reporting of cost savings opportunities
Idle/unused instances
Overprovisioned instances
Reserved and Spot Instance savings recommendations
Improved resource management visibility
Simple to understand resource reporting
Consolidated utilization reporting and alerts
Customer cost tracking and billing
Customer-level asset tracking and cost reporting
Invoice generation capabilities for asset billing
Security and Compliance Monitoring
IAM roles and permissions best practices reporting
Asset visibility and security configuration monitoring and alerts
Automated remediation for many compliance issues
Standard compliance audits across 35 industry standards including NIST, HIPAA, PCI DSS
How It Works
Moving your AWS account to a Kickdrum reseller account takes about one month
AWS Consent to Assign Form
After review by AWS, a Consent to Assign (CTA) form is sent for review.Baselining
A final export of cost and usage reporting is taken for historical records.Signature
The customer performs final review and signs the agreement.Distributor Assignment
After signature, Ingram is assigned as the distributor to enable benefits.Configuration
Kickdrum updates account details (e.g., billing preferences) and configures CloudCheckr for customer and Kickdrum use.Invoicing
Kickdrum invoices customers monthly on Net-30 payment terms.
Roles & Responsibilities
Customer
Provision all AWS infrastructure and systems.
Review Kickdrum recommendations, validate business considerations, and take remediation actions as appropriate.
Discuss cloud infrastructure plans with Kickdrum during monthly meetings.
Kickdrum
Setup CloudCheckr for use with customer account(s), provision additional accounts as necessary for billing structure.
Configure CloudCheckr for customer users and Kickdrum analysts.
Enable compliance monitoring and alert mechanisms, including appropriate industry standards.
Review Cloudcheckr reports and inventory on a monthly basis and prioritize recommended actions.
Provide advice and best practice recommendations on cloud infrastructure plans as identified by customer.
AWS Support
AWS-Led Support: provides L1/L2 support regarding technical issues. Not responsible for architectural oversight or recommendations.
