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Explore AWS's Self-Guided Tours

AWS and Carahsoft have partnered together to provide a series of self-guided tours of AWS's products and features. Similar to a live demo, the self-guided tours explores how AWS's products and features applies to a specific technology vertical such as MultiCloud.

 

Learn about AWS's benefits, watch a short pre-recorded demo video, and download related resources. If interested in furthering the conversation, you can also schedule a live demo with a AWS expert from Carahsoft. Start a Self-Guided Tour now by selecting one below: 

 

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AWS MultiCloud Self-Guided Tour

AWS Hybrid and MultiCloud solutions simplify infrastructure and application management across AWS, on-premises and other cloud platforms. These solutions offer a consistent AWS experience for secure, compliant and observable operations across hybrid environments, including data analytics services for insights from diverse data sources. With AWS management and governance services, IT complexity is reduced through a unified control plane, automation of processes like VM updates and patching, enhanced visibility and control and automated compliance reporting with AWS Configuration.


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AWS Marketplace

AWS Marketplace is the #1 CSP Marketplace for both Public and Private Sector. The AWS Marketplace is a curated digital catalog for the discover, acquisition and deployment of 3rd party solutions hosted on AWS Cloud. Carahsoft piloted and launched the first Distribution program for AWSMP in 2021. This program allows our Public Sector customers to leverage their preferred channel partner in partnership with Carahsoft’s Government contract vehicles in streamlining the acquisition process of software and services. Carahsoft supports over 120 independent software vendors within the AWSMP with an active rapid response team to facilitate the onboarding of additional partners per the request of our customers and partners.

Benefits:

  • The AWSMP offers consolidated billing features to provide customers with a single, digestible dashboard of their IT procurements including AWS Cloud and 3rd party solutions procured via AWSMP.
  • IAM Permissions also provide our customers the ability to regulate who can procure via the AWSMP within their organization giving procurement controls to necessary parties and cutting down “Shadow IT”.
  • The AWSMP can cut down solutions procurement times by up to 40% by leverage existing cloud budgets supporting AWS. In parallel, the AWSMP offers “Private Offer features” which replicate traditional sales quotes that include terms of Government Contract Vehicles (EX: GSA, NASPO, etc.) to maintain procurement rules and regulations.
  • The AWSMP at scale with AWS Cloud adoption has the potential to reduce the total cost of use of AWS Cloud infrastructure through strategizing Enterprise Discount Plans with Carahsoft and our partners.
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Amazon QuickSight

Amazon QuickSight is a business intelligence dashboard that connects customer's raw expenditure data (CUR) and presents it in an easy to read and informative dashboard. These dashboards can be fine tuned for granularity and custom metrics allowing for automated data management and eliminating the need for third party resources. These dashboards can display custom metrics such as reserved instance utilization, cost forecasting, billing metrics of a specific linked account, and much more. Conveniently, all intuitive graphs and displays can be converted into Excel or .CSV files for data manipulation or compliance purposes. These dashboards are relatively inexpensive and include both pay per use pricing as well as a subscription. The dashboard can be viewed by users outside of the AWS Organization.

Benefits:

  • Data Visualization: Amazon QuickSight allows users to create interactive and visually appealing dashboards, making it easier to understand complex data through charts, graphs, and other visual elements.
  • Cost Optimization: QuickSight helps in analyzing expenditure data and identifying cost-saving opportunities by providing insights into spending patterns, reserved instance utilization, and cost forecasting.
  • Customization: Users can fine-tune dashboards to suit their specific needs, allowing for granularity and the inclusion of custom metrics, which makes it a versatile tool for various business use cases.
  • Self-Service BI: QuickSight enables non-technical users to create and share dashboards without requiring assistance from IT or data professionals, promoting self-service business intelligence.
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Amazon Q

Amazon Q is a generative AI powered assistant. Q goes beyond the capabilities of GPT as it understand's your company information, code, and system. In addition, Amazon Q is secure and personalizes interactions based on your role and permissions. Q can help you from problems such as compliance questions all the way to disecting your code. Amazon Q is billed monthly at only $20-$25 and is essential to any working professional that uses the AWS Console.

Benefits:

  • Deep AWS Expertise: With Amazon Q Builder, you gain access to a comprehensive AWS expert that has been trained on over 17 years' worth of AWS knowledge and experience.
  • Efficient Code Assistance: Amazon Q Builder integrates seamlessly into your integrated development environment (IDE) and understands your code. It can help with debugging, testing, and optimizing your code. Developers can ask for code fixes, unit test suggestions, and even receive recommendations for code optimization. This accelerates the development process and ensures code quality.
  • Personalized Application Optimization: Amazon Q Builder provides personalized guidance for optimizing and troubleshooting applications. It assists in selecting the right AWS resources and services, analyzes network connectivity issues, and diagnoses configuration errors. This personalized support helps streamline application performance and reliability.
  • Streamlined Feature Development: Amazon Q Builder can accelerate feature development by generating step-by-step plans for new features in Amazon CodeCatalyst. It simplifies the development process by automating coding tasks, code reviews, and deployment. This means faster time to market and more efficient feature rollouts.
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Amazon Connect

Amazon Connect is a managed omnichannel cloud contact center that helps businesses of any size deliver customer service at a low cost. Amazon Connect allows companies to stay ahead of customer expectations by rapidly delivering improvements to their customer experience. Connect can turn data into action to understand customer sentiment, assess agent performance, and optimize workforces. Connect is also an open platform that can integrate with other enterprise applications, such as Salesforce and other AWS services.

Benefits:

  • Cost effective when compared with traditional contact center systems.
  • Scalability: Allows scaling your contact center if you expand your workforce.
  • Ease of Use: Set up an omnichannel contact center with a few clicks to get agents contacting customers through calling or messages.
  • Real-time Analytics: Users are provided a real-time dashboard and historical metrics.
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AWS Resilience Hub

AWS Resilience Hub is a central location in the AWS Console for you to manage and improve the resilience posture of your applications on AWS. AWS Resilience Hub enables you to define your resilience goals, assess your resilience posture against those goals, and implement recommendations for improvement based on the AWS Well-Architected Framework. Within AWS Resilience Hub, you can also create and run AWS Fault Injection Service (AWS FIS) experiments, which mimic real-life disruptions to your application to help you better understand dependencies and uncover potential weaknesses.

AWS Resilience Hub provides you with the services and tooling you need to continuously strengthen your resilience posture, all in a single place.

Benefits:

  • Reduce Outages: Continuously validate and track application resilience to reduce outages.
  • Evaluate resilience targets: Evaluate resilience targets (Recovery Time Objective and Recovery Point Objective).
  • Proactive issue management: Identify and resolve issues before they occur in production.
  • Optimize continuity: Optimize business continuity while reducing recovery costs.
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AWS HealthOmics

AWS Health Omics is an AI/ML purpose-built service that helps healthcare and life science organizations and their software partners store, query, and analyze genomic, transcriptomic, and other omics data and then generate insights from that data to improve health. It supports large-scale analysis and collaborative research.

Benefits:

  • Autoscaling: Automatically provisions and scales the underlying infrastructure so more time can be spent on research.
  • Raw Data: Allows the importing of raw genomic frequency files.
  • Innovation: Allows the use of large-scale analysis and collaborative research by scaling the underlying infrastructure.
  • Insights: Generate insights from the data provided, allowing your infrastructure to improve health.

AWS Benefits Snapshot:

 

  • Simplify infrastructure management with a single control panel that operates in your hybrid or multicloud environments.
  • Centralize application monitoring and gain insights into the behavior, performance and health of resources running in hybrid or MultiCloud environments.
  • Analyze security data automatically from AWS, SaaS providers, on premise and other cloud sources so you can improve the protection of your workloads, applications and data.