2026 Directory
35 AWS Consulting Partners
Compare partners for migration, managed operations, cost governance, and platform-specific delivery.
Jump to firmsUse this directory to compare 35 AWS consulting partners by service fit, public credentials, and the evidence needed to qualify a delivery team. Start with your workload, operating model, and risk constraints; a partner tier alone does not establish fit.
How to evaluate AWS consulting partners
The AWS Partner Solutions Finder lets buyers search for partners by business need and shows AWS-verified distinctions such as Competencies and Service Validations. Use it to build a longlist, then move quickly from badge checking to evidence: the individual people, services, and operating responsibilities proposed for your environment.
Match the credential to the workload. A partner may be highly capable in migration, security, data, or managed operations without being equally capable in every AWS service. Ask which publicly listed distinction is relevant to the workload you are buying, which AWS services it covers, and whether the proposed engineers worked on the comparable customer engagements used to support it.
Separate build from run. A migration proposal should identify discovery outputs, workload sequencing, cutover and rollback ownership, and the operational handoff. For managed services, request a responsibility matrix that separates the provider's monitoring, incident response, security, change, and cost-governance duties from the responsibilities retained by your team and AWS.
Make commercial scope testable. Compare what is included rather than relying on a single headline fee: accounts and workloads covered, support channels, severity definitions, reporting, security tooling, change windows, third-party software, and transition assistance. A written exit and documentation plan is as important as the onboarding plan.
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Scope an AWS engagement before comparing proposals
Price is only comparable after each firm is quoting the same operating boundary. Give every finalist the same inventory, service objectives, compliance constraints, and desired decision date. Ask for assumptions and exclusions in plain language.
- Discovery: inventory sources, application owners, dependency mapping, and the decision artefacts you will receive.
- Delivery: migration pattern by workload, testing and acceptance criteria, cutover ownership, rollback conditions, and documentation.
- Operations: named services and accounts, alert handling, incident communications, patching and change management, and cost-review cadence.
- Governance: security boundaries, access model, reporting, subcontractors, and how the relationship ends or transitions.
Match AWS partner evidence to the workstream
An AWS partner relationship can cover a short assessment, a migration program, an application modernization, or years of managed operations. Those jobs require different evidence. Build one evaluation lane for each workstream instead of treating a broad AWS practice as proof of every capability.
Migration and modernization
Ask for the inventory source, dependency-mapping method, workload disposition, migration-wave logic, and the artefacts delivered at the end of discovery. For modernization, require an explicit boundary between platform changes and application-code changes. Confirm who owns testing, cutover, rollback, data validation, and post-migration stabilization. A case study is most useful when the source environment, workload pattern, constraints, and outcome resemble your own.
Landing zone, security, and governance
Establish who designs and operates AWS Organizations, accounts, identity, network boundaries, logging, policy controls, and security findings. The partner should explain which controls are preventative, which are detective, how exceptions are approved, and how changes move through code review. Ask to see a sanitized responsibility matrix and a sample architecture decision record; both reveal more than a generic security capability slide.
Managed operations and reliability
Separate AWS product availability from the provider's operational commitments. Define alert ownership, acknowledgement, escalation, service restoration, communications, maintenance, backup checks, restore tests, and corrective actions. Meet the people on the escalation path and confirm how application owners participate when infrastructure is healthy but the business service is degraded.
FinOps and cost governance
Require a baseline, a change-approval process, and a way to distinguish realized savings from recommendations that were never implemented. The proposal should say who reviews commitments, rightsizing, storage lifecycle, idle resources, data-transfer patterns, and cost allocation. Test whether the commercial model creates incentives that conflict with reducing spend, and require the provider to report actions, owners, and measured results.
For a final shortlist, compare the named delivery team, not only the firm record. Record each person's role, location, availability, relevant AWS experience, and replacement terms. Then validate references against the same workstream and operating model you plan to buy.
Frequently Asked Questions
How should I compare AWS consulting partners?
Start with the workload and operating model, then verify that the delivery team—not merely the firm—has experience with the AWS services, compliance obligations, and migration pattern in scope. Ask each finalist for a comparable reference and a written responsibility matrix.
What AWS credentials are useful screening signals?
Use the AWS Partner Solutions Finder to check a partner's public program distinctions and solution focus. Then ask which credential applies to your use case and how the proposed team has used it on similar workloads.
What should an AWS migration proposal include?
Require a workload-by-workload assessment, assumptions and exclusions, a dependency and cutover plan, security ownership, rollback criteria, and the named people responsible for delivery. A proposal should distinguish discovery from implementation and operations.
How should managed AWS services be scoped?
Define the services and accounts covered, monitoring and incident ownership, change windows, security responsibilities, reporting cadence, and exit documentation. AWS service availability commitments and a provider's operational service levels are separate commitments.
How can I avoid a partner-directory-only shortlist?
Treat a directory listing as a discovery starting point. Compare directly relevant case studies, meet the engineers who will operate or build the environment, and check references on the specific service scope you are buying.