Have you signed an agreement to begin migrating to AWS? Or are you a Managed Service Provider (MSP) with an AWS Migration Competency delivering AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) projects? MontyCloud is here to help. Our autonomous CloudOps platform simplifies provisioning, tagging, and assessing AWS resources with intelligent automation. In this blog, I discuss automated resource tagging for AWS MAP projects to save you time and maximize AWS credit attainment. MontyCloud helps you receive your expected credit reimbursement.
Migrating to AWS can bring customers big savings, more scalability, and enhanced performance. In fact, a recent IDC whitepaper shows that customers can experience 51% reduced costs of operations, 62% increased IT staff productivity, and more than 600% return on investment on their migration to AWS. AWS’s Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) is a proven and comprehensive cloud migration program that provides further incentives for both AWS Migration Competency partners and prospective customers. Refactoring and re-platforming applications is an unquestionably complex and time-consuming undertaking with many potential pitfalls, but MAP can help partners and customers accelerate their cloud migration and modernization journey with an outcome-driven methodology — and available funding.
A primary challenge that customers and MSPs face is managing and tracking deployment of resources effectively, as manually tagging thousands of newly-deployed resources is inherently a tedious and error-prone process. It is common for missing — or mis-tagging — resources to cause confusion, inefficiencies, and most importantly higher costs. Even more problematic, the typical employees that are ensuring that tagging has been done correctly are highly skilled and well-compensated talent that is better suited to more innovative, high-margin projects.
Tagging resources is crucial for effective resource management and cost allocation in the cloud — and in the case of a MAP engagement, is the only way to save time and receive the AWS infrastructure credits to offset migration costs. MontyCloud’s Automated MAP Tagging solution is designed to streamline multiple AWS MAP projects and make onerous resource tracking processes more efficient.
In less than 10 minutes, you can connect entire AWS Organizations to MontyCloud DAY2 and begin tracking AWS MAP projects, both within and across accounts. MontyCloud DAY2 can tag MAP-eligible resources missing tags and automate resource tagging proactively, allowing you to define tagging policies and rules that align with your migration project. As resources are provisioned, our platform can automatically apply the appropriate tags to MAP-eligible resources, ensuring consistency and compliance.
Tracking the geographical distribution, number, and cost of resources throughout the migration process is essential to maintain control and transparency. MontyCloud DAY2 provides real-time visibility across an AWS environment, allowing you to monitor for hundreds of resource security, utilization, and cost optimization opportunities. Whether you're migrating a single workload or an entire data center, you can easily access a comprehensive view of your resources through our user-friendly dashboards.
Getting started with MontyCloud's new automated tagging capabilities is easy. Whether you're an MSP looking to offer a more efficient and transparent AWS migration experience to your clients or an end-customer managing your own move to the cloud, our solution is designed to make your journey smoother, more cost-effective, and less stressful.
Are you ready to streamline resource tagging? Schedule a demo with the MontyCloud team today!