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About 2nd Watch

We help you leverage the innovation of the cloud to improve your business. We are an AWS Premier Partner, Microsoft Azure Gold Partner, Google Cloud Partner and audited and approved Managed Service Provider.

Managed Cloud Foundational Services

Managed Cloud Foundational Services provide a simplified, flexible set of core services to manage single and multi-cloud infrastructure with the opportunity to utilize premium services to control resource usage, spend, and utilization.

A Holistic Approach to Cloud Cost Optimization eBook

Developing a holistic approach to cloud cost optimization is a critical part of cloud operations and can offer significant savings to both new cloud users and experienced multi-cloud consumers.

A Holistic Approach to Cloud Cost Optimization White Paper

A holistic approach to cloud cost optimization is achieved by examining key optimization pillars, including auto-parking and on-demand services, cost models, rightsizing, instance family/VM type refresh, addressing waste and shadow IT.

AWS Redshift Optimization Check

Our AWS Redshift Optimization Check is a 2-week engagement that ensures your AWS Redshift cluster usage aligns to your unique business goals.

Misconceptions & Challenges of DevOps Transformation

There are many common misconceptions and challenges to implementing DevOps. Understanding these before you begin your transformationb is critical to your success.

Overcoming DevOps Challenges: Embracing DevOps as a Journey

Bringing together different organizations under a DevOps methodology can prove challenging. Addressing these challenges will help you embrace DevOps as an ongoing journey and accelerate the path to true business innovation.

Cloud Disaster Recovery Service

Our Cloud Disaster Recovery Service will set up and conduct a low-cost, disaster recovery failover Proof of Concept (POC) environment for your organization in less than 30 days.

DevSecOps Assessment & Strategy

Target critical areas for DevSecOps improvement - people, processes, and technology - to identify pain points between DevOps and Security and cross train your teams to maximize product velocity and create secure code.

Cloud Security Rapid Review

2nd Watch’s Cloud Security Rapid Review is a 2 week assessment that measures your cloud environment against the latest industry standards and best practices.

Gartner Report: How to Cultivate Effective ‘Remote Work’ Programs

Gartner describes the essential first steps of creating remote work programs including how to empower employees and managers to be effective, setting expectations, and stress-testing your technology infrastructure.

451 Research: 2nd Watch Carves Out Managed Service Practices with DataOps, DevOps Specializations

According to 451 Research, a managed services provider can add value to data management by addressing key enterprise challenges, such as accessing and preparing data.

Remote Desktop Foundational Services for AWS

Remote Desktop Foundational Services help you transition from standard desktops to Amazon WorkSpaces to enable your distributed workforce.

Remote Desktop Foundational Services for Azure

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Managed DevOps

Our Managed DevOps is a fully-managed service that enables your team to build, test, and deploy applications in the cloud in a continuous and automated way while decreasing your time to customer value.

DataOps Foundation

Transform your data analytics processes into a flexible, scalable data lake for centralizing, exploring and reporting enterprise data in 4-8 weeks so you can make better, data-driven decisions.

DevOps Transformational Services

Every organization’s DevOps journey is unique. Choose the DevOps transformational services for assessment and strategy, implementation, or management that align to your organization’s current state and desired progress and goals.

AMS Onboarding Accelerator

The 2nd Watch AMS Onboarding Accelerator will help you assess, migrate and operationalize your infrastructure from your on-premise datacenter to AWS Managed Services.

Advanced Database Servcies

2nd Watch Advanced Database Services provides you a complete team of experienced DBAs and cloud experts focused on your databases and infrastructure.

VMware Cloud on AWS Solutions

Our VMware Cloud on AWS Solutions guide you through all stages of developing an optimal hybrid environment, so you can take advantage of AWS services quickly with the familiarity of VMware you are accustomed to.

VMware Cloud on AWS Workshop

A free 4-hour, on-site, introductory overview of VMware Cloud on AWS and appropriate use cases that will help you understand how the VMware cloud on AWS platform can further enable your enterprise’s hybrid cloud adoption.

VMware Cloud on AWS Solution Accelerator

Educate, evaluate and develop a plan to enable VMware Cloud on AWS in your enterprise quickly, with a 4-week pilot engagement.

VMware Cloud on AWS Environment Discovery

A free 2-hour consulting engagement to help you learn about VMware Cloud on AWS, along with a brief assessment to understand how the VMware Cloud on AWS platform can further enable your enterprise’s cloud adoption.

Cloud Readiness Assessment

2nd Watch’s Cloud Readiness Assessment evaluates your IT estate to determine fitness and the best migration methodology for your workloads to shed technical debt, improve resiliency, and reduce cost.

Cloud Migration Cost Assessment

Simplify and accelerate the path from on-premises to the cloud with instance rightsizing and TCO analysis. Get an estimate of the cost to migrate and the ongoing cost of your cloud environment.

Cloud Cost Optimization

Our Cloud Cost Optimization service can reduce your cloud computing costs 25-40%, increasing efficiency and performance. This free 2-hour session will help you determine the right starting point for your optimization plan.

Continuous Integration and Delivery Pipeline

Kickstart your DevOps transformation. Accelerate infrastructure and application deployments with a CI/CD pipeline in less than 60 days.

Cloud Migration Factory

The 2nd Watch Cloud Migration Factory provides services and tools to assess, design and migrate entire data centers or individual workloads to the cloud easily and smoothly, without business interruptions.

Managed Security Services

Our multi-cloud Managed Security Services provide best practice guidance, implementation, deployment, and full management of security devices as well as remediation of identified security issues.

Security Assessment & Remediation

Evaluate your current cloud infrastructure and processes against industry security standards to develop a mature cloud security posture.

Configuration Compliance Service

Reduce risk of audit failures through continuous compliance monitoring, while saving cost and time preparing for internal and regulatory audits.

Compliance Assessment & Remediation

Evaluate, monitor, auto-remediate, and report on compliance for your current cloud infrastructure. Industry standard policies assessed include CIS, GDPR, HIPAA, NIST, PCI-DSS, and SOC2.

Managed Governance & Compliance Services

Managed Governance and Compliance Services help ensure ongoing, continuous compliance of your public cloud environment at all times, from assessment to remediation and maintenance.

Machine Image Factory

Receive a framework for automation of the image creation process that reduces the time to deploy an updated and hardened custom machine image by up to 95% and the time to implement a solution by 75%.

Top 30 Most Popular AWS Products 2019

What are the most popular AWS products used today? This infographic reflects the percentage of 2nd Watch customers using each AWS product for 2019.

Maximizing on the Cloud Opportunity

Discover the best ways through the barriers to a successful migration to the cloud and the four proven steps developed and tested for a successful mass migration for a large data organization.

Cloud Migration Process

What can you expect as you begin your cloud migration? We outline the general process and timeframe most organizations follow on their cloud journey.

5 Steps to Cloud Cost Optimization

Cloud optimization is incredibly complex. Here is a 5-step outline to making cloud cost optimization easy and attainable.

451 Research: 2nd Watch broadens reach, adds cloud-native adoption services

451 research shows customers have a strong desire for assistance in workload modernization and migration efforts. Here's 451 Research's take on our cloud-native adoption capabilities.

451 Research: 2nd Watch Aims to Provide First-Class Cloud Optimization

According to 451 Research, third-party tools are needed for effective cloud optimization. Download the report for 451 Research's take on our cloud optimization capabilities.

Top 30 Most Popular AWS Products 2018

What are the most popular AWS products used today? This infographic reflects the percentage of 2nd Watch customers using each AWS product for 2018.

2nd Watch Customer Benefits

2nd Watch clients reduce time to market by an average 100 days and save an average 42% more than when managing cloud services alone. See how clients like Yamaha, Celgene and Condé Nast benefit from working with us.

Top 30 Most Popular AWS Products 2017

What are the most popular AWS products used today? This infographic reflects the percentage of 2nd Watch customers using each AWS product for 2017.

Cloud Security

Our survey on cloud security shows that some IT professionals don’t realize it’s their responsibility to secure data and applications running in the cloud,. Find out what other cloud security data we uncovered.

Cloud Automation

Companies that have embraced cloud automation can deploy workloads faster and more frequently while recovering from failures with more agility than organizations that struggle to adopt automation.

Cloud-Native Services Survey

AWS users plan to increase spend on cloud-native services as ROI and other cloud-related business benefits are proven. Find out what areas will see the effects and which are contributing to the growth.

Top 30 Most Popular AWS Products 2016

What are the most popular AWS products used today? This infographic reflects the percentage of 2nd Watch customers using each AWS product for 2016.

30 Most Popular AWS Products – Q1 2016

What are the most popular AWS products used today? This infographic reflects the percentage of 2nd Watch customers using each AWS product for Q1, 2016.

Enterprise IT Procurement Patterns Favor Cloud Technologies

This infographic helps to understand the organizational emphasis and strategic focus of modern enterprise IT departments based on tech services consumed and spend.

Architecting Secure Environments in the Cloud

Securing the cloud means you need to design a scalable security infrastructure – one that’s able to work with new applications and services as they become available.

Big Data, IoT & Digital Marketing

Data shows Internet of Things, Big Data, and the Cloud drive digital marketing initiatives among enterprise companies, who plan to expand use of these technologies. Many plan to divert resources from other projects to facilitate.

Digital Marketing in the Cloud: Analysis of IaaS Critical Capabilities Shows Significant Advantages

Your digital marketing programs can directly interact with millions of customers, resulting in highly visible, variable, and often temporary resource demands that require reliable, scalable infrastructure.

Big Data Survey

80% of companies polled are engaged in or will soon begin a big data project, with a large portion of those companies spending as much as $100,000 on big data projects this year.

Enterprise Big Data Enablement: Risks & Rewards

Many organizations use the public cloud to address High Performance Computing (HPC) batch job needs to make better business decisions while avoiding ballooinging infrastructure costs.

Modern Enterprise Cloud Architect Profile

The Enterprise Cloud Architect requires a combination of multidisciplinary skills ranging from an intersection of instructor, strategic advisor, broad domain knowledge, business knowledge and inventor.

The Digital Enterprise: Transforming Business in the Cloud

Companies that transform into a Digital Business and public cloud-based enterprise find powerful new ways to interact with customers and gain agility from end-to-end automation that saves money and time.

Digital Business Survey

Research shows a stronger than expected connection between cloud technologies and digital sales and marketing programs. 60% of respondents say cloud tools will support digital sales and marketing programs, but issues still exist.

2015 Trends & Predictions

Research shows companies plan to increase public cloud spend by at least 15%, indicating greater confidence in cloud infrastructure and expanding budgets for public cloud workloads.

Analyzing Cloud Costs in a Standard IT Cost Model

With thousands of possible service offerings, AWS cloud pricing can get complex! We break down AWS cloud costs and billing to help you understand cloud spend in context of the enterprise technology business.

Managing Public Cloud Workloads

Enterprise IT says managing public cloud workloads is just as difficult as managing internal systems. We take an in depth look at the challenges and best practices in managing public cloud workloads.

Public Cloud Workload Management

Enterprise IT says managing public cloud workloads is just as difficult as managing internal systems and that commercial third-party tools and services are necessary to help reduce complexity with their public cloud environments.

Enabling Enterprise Adoption-Build or Buy Considerations

Many enterprises contemplating cloud deployments consider, do I build it myself or do I buy it from the professionals? To develop the right strategy you need to examine design, construction, mainte­nance and insurance considerations.

Enterprise Cloud Demand

Enterprise business units are using cloud-based services and are choosing, managing and funding them on their own rather than waiting for IT departments to create and deploy applications that can help them to achieve their goals.

Cloud Price Wars

Cloud provider price cuts drive increased investment and innovation in cloud-based projects, however survey respondents say features and performance were more important than price in choosing a vendor.

5 Keys to a Solid Cloud Foundation eBook

Discover the proven steps developed and tested for a successful mass migration to the AWS cloud.

Glue Optimization Deep Dive: Analyzing Glue Job Metrics for Performance

Learn how to set up AWS Glue performance metrics, understand their meaning, and take action to improve the metrics.

Database Migration Services for Azure

Our Database Migration Services for Azure ensure the seamless movement of your database to Azure utilizing our comprehensive database cloud transition methodology.

Database Migration Services for AWS

Our Database Migration Services for Azure ensure the seamless movement of your database to Azure utilizing our comprehensive database cloud transition methodology.

2020 Enterprise Cloud Trends

Survey shows enterprise IT remains focused on long-term organization-changing initiatives, despite pandemic-related challenges.

2020 Enterprise Cloud Trends Report

Suvey findings show COVID-19’s impact on the enterprise IT space may be causing IT leaders to adjust priorities, but they’re not backing down from big-picture efforts that can position their organizations for long-term success.

AWS re:Invent 2020 Week 3 Recap – Werner Vogels Keynote

AWS re:Invent 2020 – Werner Vogels Keynote Recap Video

7 Trends Influencing DevSecOps & DevOps Adoption

Takeaways from AWS re: Invent 2020

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