For many organizations, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Competency is table stakes. In fact, Canalys released a report revealing that organizations with AWS Specializations, including competencies, unlock $315 billion in customer spending. Moreover, 87% of customers surveyed ranked specializations among the top three selection criteria. For the Amazon Partner Network (APN) partners that achieve these designations, it signifies their expertise, commitment to industry best practices, and ability to deliver solutions seamlessly on AWS. For competency partners, it also presents new opportunities to leverage AWS resources to empower their customers as they migrate to the cloud and accelerate technology adoption.

Migration Incentives

An AWS Competency more than differentiates partners based on their expertise and experience. It also opens up new opportunities to support customer modernization efforts. A 2022 Canalys Partner Ecosystem Multiplier study found that for every dollar of AWS infrastructure sold, there is up to $6.40 available to partners to deliver services to customers. 

For example, Karsun achieved its AWS Migration Competency in 2021. As a result of this designation, Karsun teams could use AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) resources. This comprehensive program packages best practices, tools, expertise, and financial incentives to make cloud adoption easier. When applicable, Karsun implements these financial incentives as part of its Cloud Runways toolkit, which accelerates cloud migration through fit-to-purpose transformation playbooks. These enable incremental migrations that adapt to unique customer requirements and constraints.

Technology Acceleration

A government information technology contractor with more than a decade of experience serving U.S. government agencies, Karsun achieved its Government Competency status in 2019. The competency differentiates AWS Partner Network (APN) members serving government agencies with deep domain expertise in security and compliance, in addition to innovative cloud solutions that leverage AWS services. 

In a recent video, Karsun Innovation Center Senior Vice President Badri Sriraman shares his experience integrating emerging technology with the resources available to AWS government competency partners. Filmed at the AWS Washington, D.C. Summit Government Competency Leadership Circle, Sriraman discusses how his team used tools from AWS to accelerate Karsun’s AI toolkit, ReDuX AI. Powered by AWS Bedrock, ReDuX AI uses analysis generative AI to perform code analysis, provide recommendations, and generate code for teams working on mainframe modernization projects. To learn more about ReDuX AI, visit GoReDuX.AI.

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AWS Government Competency Accelerates AI Research and Development

Karsun Innovation Center Badri Sriraman shares his experience at the AWS Government Competency Leadership Circle at the 2024 AWS Summit Washington, D.C.

In addition to migration and technology benefits, competency partners have access to specialized training, industry events, and support from AWS experts. Partners with AWS Specializations have a wealth of opportunities to support their customers’ modernization ambitions. Overall, the partners that have obtained AWS Competencies significantly enhanced their ability to deliver high-quality AWS solutions.

Karsun is among those partners using the full range of resources available to it as it serves its agency customers.  It elevates agency capabilities through modern software development, cloud, data, and AI solutions. Its cloud portfolio offers a full suite of solutions, including hybrid architecture, platform buildout, and application migration. It has AWS Government, Migration, and DevOps Competencies and is a Well-Architected Partner. To dive into Karsun’s complete cloud solutions portfolio, visit https://karsun-llc.com/solutions/cloud-solutions/.

HERNDON, VA – Karsun Solutions announced it achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Well-Architected Partner Program status. Karsun delivers enterprise modernization solutions to federal civilian government agencies. Its software development, cloud and data solutions teams all deliver on AWS.

The AWS Well-Architected Framework helps cloud architects build and operate secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient application infrastructures. Based on six pillars, operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and sustainability, it provides a consistent way to evaluate architectures and implement designs that will scale with application needs over time. AWS Well-Architected Partners like Karsun can help customers measure the state of their workloads, recommend improvements, and implement best practices.

“Adoption of the AWS Well-Architected principles is part of Karsun’s ongoing commitment to delivering digital architecture built to last,” said Badri Sriraman, Senior Vice President of the Karsun Innovation Center.

Karsun Solutions is an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner and AWS Public Sector Partner with AWS Government Competency, AWS Migration Competency and AWS DevOps Competency designations. With AWS Migration Competency status, Karsun’s customers may utilize the company’s access to AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) resources. When applicable, Karsun implements these financial incentives as part of AWS MAP. Its government customers may also leverage Karsun’s extensive experience modernizing large, complex systems with Cloud Runways, a portfolio of purpose-built toolkits optimizing migration to the cloud. Learn more about Karsun’s AWS Practice at https://karsun-llc.com/about/partners/aws/.

About Karsun Solutions

Karsun Solutions modernizes enterprise systems enabling agencies to make the next technological advancement their next opportunity to elevate mission capability. IT solutions from Karsun are tailored to meet agencies’ unique needs and optimize operations. These solutions adapt and stay relevant with current trends while using secure, digital architecture built to last. It is a proven modernization partner whose expertise elevates agency capabilities and ensures every next opportunity is within reach.

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HERNDON, VA– Karsun Solutions, the Enterprise Modernization Experts, announced today that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Migration Competency status. This designation recognizes that Karsun Solutions provides deep expertise to help customer’s move successfully to AWS, through all phases of complex migration projects, discovery, planning, migration and operations.

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Achieving the AWS Migration Competency differentiates Karsun Solutions as an AWS Partner that provides specialized demonstrated technical proficiency and proven customer success with specific focus on Migration Delivery and Migration Consulting. To receive the designation, AWS Partners must possess deep AWS expertise and deliver solutions seamlessly on AWS.

“Karsun Solutions is proud to achieve AWS Migration Competency status,” said Kartik Mecheri, Karsun Solutions Co-Founder. “It is a perfect reflection of our work as modernization experts and our team is dedicated to helping companies achieve their technology goals by leveraging the agility, breadth of services, and pace of innovation that AWS provides.”

AWS enables scalable, flexible, and cost-effective solutions from startups to global enterprises. To support the seamless integration and deployment of these solutions, AWS established the AWS Competency Program to help customers identify Consulting and Technology AWS Partners with deep industry experience and expertise.

The Karsun Solutions Cloud Migration portfolio offers clients a full suite of services to develop and host cloud-based applications. Backed by the AWS Migration Competency, its customers may also utilize Karsun’s access to AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) resources.

AWS MAP is a comprehensive and proven cloud migration program based upon AWS’s experience of migrating a thousand enterprise customers to the cloud. The program packages best practices, tools, expertise, financial incentives, and the AWS Partner Network (APN) to make cloud adoption easier. Supporting customers investigating migration solutions, these financial incentives subsidize the three key steps in the migration process (Assess, Mobilize, and Migrate and Modernize). When applicable, Karsun implements these financial incentives as part of its Cloud Runways toolkit which accelerates cloud migration through fit-to-purpose transformation playbooks. These enable incremental migrations which adapt to unique customer requirements and constraints.

The data driven migration approach used by Karsun Solutions assesses the existing integration landscape, identifies future needs and develops future state integration architecture, with a specific focus on harmonizing information across applications. Using a proprietary multi-criteria decision support framework, the platform team performs a robust assessment of the solution identifying key characteristics such as interoperability, flexibility, SLAs and security to make an optimal selection for its customers. The framework also balances private, public and hybrid cloud options based on economics, functionality and security.

In addition to the AWS Migration Competency, Karsun Solutions also achieved the AWS Government Competency designation. It currently serves agencies including the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the General Services Administration (GSA). Karsun’s public sector AWS cloud migration case studies are available at https://karsun-llc.com/solutions/cloud-solutions/aws-cloud-migration/.

About Karsun Solutions

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Karsun Solutions is a fast-growing, innovative, enterprise modernization firm. Recently named a Technology Industry Top Workplace, its teams deliver modern software development, cloud, and data solutions to customers at government agencies including DHS, FAA and GSA. The Virginia Chamber of Commerce, Washington Business Journal, and Inc. all recognize Karsun Solutions among the fastest-growing companies in the Washington, D.C. region. An established firm with a DCAA Approved Accounting System and CMMI Level 5 – DEV appraisal, plus both the AWS Government Competency and AWS Migration Competency designations, it holds ISO 9001, ISO 20000 and ISO 27001 certifications.

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Karsun Solutions offers a portfolio of enterprise modernization solutions to federal and commercial clients. Key among these is Karsun’s cloud migration solution, Cloud Runway. Cloud Runway enables cloud first organizations to migrate legacy systems to the cloud. Karsun recently paired its Innovation Center team with one of their federal customers for a large migration effort using Amazon Web Services (AWS).

The Challenge

The customer approached Karsun to move an app to the cloud in order to reduce costs. Critically, the customer also wanted to limit the impact on business lines during the migration. In any of Karsun’s Cloud Solutions offerings, the goal is to leverage the flexibility and agility offered by the cloud to reduce costs. The approach balances private, public, and hybrid cloud options based on economics, functionality, and security. Migration teams use strategic partnerships, like those with AWS, to build cost-effective high-quality solutions.

Beginning the Transformation Process

Karsun’s Cloud Runaway leverages change management best practices. Migration teams discourage customers from building their own platforms in favor of focusing on the assets and processes already available to them. They start by identifying the processes and tools already in use. First, the team implements Karsun’s GoLean methodology. Teams identify daily process performance and health measures prior to migration. These measures are assessed and tracked throughout the migration to observe and mitigate the impact on development teams.

Once teams are actively measuring their performance metrics, tools are paired with similar cloud-native apps. The objective is to support and nurture the processes already in place. Karsun’s partnership with AWS supports the migration team’s efforts to use their own experience to select the most appropriate tools available. Cloud Runway takes a collaborative to this transition. The Karsun Innovation Center pairs one of its teams with the migration team. In bringing this in-house research and development team on board, the migration effort utilizes the latest enterprise architecture solutions.

Combining Karsun’s change management approach with strategic cloud partnerships, the customer was able to quickly migrate to the cloud with limited interruptions to their business lines. Explore our Cloud Solutions page for more including customer case studies. Contact Us to start a conversation with our cloud migration team.