Cloudnexa Achieves Amazon Web Services Managed Service Partner Status Following Rigorous Audit

New MSP Status Validates Cloudnexa’s Ability to Deliver Continuous Innovation to Its Fast-Growing Customer Base

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (July 1, 2015) – Cloudnexa, an industry-leading cloud managed services provider that helps clients realize the full utility power of cloud computing, announced today that it has achieved AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP) Partner status following the successful completion of a rigorous, third-party audit. The designation validates Cloudnexa’s leadership as a managed services provider, with the knowledge and skills, business practices, and comprehensive management lifecycle capabilities that align with Amazon Web Services (AWS) standards.

Cloudnexa has dedicated its business to helping clients effectively deploy and manage AWS Cloud services. The company currently manages more than two million total AWS instance hours per month for customers across multiple industry verticals in both the commercial and public sectors. Cloudnexa’s value-added services and experience utilizing best practices to manage scalable, secure AWS services helps bring about a successful customer experience. Cloudnexa delivers managed services using a utility-based, “pay-as-you-use” model, with delivery enabled by its powerful cloud management platform, vNOC Cloud Management Platform for AWS.

To qualify for the AWS Managed Service Partner status, Amazon Partner Network (APN) Partners must meet stringent requirements including an independent audit as well as proven customer success on AWS and ongoing commitment to customer obsession. In conjunction with IT Service Management capabilities, APN Partners must also possess proficiency and establish policies around securing, monitoring, automation and management of their customers’ infrastructure, associated databases and applications deployed on AWS.

“To achieve our designation as an AWS Managed Service Partner, we successfully passed a comprehensive, third-party audit for our operations managing customer engagements on AWS,” said Joel Davne, CEO of Cloudnexa. “As an AWS Premier Consulting Partner, we believe this program brings added credibility to the partner ecosystem, and reinforces our commitment to the customer experience by ensuring specific processes are being followed. The marketplace is often focused on the competitive pace of technology innovation; this program exemplifies the level of detail and accountability within AWS’ ecosystem and why AWS is the market leader,” said Davne.

“The AWS Managed Service Program is designed to equip MSPs, like Cloudnexa, with tools they need to deliver continuous innovation around security, DevOps, proactive monitoring and end-to-end management of their customers’ environments,” says Terry Wise, Vice President of Worldwide Partner Ecosystem, Amazon Web Services, Inc. “Passing the rigorous, independent audit validates Cloudnexa’s ability and commitment to enabling mid-market clients’ successful adoption of AWS.”

Cloudnexa has leveraged its years of experience in delivering and managing AWS services to offer all of its customers access to the vNOC Cloud Management Platform for AWS. The product, delivered in a SaaS model, enables customers to view and manage their AWS environments from a single portal, allowing the grouping of assets across accounts and regions. The platform is designed to help the user take full advantage of AWS services and offer enhanced management capabilities in the areas of billing, resource management, security and governance.

Cloudnexa also offers utility priced managed services, as well as bundled Premium Managed Services with trusted partners, Sumo Logic (for machine data analytics), Trend Micro (for complete threat protection) and AppDynamics (for comprehensive application monitoring) in one cost-effective utility priced package. To learn more about deploying, modernizing, migrating, managing and optimizing for AWS, visit http://www.cloudnexa.com/the-cloud-journey/ or visit our booths at the following Cloudnexa-sponsored events:

AWS Summit Chicago, July 1, 2015 AWS Summit New York, July 9, 2015

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