Amazon Web Services (AWS) gives your business almost unlimited room to scale. However, AWS is only effective if it's architected, secured, and managed correctly. IS&T Consulting Group provides AWS consulting and managed services that take your organization from the initial stages of cloud strategy all the way through to migration, optimization, and 24/7 operations. We've been solving complex IT problems for Houston and nationwide businesses alike since 1997, and we bring that same expertise and discipline to how we design and run environments on AWS.
Whether your organization is moving its first workload to the cloud, cleaning up an AWS account that's grown expensive and hard to manage, or looking for a long-term partner to operate its platform, our certified consultants meet your business where it is and build a plan around your goals.
As a full-service AWS consulting company, we cover the entire lifecycle of your organization’s cloud environment. Partner with us for a single project or full management of your systems:
AWS Cloud Migration - Assessment, planning, and execution to move applications, databases, and infrastructure to AWS with minimal downtime.
AWS Architecture & Well-Architected Reviews - Environments designed (or reviewed) against the AWS Well-Architected Framework's six pillars for reliability, security, performance, cost, and sustainability.
AWS Managed Services - 24/7 monitoring, patching, backup, incident response, and optimization of your AWS environment by our operations team.
AWS DevOps & Platform Engineering - CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, containers, and EKS/Kubernetes, allowing your business to ship faster and more safely.
AWS Cloud Security - IAM, network segmentation, encryption, logging, and continuous compliance to keep workloads protected.
AWS Cost Optimization & FinOps - Right-sizing, savings plans, and governance to cut waste and make your AWS bill predictable.
Plenty of providers can spin up an EC2 instance. Fewer can align cloud decisions to how your specific business actually runs. IS&T has done exactly that for 2,400+ clients across 1,800+ projects for more than three decades, spanning industries such as healthcare, finance, retail, oil & gas, and technology.
Vendor-neutral advice - We recommend the right AWS services, and only those that your business actually needs.
Certified, senior consultants - Your organization’s environment is designed by experienced engineers.
Business-first approachability - We translate cloud complexity into outcomes and costs your leadership can understand an act on.
One partner for the whole stack - Beyond AWS, IS&T also covers security, DevOps, networking, staffing, and support.
U.S.-based, Houston-headquartered - Responsive support from a team you can actually reach, serving clients nationwide.
A successful migration is 80% planning. IS&T begins by inventorying your applications and dependencies, then chooses the right path for each workload (rehost - lift-and-shift, replatform, or refactor) based on cost, risk, and value. Your organization gets a clear migration plan, a fixed scope, and a rollback strategy before production is impacted. Learn more on our cloud migration services page.
Once your business is set up on AWS, keeping it optimized is a time-consuming process. Our managed services provide a team that watches your environment around the clock, including proactive monitoring and alerting, patching and updates, backup and disaster recovery, security operations, and ongoing cost and performance tuning. Your organization gets enterprise-grade operations without hiring an enterprise-sized team, backed by clear service level agreements (SLAs) and monthly reporting.
Unsure whether your AWS setup is secure, reliable, and cost-efficient? A Well-Architected Review measures your organization’s environment against AWS best practices across operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and sustainability. Our team provides a prioritized findings report with specific, actionable remediations. We can also implement the fixes on your behalf or work alongside your team.
AWS bills can climb quietly by way of idle resources, oversized instances, forgotten environments, and unused storage. IS&T’s FinOps approach combines quick technical wins (right-sizing, scheduling, storage tiering, reserved and savings plans) with governance (tagging, budgets, and alerting) so costs stay manageable long after implementation. Many clients often fund their entire engagement from the savings we find. See our cloud cost optimization/FinOps services. (link)
IS&T’s AWS consultants work across regulated and fast-moving industries, including healthcare, financial services, retail and e-commerce, energy and oil & gas, professional services, and technology/SaaS companies. If your workloads carry compliance requirements such as HIPAA, PCI DSS, or SOC 2, our team can build those controls into the architecture from day one.
Every engagement follows a proven, low-risk path:
1. Assess - We review your goals, current environment, and workloads, and define scope and success criteria.
2. Design - We architect the target AWS environment for security, reliability, and cost, and present the plan and timeline.
3. Migrate/Build - We execute in controlled phases with testing and rollback at each step.
4. Optimize - We tune performance, security, and cost against the Well-Architected Framework.
5. Manage - Optionally, we operate and continuously improve your environment 24/7.
What does an AWS consulting company do?
An AWS consulting company helps your business plan, build, secure, and run workloads on Amazon Web Services. This includes cloud strategy, migrating existing applications to AWS, designing Well-Architected environments, automating deployments with DevOps, hardening security, and keeping monthly AWS costs under control. IS&T delivers all of these as either a one-time project or an ongoing managed partnership.
Do you offer AWS managed services as well as one-time consulting?
Yes. Many clients start with a migration or architecture project and then move to our AWS managed services, in which our team monitors, patches, secures, and optimizes your organization’s AWS environment 24/7. With the support of IS&T, your internal staff can focus on achieving business goals rather than infrastructure.
How long does an AWS cloud migration take?
It depends on the number and complexity of your business’s workloads. A single application lift-and-shift can take a few weeks, while a multi-application, multi-account migration with re-architecture can span several months. IS&T begins every engagement with a discovery and assessment phase that gives your team a realistic timeline and fixed scope before any migration work starts.
Is IS&T an AWS Partner?
Our consultants hold AWS certifications, and we operate as a vendor-neutral firm, which means we recommend the right AWS services for your goals rather than upselling licenses your business may not actually need.
How much do AWS consulting services cost?
Pricing depends on scope. Assessments and Well-Architected reviews are typically a fixed fee, while migrations are scoped per project, and managed services are billed monthly based on the size of your environment. Contact us at 713-622-3443 for a proposal tailored to your workloads.
Do you work with companies outside of Houston?
Yes. IS&T Consulting Group is headquartered in Houston, Texas and has supported clients since 1997. We deliver AWS consulting and managed services to organizations in Houston locally and across the United States remotely.
Ready to make AWS work harder for your business? Call IS&T Consulting Group at 713-622-3443 or request a proposal, and we'll map out the right next step, from a quick Well-Architected review to a full migration, to a managed-services partnership.
