allOps is now an AWS Cloud Operations Competency Partner. This Competency covers the five solution areas that decide whether a cloud environment stays governable as it grows:

Cloud Governance, Cloud Financial Management, Monitoring and Observability, Compliance and Auditing, and Operations Management.

DevOps is about how software gets built and shipped. Cloud Operations is about what happens for the years afterwards, when the environment has to stay secure, affordable and auditable while it grows.

To get this one, we had to go through technical validation against AWS best practices and then provide live customer engagements. We supplied named clients, real architectures, and documented outcomes.

AWS has validated our ability to help customers set up, build, migrate and operate securely and efficiently, with an integrated approach rather than five separate practices bolted together.

“Running other people’s production has been our core service since day one. This Competency validates the operating model behind our success”

Dzenana Dzevlan, Technical Manager and Co-founder of allOps

You can see the validated partner list on the AWS Cloud Operations Competency page.

Why AWS built the Cloud Operations Competency this way

Many cloud problems are not architecture problems. They are operating model problems, and they show up as cost, noise and audit findings at the same time.

Cost first. Flexera’s 2026 State of the Cloud Report, based on 753 cloud decision makers, found estimated wasted cloud spend rose to 29%.

That reversed five straight years of improvement. The cause was not carelessness. Generative AI became the third most used public cloud service, jumping from 50% to 58% adoption in a year, and it arrived with pricing models most FinOps practices were not built to track.

Then observability. Teams do not lack telemetry. They lack answers. LogicMonitor’s 2026 outlook found only 41% of IT leaders are satisfied with their platform’s ability to turn collected data into useful insight, and 39% report integration gaps between monitoring tools and the workflows that would act on them.

The Catchpoint SRE Report found nearly 70% of SREs say on-call stress has affected burnout and attrition on their teams.

These are not separate problems. Ungoverned accounts produce untagged resources. Untagged resources produce unattributable spend. Unattributable spend produces no accountability.

No accountability produces drift, and drift produces both the audit finding and the 3 a.m. page.

That is why AWS validates the five areas together. Customers with a holistic focus across multiple Cloud Operations areas generate a larger ROI.

The technical bar for the Cloud Operations Competency

The technical bar spans five solution areas that cover the same issue. Can the environment be governed at scale without people burning out while holding it together? This is what we showed:

Hybrid environments planned, built and managed to be secure, scalable and cost-efficient from the start, addressing threats and meeting compliance requirements even as customers integrate third-party tools alongside AWS services.

Cost and usage organized and tracked from day one, control tightened through consolidated billing, planning improved through budgeting and forecasting, and efficiency raised through both resource and pricing optimization.

Telemetry collected, aggregated, correlated and analyzed across network, infrastructure and applications, using AWS-native, APM and open-source tooling, and increasingly coupled with machine learning to predict and prevent issues before users feel them.

Internal, industry, national and international controls implemented through automation, so compliance processes move at the speed of the environment rather than blocking it.

Centralized operations across AWS, on-premises, hybrid and edge, built on automation and integrated with the ITSM tooling and processes clients already run.

Two details in that list are easy to skim past. AWS asks about hybrid, on-premises and edge in three of the five areas, not just AWS-native workloads. And it asks for integration with the tools clients already have, which rules out the partner whose answer is to replace the stack.

The integrated part is the requirement itself. Any competent partner can produce a dashboard, a tagging policy, or a compliance report.

The Cloud Operations Services Competency asks whether the tagging policy feeds the cost model, whether the cost model feeds the governance decision, and whether the governance decision shows up in the audit trail.

Business value is at the core of the Cloud Operations Competency

The business requirements are the ones you cannot argue in the abstract. Every claim has to trace back to a client.

We had quantifiable outcomes through:

Cloud spend that is attributable, forecastable and actively optimized rather than reported after the fact
Faster detection and recovery, measured against the revenue that downtime costs
Compliance evidence produced continuously, taking audit preparation off engineering calendars
Operational load reduced through automation, so engineers work on the product instead of the pager
Governance that scales with the account footprint instead of degrading as it grows
Reliability that clients can put in front of their own customers and regulators

This is the same case we make to every client. Fragmented vendors leave gaps between architecture, cost and operations, and those gaps are where outages, bill shocks, and overspend live.

We close those gaps, and now AWS has officially audited that claim. Feel free to check out our case studies sections for more details about our work, for example, how we built a secure, airtight environment on AWS for Forework, a payroll platform.

If this sounds like your environment

An AWS bill that behaves like a black box. A team stuck in ops firefighting. An audit that turns into a two-week engineering project every time.

Those are not three problems. They are one problem wearing three faces, and the Cloud Operations Services Competency is your evidence that we know how to take it apart.

Schedule a session with an AWS Hero and get an operating model that holds as you scale.