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Embedded Expertise. Lasting Impact.

Your cloud journey doesn’t need another vendor—it needs a trusted partner who works alongside your team to accelerate progress and build confidence.

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THE AiR ADVANTAGE

Embedded Partnership for Stronger Results

Traditional MSPs deliver tasks. UTurn’s Architect-in-Residence Program delivers transformation. We don’t believe in working at a distance. Our architects embed directly with your team—collaborating daily to solve problems, accelerate delivery, and build alignment between business and technology. This close partnership allows us to adapt in real time, sharing context, removing blockers, and ensuring every decision supports your long-term goals. With AiR, you get the consistency and collaboration of a full-time team, without the overhead.

Flexible Engagement

Built to Meet You Where You Are

Every organization is different, and your support model should reflect that. AiR adapts to your stage of cloud maturity—offering modular, customizable engagements that align with your goals and capacity. Whether you’re planning a migration, modernizing workloads, or scaling AI initiatives, AiR provides the right mix of expertise, cadence, and resources to meet you where you are and accelerate what comes next.

Expert Support

Your Team of Certified AWS & AI Experts

Senior AWS Solutions Architects lead every AIR engagement, supported by specialized cloud expertise.

  • Senior Architects specializing in DevOps, Security, Migration, Containers, AI/ML, Data & Analytics
  • Engineering Teams including Cloud Engineers, DevOps Engineers, AI/ML Engineers, and Data Engineers
  • Technical Project Managers ensuring seamless coordination and delivery
  • AI Innovation Specialists who identify, prototype, and implement intelligent solutions

Working alongside your team for extended engagements to ensure continuity and lasting impact.

Knowledge Transfer

Confidence Through Collaboration

AiR is designed to make your teams smarter, not more dependent. Through hands-on collaboration, whiteboarding sessions, and weekly office hours, our architects teach your engineers how to solve complex challenges confidently. You gain not just solutions, but the know-how to maintain, scale, and innovate on your own—empowering your team to own the cloud with confidence long after the engagement ends.

The AiR Difference

A Different Type of Managed Service

Traditional managed service providers and large consultancies deliver projects — UTurn’s AiR delivers progress. By embedding expertise, enabling your team, and integrating AI throughout the process, we redefine what partnership looks like in the cloud so you don’t outsource progress, you accelerate it.

UTurn Architect-in-Residence (AiR)

A Program Built for Progress

UTurn’s Architect-in-Residence program gives you ongoing access to senior AWS-certified architects. Through structured collaboration, proactive optimization, and a focus on innovation, AiR transforms cloud operations into a continuous advantage—empowering your team to move faster, work smarter, and deliver measurable results.

Office Hours & Architectural Leadership

AiR architects are more than advisors—they’re embedded leaders who meet regularly with your team through structured office hours, architecture reviews, and strategic check-ins. These sessions create space for technical deep dives, design reviews, and real-time problem solving that keep your cloud initiatives aligned, unblock challenges, and accelerate decision-making.

Outcome:
Direct access to senior AWS-certified architects who guide, mentor, and elevate your team’s capabilities

Continuous Optimization & Well-Architected Reviews

Optimization isn’t an afterthought—it’s an ongoing discipline. AiR includes recurring Well-Architected Reviews to assess performance, security, reliability, and cost efficiency across your environment. We blend human expertise with AI-driven analytics to identify savings, eliminate waste, and evolve architectures in step with AWS best practices.

Outcome:
Lower costs, stronger performance, and a cloud foundation built to scale sustainably.

Innovation Labs & AI Enablement

AiR helps your team go beyond day-to-day operations and into innovation. Through structured labs, workshops, and co-development sessions, our architects guide you in prototyping new ideas, integrating AI services, and accelerating proofs of concept—all within a governed, secure framework.

Outcome:
Faster innovation cycles and new business opportunities powered by hands-on experimentation with AI and emerging AWS technologies.

Liaison
to AWS

As your direct connection to AWS, AiR helps you navigate the partner ecosystem with clarity and confidence. We advocate for your business inside AWS—escalating support issues, unlocking funding and accelerator programs, and connecting you with the right technical and go-to-market resources. Our deep relationships across AWS ensure you get faster answers, better visibility, and greater access to the programs that drive progress.

Outcome:
A trusted partner who ensures you’re fully leveraging AWS relationships, resources, and incentives.

FinOps & Cost Optimization

Architecture and cost go hand in hand. AiR helps you build FinOps capabilities that bring financial accountability to every AWS decision. From cost allocation and forecasting to Marketplace strategy and commitment optimization, we equip your team with the tools and processes to maximize the value of every dollar spent. UTurn also supports negotiation with AWS to help you secure savings and maintain predictable spend as your environment grows.

Outcome:
Confident cloud financial management with visibility, predictability, and efficiency across every workload.

AWS Partner-Led Support

UTurn Data Solutions delivers comprehensive AWS partner-led support options designed to maximize your cloud investment and accelerate your business outcomes. We provide dedicated technical expertise, proactive monitoring, and strategic guidance to ensure your AWS infrastructure operates at peak performance. Our team of certified AWS professionals acts as an extension of your organization, delivering personalized support that helps you innovate faster, reduce operational overhead, and maintain security and compliance.

Outcome:
Ready access to certified engineers who provide faster issue resolution, strategic architectural guidance, and seamless scalability—enabling your team to focus on innovation rather than infrastructure management.

Real Results That Matter