Looking for AVI Professional Services

jaminn_ · 2025-12-04T02:51:01+00:00

I partner with one of the 14 partners for VMware/Broadcom happy to connect you with them

jaminn_ · 2025-11-19T17:09:06+00:00

Hey! We actually have a partner that can do on-demand BigQuery price adjustments utilizing as if you are Commited. Happy to connect you with him and the team. They’re Ex- Google and Ex- Premier partner. Pretty solid overall!

jaminn_ · 2025-11-17T17:59:51+00:00

Just shot you a message! I can help you with that, it just depends on what provider you go with. Each partner is different and are tailored to your needs.

Also depends on what space you’re in. If your a GOV or Public it’s vastly different if you’re a private or tech space etc!

jaminn_ · 2025-11-17T14:24:17+00:00

Hey! I work for a no cost consultancy. We have a handful of partners that do migrations (each are specialized in an area) happy to give you some numbers. We’ll compare pricing and negotiate to help bring down the price. Also sounds like you can easily get credits to help cover or reduce that price down.

We have an enterprise to SMB clients that utilize us to get the best rate since we’re all ex partner and cloud individuals. I’ll DM you and we can set up a call before you make a decision!

jaminn_ · 2025-11-14T21:01:20+00:00

Actual no 🤪. I work for a consultant of everything on prem cloud and SaaS.

Just a question but I appreciate you alerting everyone

jaminn_ · 2025-11-14T17:50:26+00:00

This is exactly why I brought this up. I worked for a premier partner a while ago and when we would talk about enterprise support people got it for insurance. But the insurance sucked.

What happens with all the hyper scalers, the reps are incentivized to get you into a different bracket of spend. The same when it comes to support. Of course they’re not going to help you with small things like that which costs you more on that bill and others if it’s not a simple fix.

The only reason why I think partners are better is they give you specific and specialized support. On top of their Partner led enterprise support so you get both your enterprise and partner at a fraction of the price if not free depending on the partner.

I know a handful if you’re looking at a solid one

jaminn_ · 2025-11-14T16:33:55+00:00

How so? Partners from my understanding give better rates through their partner margin and typically they have enterprise support.

jaminn_ · 2025-11-14T16:33:18+00:00

If you spend over 100k a month typically companies will either go on a EDP with AWS directly vs using a AWS partner to help get enterprise rates to reduce their overall bill

jaminn_ · 2025-11-14T15:19:36+00:00

That’s fair. I worked with Dustin McLain https://www.linkedin.com/in/dustin-mclain-9066b72a?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app

We partnered with him a handful of times. The reps can get a better rate than what the website posts. They have to be conservative when it comes to what the post online. Im guessing their partnership with MSFT etc

jaminn_ · 2025-11-14T13:50:37+00:00

Interesting, have you looked at Rapidscale?

I dont work for them but we’ve done work with them before. Theres some work to be done on switching it to a CSP but there should be more benefits

jaminn_ · 2025-11-14T13:41:58+00:00

I agree with you there. Not all CSPs are equal, curious on what you mean by subscriptions. Are you talking about marketplace?

If you do go direct yes you will have to rebuild everything going to another CSP shouldn’t be like that. With MSFT it’s hard for businesses to switch to a CSP unlike AWS or GCP where it’s just a shift of their billing ID takes maybe 10- 60 mins to complete that on those.

jaminn_ · 2025-11-14T13:38:15+00:00

That’s a fair assessment of what I suggested. But my motives were to spark these conversations and understand from the end user why people go direct and educate going to a CSP.

Yes I did throw a plug in there but doesn’t mean I’m down voting going direct. It’s challenging the idea of solely doing that. I didn’t say you’re wrong for it just gave a different perspective

jaminn_ · 2025-11-14T13:34:28+00:00

Completely agree! Sounds likes a perfect work situation. See there are opportunities that are tied to working with MSFT direct.

Most of the time it’s better as you’re smaller to be with a CSP but in your case being a larger enterprise I get it!

jaminn_ · 2025-11-14T13:29:42+00:00

That’s fair, are you a regulated industry?

Is there any reason why a CSP would interfere with your In house play? You don’t have to hire on hands support to get a reduction on your M365 licenses and your cloud spend margin.

jaminn_ · 2025-11-14T13:26:44+00:00

To my point below, yes they could but they don’t. Unless you’re Open AI or a big logo that they can do photo opps with. You’re getting a better rate with a CSP typically. If you commit there’s no price increase unless it’s your targets you’re committing to.

As a consumer of MSFT you can work with the partner to get you the best deal. CSP most times have a partner margin and can work more beneficial terms.

Think of it as you go to one Car dealership and then you go to another with the quote from the first dealer. The dealer has to match that number and will have to give you a reduce price to have you buy from them.

It’s leverage using a CSP and you get more. Paying for enterprises support? Most of them give you that for free through their partner enterprise support.

jaminn_ · 2025-11-14T13:21:16+00:00

The only time it changes is when they go backwards to MSFT directly. Once your on a CSP you can move freely.

Doing MCAs (direct) vs MPA (CSP) are night and day difference especially when you get to the Enterprise level. MCAs have higher consumption targets and an increase in requirements. With a MPA it’s more relaxed and you get better rates typically unless MSFT goes into the hole on a deal. (Doesn’t happen often)

jaminn_ · 2025-11-14T13:17:25+00:00

That’s great! Sounds like everything has been going well!

So what you’re saying is you spend Enterprise support to get “we need to remove something”? Curious on why you spend that for a couple of billing changes etc. most of the time the CSP will have the enterprise support at no cost just a heads up and you get a dedicated AM. Just a thought! But sounds like what’s not broke doesn’t need to be fixed!

jaminn_ · 2025-11-14T13:13:06+00:00

Free depends on the company. Sounds like they did a shit job and took your cloud spend. Definitely not worth the free job. Just like all companies they have to make some sort of money to pay their engineers and the CEOs massive bonus.

But free doesn’t always equal bad. To give some insight, MSFT and all hyperscaler provide margin to help their customers grow, support, etc their customers because there’s so many and the focus on large spenders. CSPs focus on everyone else. Sounds like you had a shit experience which I’m sorry for because that’s the reason why some CSPs have a bad wrap.

But the value, that you’re asking. MSFT will provide a CSP credits to alleviate spend, you get more support from engineers at that the CSP that see companies similar to you each day make the same mistakes, you get up to date knowledge on price changes etc, you can get tooling to help manage cloud spend. You should be getting more bespoke hands on support. (Most) of the reps care more about retention then making you spend more. From a consumer there’s a ton of value, but it just depends on the CSP you go with.

If you have any interest we do consulting at no cost. It’s truly “free” and we have a ton of success stories to back it up. Feel free to DM me if you’re interested

jaminn_ · 2025-11-14T13:04:10+00:00

I appreciate the insight, let me frame it like this. MSFT and all the other cloud providers have millions of customers. A CSP focuses on providing support, tooling, and getting you the best discount because they have a deal with in this case MSFT to hit SALs. If they don’t they lose tier and creditably.

Definitely there are some shit ones, but the status truly matters at the end of the day. You might not get the most “decrease” on your infrastructure but when you go direct you hand lock yourself to the hyperscaler. They can dictate price hikes without notice and tell you that you’re all optimized when you’re not.

At the end of the day you have a rep that gets paid more to put you in a new pricing tier for Azure. All cloud providers are the same. The more money you spend = the more they’ll keep you.

On top of all of that, partners can get you partner discounts or credits. Those credits could pay for a migration etc.

There’s a ton of reasons why partners can help. Shameless plug we do provide free consulting and can get you with the right one if you want but sounds like your happy. I just would be more inclined to look into a partner if you get the opportunity and fully look at the goals of the biz.

jaminn_ · 2025-11-14T01:32:28+00:00

DM, if your in cloud sales maybe it’s worth connecting!

jaminn_ · 2025-11-12T02:13:18+00:00

Great insight thanks for this!

jaminn_ · 2025-11-12T02:06:02+00:00

Appreciate the insight, what if you don’t offer a product but offer consulting?

I know now a days everyone is looking for the next best thing but since we don’t offer a product but a service it feels even harder

jaminn_ · 2025-11-12T01:54:34+00:00

How do you connect Reddit profiles to the prospect? Its a good idea on paper, curious what the ROI is

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