How to Choose an AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP): The 2026 Buyer's Guide

Published: 10/10/2026

A CTO/CIO framework for shortlisting, vetting, and signing an AWS MSP, without inheriting someone else's bad decision.

Moving your workloads to AWS was the easy part. Running them well, month after month, through cost spikes, security incidents, and the quiet erosion of your own in-house knowledge, is where most cloud programmes actually succeed or fail. That is the job an AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP) is supposed to take off your plate.The problem: "managed services" is one of the most abused phrases in the cloud channel. Almost every consultancy claims it. Far fewer have earned AWS's own MSP designation, ...