Liongard eliminates manual processes for MSPs through delivery of Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management on AWS

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Rackspace Technology played a pivotal role in Liongard's journey through its Optimizer + offering and by providing scalable, reliable and cost-effective cloud solutions through AWS. “Optimizer+ shines a light in every corner of what we're doing on AWS, helping us find things to fix or optimize, to capture costs that we would have missed otherwise,” said Hendricks.

But Rackspace support extended beyond just infrastructure management.

“With Rackspace, you get another advocate in your corner,” explained Hendricks. “There are times when Rackspace can provide another point of view or can collaborate with AWS to achieve things that might not have happened otherwise.”

By going with AWS, Liongard was able to take advantage of the standout features AWS has. The first was AWS’s innovative nature. “Their pace of innovation on new things is always impressive,” said Hendricks. “They're always on the edge, innovating and introducing new things rapidly. Anytime I read about something that's new, especially in the past year in the AI space, I can go over to Amazon and there's a new product sitting there related to that.”

The second advantage of going with AWS was its global reach. “It was important to us to have a robust data center infrastructure at our disposal in all the major markets that we were in,” said Hendricks. “The data that we're gathering on our customers' behalf is extremely sensitive, and there are data sovereignty considerations, as well.”

“AWS has the most widely available data centers around the world,” he added. “So, from a functional point of view, it was important to us to be able to have instances of our Liongard product that are distinct in each of those geographic regions, and to have the data be able to stay there and never leave.”

And finally, Hendricks sees cost savings as inherent to the design of AWS. “What’s been really important in our success is that AWS carefully meters usage in a way that maps as closely as possible to the actual scale of what you're doing,” he said. “So, in other words, if you're careful to optimize and deploy your code in a way that only uses resources that it really needs, you pay a lot less money.

“That's an opportunity to think about cost as an important design factor for our software. That's something that we've learned over the past decade; It's not just about CPU, RAM and storage. Cost is a critical component of all operations in the cloud, and AWS gives you the visibility and all the levers that you need to optimize it.”