AWS Development and Consulting Services
Senior engineers design and build on AWS, from serverless applications and data platforms to generative AI on Amazon Bedrock, connected to the systems your business already runs.
Application on AWS
AWS Lambda, Amazon RDS, Amazon Bedrock
APIs
- ERP
- CRM
- Data systems
EXISTING BUSINESS SYSTEMS
THE BASICS
What AWS Consulting Covers
AWS consulting services help companies design, build, secure, and operate applications on Amazon Web Services. AWS cloud consulting usually covers architecture, choosing among AWS's many services, security and access control, cost visibility, and day-to-day operations. Good consulting often means using fewer services well, not every service available.
Our AWS practice
JBS Dev's AWS development services focus on building: serverless applications, data platforms, machine learning, and generative AI, delivered into production and connected to the systems you already run.
AWS PARTNERSHIP
An AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner
JBS Dev is an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner with Generative AI, Migration, and Retail competencies.
In the AWS Partner Network, services partners progress through tiers based on AWS-validated experience, certified staff, and customer success, and Advanced is one of the program's upper tiers. An AWS competency is a separate designation that AWS grants after validating a partner's technical expertise and customer results in a specific area. Both are worth checking when you compare AWS consulting partners. Read more about our AWS partnership.
AWS PARTNER NETWORK
AWS Partner Network
Services partner tiers
JBS Dev
Advanced Tier Services Partner
AWS COMPETENCIES
Generative AI
Migration
Retail
WHAT WE BUILD
AWS Services We Build With
Our AWS application development work centers on the services below, each chosen for the job rather than the other way around.
Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Bedrock gives access to foundation models for generative AI. We've used it to extract standardized data from Epic medical records, to power a knowledge base for a building materials manufacturer, and to build AI agents.
Amazon SageMaker
Amazon SageMaker trains and hosts machine learning models. For a manufacturer, we deployed a generative AI time-series forecasting model on SageMaker that reached 85 to 90% accuracy, with forecasts reaching internal systems through APIs. See machine learning.
AWS Lambda and serverless applications
AWS Lambda runs code without servers to manage, and you pay only for what runs. We moved a wine retailer's entire website to Lambda and built a daily pipeline that processes about 30,000 records for a regional bank.
Amazon Redshift and Amazon RDS
Amazon Redshift powers analytics at scale, and Amazon RDS runs managed relational databases such as PostgreSQL. We build data warehouse work on AWS and moved a shipping company's homegrown system onto RDS with automated backups and read replicas.
QUICK LAUNCH LAB
Start With a Focused AWS Session
These focused sessions are part of JBS Dev's Quick Launch Lab program, and several are free for qualifying organizations.
AWS Immersion Day: Redshift Workshop
A five-hour, virtual, hands-on workshop for groups of eight or more. It covers Amazon Redshift architecture, data modeling, loading and unloading data, table design and query tuning, security, operations, and backup and resizing. Attendees build a cluster, load data, tune queries, and try Redshift Spectrum, with JBS experts answering questions along the way.
AWS Immersion Day: RDS for PostgreSQL Workshop
A five-hour, virtual, hands-on workshop for groups of eight or more, led by JBS experts. It covers high availability and disaster recovery, scaling, backup and restore, upgrades and patching, performance monitoring, parameter groups, and security and compliance for Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. JBS is certified to deliver AWS Immersion Days.
AWS Immersion Day: Retail Innovation Workshop
A virtual half-day or full-day session for at least four attendees, free for qualifying organizations. You bring a retail challenge or goal, and JBS Dev's retail technology experts work through it with you, from loyalty programs, mobile apps, and curbside pickup to machine learning for recommendations, fraud detection, and inventory.
AWS Well-Architected Review Session
Certified AWS Solution Architects review one business-critical workload against the six Well-Architected pillars in about 4 to 8 hours of virtual discovery. Within five business days you receive a report with recommendations, level of effort, cost estimates, and a roadmap. The session is $5,000, and for qualifying organizations AWS can issue a $5,000 credit once JBS implements the fixes.
AWS SageMaker Data Wrangler Accelerator
A complimentary half-day session led by JBS senior data architects. It walks through a sample use case: ingesting data from Amazon S3, feature engineering, building a data flow, and starting a SageMaker training job. You leave with a CloudFormation template of the demo's code and data so you can rebuild it yourself.
HOW IT WORKS
How an AWS Engagement Runs
A typical AWS engagement runs in five stages, from a Well-Architected review to a handoff to your team or ours.
STEP 1
Well-Architected review
We assess your current workload or plan against the six pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
STEP 2
Architecture and plan
Senior engineers choose the services, design the cloud-native architecture, and estimate cost.
STEP 3
Build in stages
We build and ship incrementally, with automated tests and CI/CD.
STEP 4
Launch
We move to production with monitoring and logging in place.
STEP 5
Optimize and hand off
We tune cost and performance, then hand over to your team or ours.
What your team gets at handoff
You own everything we build, in your own AWS account. Services we can provide at handoff include knowledge transfer sessions with your team and documentation of the architecture, environments, and deployments. Your team can run the environment from there, or we can provide ongoing support, with senior US-based engineers leading and nearshore support available for ongoing work.
RESULTS
AWS Results
For a direct-to-consumer wine retailer, JBS Dev moved the entire website to AWS Lambda by February 2020, and the site absorbed a 400% traffic increase with no outages. For a regional bank, JBS Dev automated a daily process handling about 30,000 records on AWS in just under four months.
400%
Traffic increase absorbed, no outages
E-commerce
Serverless Ecommerce for Wine Access
Challenge: Wine Access ran its site on costly self-hosted servers from the 1990s.
Result: A move to AWS Lambda and Amazon Aurora absorbed a 400% traffic increase with no outages and cut database costs by about 50%.
Read the Wine Access case study30,000
Records a day, with no manual work
Financial Services
Automating 30,000 Daily Records for a Regional Bank
Challenge: Staff moved about 30,000 records a day from FIS DataConnection to ActiveCampaign by hand, after two to three years of failed automation attempts.
Result: An AWS Lambda and Python pipeline now runs the transfer daily with no manual work, delivered in just under four months.
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Per listing, down from up to a full day
Real Estate
AI Listing Creation for a Real Estate Client
Challenge: Realtors spent hours entering MLS listings by hand on outdated platforms.
Result: An Amazon Bedrock platform and a Chrome extension cut listing creation from up to a full day to under 10 minutes.
Read the real estate case study"JBS feels more like an extension of our internal team than a traditional vendor relationship."
Senior IT Leader, AmeriVet Partners
COST AND TIMELINE
What Drives AWS Project Cost and Timeline
AWS project cost and timeline depend on scope, data, and what the new system has to connect to.
- 01Scope and number of services
- 02Data volume
- 03Integrations with existing systems
- 04Security and compliance needs
- 05Who operates the environment afterward
How the timeline is set
Timelines depend on scope, and the assessment or a Well-Architected review sets them. Focused work moves quickly: a regional bank's daily data pipeline on AWS went from kickoff to running in just under four months. Larger builds ship in stages, so the first components reach production before the whole project is done.
How cost is set
We don't quote before we understand the workload. The assessment produces an estimate for the build and for the monthly AWS bill afterward, based on the services, data volume, and integrations involved. Serverless designs often cost less to run, because you pay only for what you use.
ENGAGEMENT MODELS
Ways to Work With Us
Each model stands alone or leads into the next. Compare all the ways to work with us.
Assessment & Strategy
For companies that need clarity before committing to a build.
Start here if you're not sure what to change first. We review the system component by component, weigh difficulty against business impact, and recommend a path for each part, including what to leave alone. You get a roadmap you can act on with us or on your own.
- Technical assessment
- Architecture review
- AI opportunity mapping
- Modernization roadmap
- Prioritized recommendations
Best when: You need to understand the opportunity, risk, architecture, or roadmap before investing in a larger build.
Projects
For companies ready to build or modernize a defined system.
For a defined scope, senior engineers lead delivery from architecture through release. We work in stages, write tests for core components, and ship through CI/CD. You own everything we build, plus knowledge transfer and documentation tailored to your team.
- Modernization projects
- Custom applications
- Cloud platforms
- Data systems
- Integrations
- AI agents
Best when: You have a clear business problem, workflow, or platform that needs to be built, modernized, or connected.
Teaming / Managed Delivery
For companies that need experienced delivery capacity.
When you need more than a single project, services we can provide include architectural guidance for your existing team, hands-on development, QA, and ongoing support. Senior US-based engineers lead our builds, and nearshore support is an option for ongoing work.
- Senior-led teams
- Embedded engineering
- Ongoing development
- Knowledge transfer
- Flexible support
Best when: You need reliable engineering capacity, technical leadership, or ongoing delivery support without adding unnecessary management overhead.
WHY JBS DEV
How to Choose an AWS Consulting Partner
Not every AWS consulting partner builds; some mostly resell. Ask these four questions before you choose one, and here is how we answer them.
- Is the firm a verified AWS partner, and at what tier?
- Yes. JBS Dev is an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner with Generative AI, Migration, and Retail competencies. Read more about our AWS partnership, where you can see the work behind each competency along with our AWS case studies.
- Who does the work: a senior AWS consultant or a junior team?
- A senior AWS consultant leads the work. Engagements are led by senior engineers and technical leaders who can make architecture, integration, and security decisions directly, with fewer handoffs and faster decisions.
- Will they pick the right service, not the biggest one?
- Yes. We pick models and platforms based on the task, accuracy needs, privacy, latency, and cost. Sometimes that means Lambda instead of servers, sometimes RDS instead of a warehouse, and sometimes fewer services than you expected.
- Where is the team?
- Senior US-based engineers lead our builds, with nearshore support available for ongoing work. From the first call, you will know exactly who is designing, building, and supporting your AWS environment.
JBS Dev is an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner, founded in 1999, whose senior engineers design and build applications, data platforms, and generative AI on AWS.
FAQ
AWS Development Services FAQs
What do AWS development services include?
AWS development services cover designing, building, and running applications on AWS: architecture, serverless applications, data platforms, machine learning, generative AI, security, and cost control. Ours focus on production systems connected to what you already run, using services such as Lambda, RDS, SageMaker, and Bedrock.
What does it mean to be an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner?
It means AWS has recognized the partner at one of the upper tiers of its partner program, based on validated AWS experience, certified staff, and customer success. JBS Dev is an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner. Competencies are separate designations AWS grants for validated expertise in a specific area.
Which AWS competencies does JBS Dev hold?
JBS Dev holds three AWS competencies: Generative AI, Migration, and Retail. Each reflects AWS validation of technical expertise and customer results in that area. The work behind them includes generative AI on Amazon Bedrock, migrations to serverless AWS, and retail projects such as curbside pickup delivered in six weeks.
Can you build generative AI applications on Amazon Bedrock?
Yes. We've built generative AI on Amazon Bedrock for production use, including a pipeline that extracts and standardizes data from Epic medical records and a knowledge base that lets a manufacturer's staff ask questions across manuals and drawings. We also use Bedrock-hosted models for AI agents.
Does our data stay in our own AWS account?
Yes, that's the default we design for. We build in your AWS account, so data and models stay under your control, and Amazon Bedrock doesn't use your prompts or data to train its models. AWS IAM roles scope access to what each service needs.
Can you help us move to AWS?
Yes. Our cloud migration services cover assessing your applications, choosing a strategy for each, migrating in stages, and cutting over while the business keeps running. A wine retailer's site moved to AWS Lambda component by component. See Cloud Migration for how we plan the move and the cloud bill.
How do you keep AWS costs under control?
We size services to real demand, favor serverless where traffic is uneven, and review spend once real usage comes in. A wine retailer cut database costs by about 50% after moving to Amazon Aurora, and its compute costs fell to a fraction of prior levels. See cloud cost optimization.
Who owns what you build?
You do. You own everything we build, in your own AWS account. We don't sell software licenses or a platform, so there's no ongoing fee to use your own system, and knowledge transfer and documentation are services we can provide at handoff.
Quick Launch Lab
Workshops and assessments
AWS Immersion Day: Redshift Workshop
Hands-on AWS workshop with JBS, a Certified Amazon Network Partner
AWS Immersion Day: RDS for PostgreSQL Workshop
Hands-on AWS workshop with JBS, a Certified Amazon Network Partner
AWS Well-Architected Review Session
Get more out of your AWS investment. Our AWS certified experts will provide guidance to secure and optimize your AWS workloads.
AWS SageMaker Data Wrangler Accelerator
Build, Run, Extend and Deploy. A use case walk-through and demo learning session.
AWS Immersion Day: Retail Innovation Workshop
Hands-on AWS Workshop with a Certified Amazon Web Services Retail Competency Partner
