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Governed AI in CloudOps Part 2: Inside the CloudOps Competency Benchmark
Part 2: How domain-specific evaluation turns agent performance into defensible operational authority In Part 1, we shared our opinionated position that autonomy in CloudOps is operational authority. A system should not receive that authority because it performs well in a demonstration or because a vendor describes it as autonomous. It should earn authority for specific…
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AWS MSP Program Requirements Just Changed: Inside VCL 8.0
The AWS MSP Program requirements changed sharply in VCL 8.0: 24 new AI controls, 27 updated, 10 unchanged, and audit evidence AWS now expects partners to produce.
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Governed AI in CloudOps Part 1: Autonomy Should Be Earned, Not Claimed
Governed AI needs earned authority, not a good demo. See how MontyCloud’s CloudOps Competency Benchmark grades AI agent autonomy across five levels, against evidence.
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AWS Billing Transfer: What It Means for MSP Billing and How DAY2 Supports It
AWS Billing Transfer lets one AWS payer account take over billing management for another payer account’s entire AWS Organization, without either side migrating a single account. For MSPs, that means you can finally bill customers who want pricing oversight and program benefits but won’t give up ownership of their AWS Organization. MontyCloud DAY2 now supports…
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AWS Partner Revenue Measurement (PRM) Deadline: What Partners Need to Know Before July 31, 2026
Quick answer The AWS Partner Revenue Measurement (PRM) operational deadline is July 31, 2026 for the broader AWS partner ecosystem. Partners holding the AWS AI Competency are being asked to have at least one AI service tagged under PRM by May 31, 2026. PRM works by reading the tag aws-apn-id with a value of pc:<marketplace-product-code>…
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How to Prompt MontyCloud Conversations: A Five-Component Framework for MSPs
How do you prompt MontyCloud Conversations to get a client-ready report? Include five components in every prompt: (1) the data source, (2) the scope, (3) the output format, (4) the constraints, and (5) the audience. A well-structured prompt returns a finished deliverable. An open-ended prompt returns a data dump. Scenario Maya is a senior sales…
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How Modern MSPs Scale AWS Managed Services as Partner Economics Shift
The math of running an AWS managed services practice has changed. AWS Partner Revenue Measurement (PRM) now ties incentives to resource-level attribution. The AWS MSP Program rewards quarterly Proofs of Management with up to 5% quarterly (or $500,000 per year) in cash benefit on managed AWS revenue, plus $50K in annual Marketing Development Funds and…
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Making AWS SHIP Scalable for MSP Security Practices
For Managed Service Providers (MSPs) operating an AWS practice, the AWS Security Health Improvement Program (SHIP) is one of the most credible ways to start a security conversation with a customer. It is a structured, AWS-aligned framework for evaluating cloud security posture and prioritizing what to fix next. The challenge is delivery. Running SHIP manually…
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Simplify AWS Partner Revenue Measurement Readiness with MontyCloud
For MSPs and partners, AWS Partner Revenue Measurement (PRM) helps track, attribute, and report revenue influenced or driven through AWS-based solutions and services. A key requirement for PRM readiness is consistent resource tagging across scoped accounts and tenants. In multi-account environments, this becomes manual, fragmented, and difficult to manage at scale. When tags are missing…
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AWS MSP Incremental Growth Incentive: What It Is and How to Maximize It
If you submitted your Proof of Management (POM) in 2026, AWS has something new for you, and it’s worth paying attention to. AWS recently introduced the MSP Incremental Growth Incentive, a tiered cash incentive that rewards MSP partners for growing their managed services revenue year over year. This is separate from—and stacks on top of—the…
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