Silicon Overdrive

Launches in Kenya

Gareth Bowers
CEO, Silicon Overdrive
 Meet the Silicon Overdrive Team

Ross Davie Ilze van Tonder Erick Odipo

Gareth Bowers
Business Development Director Business Development Manager Business Development Specialist
CEO

James Sindani Zipporah Wachira Jerusiah Pather Happiness Moiana

AWS Solutions Architect AWS Solutions Architect Head of Marketing Senior Marketing Specialist

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How we Assist Customers in Kenya
Silicon Overdrive is an IT Managed Service provider and AWS Advanced Partner.

• PoC • Governance • Improve

• Migrate • Security • Optimize
• AWS Funding • Compliance • Modernize

AWS Public Sector Partner of the Year – Sub-Saharan Africa 2021

AWS Consulting Partner of the Year – Sub-Saharan Africa 2020

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Silicon Overdrive has Launched in Kenya

Kenya
Uganda
Tanzania
Malawi
Mali
Zambia
Ghana
Zimbabwe
Nigeria
Botswana
Cameroon
Lesotho
Mozambique
DR Congo
Burkina Faso
Rwanda
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Why Kenya?
• Tech hungry hub
• Influential and innovative
• Bringing proven experience and expertise in AWS
• Foundational and advanced AWS offerings
• Transform together

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How Silicon Overdrive, as an
AWS Advanced Partner, Assists
its Customers

Erick Odipo
Business Development Specialist, Silicon Overdrive
Our Offerings to your Unique Requirements:

1. Architect a best practice solution

2. Migrate to AWS or implement a new solution on AWS

3. Grow with your business and improve your AWS environment

4. Continuous support

5. Security and Compliance assessments and improvements

6. Further Cost Management and local billing

Silicon Overdrive:
AWS Funding and Well-
Architected Framework Review

Ross Davie
Business Development Director, Silicon Overdrive
AWS Funding Programs
Startup Migrate Program

Startups who are migrating a workload to AWS can access this Program and gain:

• AWS Usage Credits

• AWS Partner Funding
• AWS Business Support

Startup Activate

As a Startup Partner, Silicon Overdrive has an AWS Activate Portfolio Org ID.
This allows us to help eligible Startups access the following:

• AWS Usage Credits

• AWS Business Support
AWS Funding Programs
AWS Database Plug n’ Play Startup Program

As Advanced Consulting Partners, we can access funding to help you run a

Proof-of-Concept (PoC) on AWS.

• Pre-built AWS CloudFormation templates for quick deployment

• Training Menu - Curated set of self-service training menus
• AWS Solution Architecture Advisory – Up to 2 hours of consulting time
• $2,000 AWS Usage Credits
• Go-to-Market Acceleration – AWS Software Partner Path for co-market and co-sell
program support.

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AWS Funding Programs
Proof-of-Concept (POC) Funding

As Advanced Consulting Partners, we can access funding to help you run a

Proof-of-Concept (PoC) on AWS to evaluate AWS services or your workloads on AWS.

• AWS Usage Credits

• AWS Partner Funding

Optimization and License Assessment (OLA)

We offer free Windows and SQL database licensing assessments to help customers save
when migrating to the cloud.

• OLA Assessment is fully funded by AWS

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AWS Funding Programs
AWS Windows Modernization Program (WMP) Funding

By offsetting AWS Partners’ fees for both modernization discovery and re-platforming,
the AWS WMP helps customers modernize platforms by migrating to AWS.

• Discovery Assessment is fully funded by AWS

Benefits:
• Unlock Innovation
• Lower Costs
• Improve Security
• Ramp Skills
• Improve Price/Performance

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AWS Funding Programs
AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) and MAP Lite Funding

With MAP, access benefits and large-scale funding over 3 years.

We can help you accelerate your cloud migration and modernization journey with an
outcome-driven methodology.

• Assess Phase is delivered by the Partner and is fully funded by AWS

• Mobilize Phase is delivered by the Partner and is partially funded by AWS
• AWS provides Usage Credits for the Migration Phase

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 AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) Funding
MIGRATE &
ASSESS MOBILIZE
MODERNIZE
Migration Readiness Assessment
Rapid Migration Business Case
(RMBC) Migrate

Discovery and Business Migration Landing

planning case plan Zone
Rapid discovery TCO report
Accelerators Operate

Security & Operating Migration Skills / center Modernize

Briefings & Immersion
compliance model experience of excellence
workshops day

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AWS Well-Architected Framework Review
We can conduct AWS Well-Architected Framework Reviews (WAFR) to evaluate and
improve your existing workloads to:

• Reduce risk and costs

• Improve reliability, security and compliance
• Meet Governance, go-to-market and stakeholder requirements.

You can obtain $5,000 in AWS Usage Credits per workload in the process that can be
used to fund the WAFR and improvements.

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AWS Well-Architected Framework
Evaluate and improve your workloads as part of your technical Due Diligence.

Operational Performance Cost

Security Reliability Sustainability
Excellence Efficiency Optimization

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Operational Excellence
Running and monitoring systems.
Continually improve processes and procedures.

Key topics:
• Managing and automating
changes
• Responding to events
• Defining standards to manage
Operational
operations Excellence

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Security
Protecting data and systems.

Key topics:
• Protecting systems
• Confidentiality and integrity of
data
• Controls to detect security
events
Security

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 AWS Compliance Programs

CSA CyberGRX ISO 9001 ISO 27001 ISO 27017 HIPAA HITRUST CSF
Cloud Security Alliance Third Party Risk Global Quality Security Management Cloud Specific Protected Health Health Information
Controls Management Standard Controls Controls Information Trust Alliance Common
Security Framework

ISO 27701 ISO 27018 PCI DSS Level 1 SOC 1 SOC 2 SOC 3 NIST
Privacy Information Personal Data Payment Card Audit Controls Security, Availability & General Controls National Institute of
Management Protection Standards Report Confidentiality Report Report Standards and
Technology

https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/programs/
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Trend Micro Cloud One – Conformity Report

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Reliability
Ability to prevent, and quickly recover from, failures
to meet business and customer demand.

Key topics:
• Architecture
• Recovery planning
• How we handle change

Reliability

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Performance Efficiency
Using computing resources efficiently.

Key topics:
• Selecting the right resources
• Monitoring performance
• Making informed decisions to
maintain efficiency

Performance
Efficiency

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Cost Optimization
Avoiding unnecessary costs.

Key topics:
• Understanding and controlling
where money is being spent
• Analyzing spend over time
• Scaling to meet business
needs without overspending Cost
Optimization

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Sustainability
Addressing long-term environmental, economic,
and societal impact of business activities.

Key topics:
• Using managed services
• Reducing the downstream
impact of your cloud workloads

Sustainability

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Asante Sana
aws.sales@overdrive.co.ke
+254 726 284 477 | +27 21 448 5759

Keystone Park, 95 Riverside Drive, Riverside, Nairobi Kenya

www.overdrive.co.ke