To: Board of Supervisors
From: Marc Shorr, Information Technology Director
Report Title: Contract Amendment with Amazon Web Services
?Recommendation of the County Administrator ? Recommendation of Board Committee
RECOMMENDATIONS:
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Chief Information Office, or designee, to execute a contract amendment with Amazon Web Services Inc. to extend the term through April 3, 2027, with no change to the payment limit of $500,000, to continue providing data hosting services.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The cost for Amazon Web Services is charged out to user departments based on usage. 100% User Departments.
BACKGROUND:
In 2023, the Department of Information Technology (DoIT) established an Enterprise Agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS), which the Board approved and became effective on April 4, 2023, through April 3, 2025, with a payment limit of $500,000. Under this agreement, DoIT's Network Services team oversees the County's AWS-hosted infrastructure, supporting various departments in leveraging cloud-based solutions for their IT operations. The AWS Master Services Agreement enables County departments to independently engage AWS services under the pre-approved terms and conditions established by DoIT, ensuring compliance and streamlined procurement. The $500,000 payment limit applies solely to DoIT's departmental procurement of services.
AWS provides a robust, highly available, and scalable cloud computing environment, enabling the deployment of mission-critical applications and workloads. Its infrastructure includes elastic compute services such as Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, serverless computing through AWS Lambda, and container orchestration via Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). Additionally, AWS offers a comprehensive suite of storage and database solutions, including Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) for object storage and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for managed relational data...
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