What is Fully Managed Service?

Learn what is fully managed service and how it can help your business stay competitive with Auxiom's FAQs.

What is Fully Managed Service?

Managed and automated services are a great way to simplify the process of managing resources. Fully managed services allow users to focus on using the service rather than configuring it. With fully managed resources, you don't have to worry about backups, patches, and fixes as the cloud provider takes care of everything. Sometimes, however, a fully managed service offered by a cloud provider may not meet your needs and you may have to provide a similar service on your own.

In such cases, it is beneficial to have an experienced managed services team to help create the perfect IT solution for you and manage your IT from start to finish. Managed services take the overall security of your network and data out of the hands of a single person and put it in the hands of an entire team with proven systems and protocols. Co-managed IT strikes a balance between service provider capabilities and the level of engagement you need or want. Managed service support or help desks can work in a variety of ways, but typically an MSP will use email, text message, web portal, or telephone to allow customers to submit tickets for support requests.

Reactive or breakdown repair purchases, such as those typically performed by an in-house IT team performing urgent or unplanned IT repairs, almost always cost more than planned preparation and management by a managed service provider. With an external managed services team, you get a more complete team, better controls and balances, and more streamlined processes than you can see in an internal team. Remote Monitoring Management Tools (RMMs) allow MSPs to perform necessary and essential IT management tasks remotely, such as endpoints, networks, and devices. To stay competitive and adapt to their growing technology needs, many companies are looking for other solutions such as fully managed services. Using an outsourced managed service provider generally means a higher degree of protection due to continuous monitoring.

To establish a fully managed account, you must give the administrator full investment discretion over your account. When deploying or moving your application or services to the cloud, you can choose between AWS managed services or a self-managed scenario where you manage everything on your own. Auxiom has developed FAQs to guide you through the world of IT services managed.

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