The software resources provided through AWS Service Catalog are preconfigured by Cloudticity to be secure and HIPAA-compliant. Verge Health can be confident that any instances they provision will work as intended and will be identical to those used in production. By eliminating configuration errors, this consistency saves the company time and money.

Using AWS Service Catalog, Verge Health has accelerated its already-market-leading pace of innovation. “The flexibility we have today is dramatically improved,” says Lawson. “It allows us to instantly put environments in place to support my engineering teams. They can develop and test new applications and get them to market faster so we can respond to business change.”

Verge Health estimates that manually configuring a development and test environment would have taken up to three weeks before adopting AWS Service Catalog, with a high probability of errors. Now, it takes only moments and is error-free.

From an operational perspective, using AWS Service Catalog helps Verge Health focus on value-added activities. “I don’t have to maintain resources whose only job is to be knowledgeable about servers,” says Tom Fink, vice president of technology services at Verge Health. “Instead, we can focus on what we do best, which is build software. The majority of my people are attacking business problems. We can leave provisioning and managing infrastructure to those who specialize in it.”

Using a platform-as-a-service approach is not only speeding development at Verge Health, it’s also enabling the company to take it in new directions altogether by giving it the freedom to experiment at low cost and low risk. “If we have a theory about something that might improve speed, agility, or security, we can spin up a pseudo-environment and put it to the test, and then spin the resources down again when we’re finished. Doing that manually would be virtually impossible,” says Lawson.

In-depth monitoring is another key benefit Verge Health has gained with AWS. It now has a real-time view into the health of its environment and can quickly adjust to provide the best user experience. Granular, per-component cost information enables the company to improve operational efficiency and analyze the cost-to-value ratio of potential new features before investing engineering resources in them. “While we could do some of this with our previous hosting provider, the granular visibility into the component cost of the underlying infrastructure is unique,” says Fink.

“Using reliable, HIPAA-compliant resources deployed from AWS Service Catalog, we can accelerate our time to market while continuing to lead conversations around security,” says Lawson. “The move to AWS and our partnership with Cloudticity will help us remain best-in-class.”