{"id":656012,"date":"2013-05-03T10:26:59","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T14:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=641971"},"modified":"2013-05-03T10:26:59","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T14:26:59","slug":"api-crazy-amazon-adds-a-new-tool-to-boost-support-for-enterprise-aws-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/656012","title":{"rendered":"API-crazy Amazon adds a new tool to boost support for enterprise AWS customers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continuing its quest to make its public cloud services more attractive to enterprise users, API-enamored Amazon has added another interface to the mix. Businesses that pay for AWS support<\/a> can use the new API <\/a>to tailor\u00a0their support cases and automate how they are handled.<\/p>\n

According to an Amazon Web Services blog<\/a> post Thursday:<\/p>\n

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“If you are signed up for the Business or Enterprise level of AWS Support, you can use this API to create new support cases, check on the status of open cases, and resolve cases. You can also add and retrieve information for existing cases. The AWS Support API also gives you access to best practices recommendations generated by the AWS Trusted Advisor. You can get the list of checks, access the latest results, and re-run the checks to refresh the results. This has been a much requested feature for customers who wish to integrate support case management into their in-house ticketing systems, and with the release of Support APIs we have delivered on this request.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

AWS support customers can also access their Trusted Advisor<\/a> recommendations via this API. Trusted Advisor<\/a>\u00a0is a monitoring tool that gives customers\u00a0tips about how to most efficiently deploy their AWS resources.<\/p>\n

Enhancing customer support will be key to AWS in the future. Startups and a growing number of bigger, older companies use AWS for test and dev. But when it comes to big production deployments, the knock on Amazon’s public cloud infrastructure is that, when it comes to deploying big, important applications,\u00a0it may not always be the most trusted — or even the least expensive<\/a> — venue. That’s why Amazon is doing its best — with its AWS: Reinvent <\/a>show and new tools — to show AWS as not just cost-efficient, but more importantly a flexible and reliable site for production work loads.<\/p>\n

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