The Amazon ECS Optimization Journey: From Manual to Autonomous
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While each organization’s approach is different let’s consider a journey through four stages of maturity from high-touch, manual processes to sophisticated, intelligent systems that enhance performance and cost-efficiency with minimal human intervention.
Four Engineering Optimizations for Amazon ECS
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Explore four essential engineering optimizations for Amazon ECS - rightsizing, task placement, autoscaling, and scheduled shutdowns. Learn how to enhance ECS service performance and reduce costs with real-world examples of CPU optimization, memory efficiency, and task management. Discover the benefits of AWS Graviton instances for cost-efficiency and performance, strategic deployment through task placement, and cost savings with larger instance types. Understand how autoscaling adapts to traffic changes and how scheduled resource shutdowns during off-peak hours can further reduce expenses. Optimize your AWS environment for better performance and cost-effectiveness with these proven strategies.
Amazon ECS Optimization Challenges
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Successful ECS optimization impacts financial performance including both cost savings through reduced overprovisioning and discount management, and revenue gains from application performance and latency gains. While ECS offers a range of controls and strategies, including rightsizing and utilizing spot instances, implementation is complex when managed with manual methods.
Understanding Amazon ECS
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In this post we'll take a look at ECS vs other Amazon Compute models and some key concepts in Amazon ECS.
Autonomous Optimization of Amazon ECS at KnowBe4
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KnowBe4's autonomous journey has led to 98% of their Amazon. ECS and Lambda services running autonomously, with a 27% cost reduction and over 1,100 autonomous actions in the past 3 months. KnowBe4 fhad aced an optimization challenge with their Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) services, leading them to adopt Sedai's autonomous optimization to reduce toil for engineers and improve efficiency. KnowBe4 implemented a three-part approach (Crawl, Walk, Run) to gradually adopt autonomous optimization, resulting in significant cost savings and performance gains.
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April 14, 2024
Mastering Autonomous Optimization for Amazon ECS
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In this post, we will cover how to master Amazon ECS optimization using autonomous techniques. The autonomous approach can help with both ECS cost optimization and performance optimization.
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April 14, 2024
Optimizing AWS ECS Costs: Sedai Demo & Walk-through
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Walkthrough of Sedai's autonomous optimization for ECS showing ECS service optimization, instance optimization, and purchasing levers. An autonomous cloud-management platform designed to optimize performance, cost, and availability for your ECS (Elastic Container Service) clusters.
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August 22, 2022
7 Strategies to Optimize ECS Costs
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Hello everyone! In this article, we will discuss seven effective strategies to optimize costs for AWS ECS. This discussion is based on the joint webinar between Sedai and AWS, which you can watch here.
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March 5, 2023
The Impact of Autonomous Systems
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This article, based on the kickoff session from the autocon/22 conference, sets the stage for the event by outlining the significance of autonomous systems in cloud management. It explores how autonomous systems have revolutionized various industries and highlights their transformative potential.
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March 28, 2024
Announcing Availability of Autonomous Cloud Management Platform
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Announcing the availability of the Sedai Autonomous Cloud Management Platform. We welcome you to sign up for a free Sedai account and experience the future of site reliability engineering — autonomous.
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March 14, 2022