Cutting Revenue Losses with Cloud Optimization
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Discover how cloud optimization goes beyond cost-cutting to boost revenue. Learn about FCI, latency, and availability losses, and how to minimize them for maximum profitability.
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August 13, 2024
Read full storyReducing Incidents with Autonomous Cloud Management: 7 Lessons from Autonomous Vehicles
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The development of autonomous vehicles as a solution to vehicle accidents provides parallels for the development of autonomous cloud management as a path to incident reduction. Explore key lessons on reducing human error, leveraging AI, incremental progress, phased rollouts, and building user trust to enhance system reliability and safety.
Read full storyThe Future is Autonomous: the AI-Driven Revolution in Cloud Management
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Traditional manual and rule-based automated systems struggle to keep up with the complexity of managing cloud environments leads to persistent issues with cost control and performance optimization. It's time to take the next step in cloud management—AI-driven autonomous cloud management platforms are solving the complexity challenge in modern cloud environments.
Read full storyUsing Amazon S3 Intelligent Tiering
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Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is a widely-used object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. S3 has a variety of storage classes.
Read full storyChoosing Amazon S3 Storage Classes: Key Considerations
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Key considerations when choosing Amazon S3 storage class include access frequency, performance (retrieval time), availability, durability, and cost. S3 Standard is ideal for frequently accessed data. S3 Standard-IA and One Zone-IA are cost-effective for infrequent access. Glacier, Glacier Flexible Retrieval, and Glacier Deep Archive offer substantial cost savings for long-term archival storage. Intelligent Tiering is beneficial for unpredictable access patterns, automating cost savings by transitioning data between tiers.
Read full storyAmazon 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.
Read full storyFour 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.
Read full storyUsing Amazon ECS Spot, Savings Plan and Reserved Instances to Optimize Costs
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Discover AWS pricing models for ECS in this guide, covering On-Demand, Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and Spot Instances. Learn how On-Demand instances offer a flexible pay-as-you-go model for fluctuating workloads, and explore the long-term discounts available with Reserved Instances and Savings Plans for predictable usage. Delve into Spot Instances, which provide steep discounts for fault-tolerant or stateless applications. This article also explains how to optimize costs and ensure availability by mixing On-Demand and Spot capacities, with a focus on ECS’s capabilities in automating Spot Instance lifecycle management and integrating with AWS Auto Scaling Groups. Perfect for optimizing your AWS spending strategy.
Read full storyFCIs Are the New Availability
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Failed Customer Interactions (FCIs) are a valuable metric measuring customer experience that accounts for the declining usefulness of time based measures such as uptime in microservice based architectures. It provides valuable insights into system availability from a customer-centric standpoint.
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April 26, 2024
Read full storyFour Business Case Benefits of Autonomous Cloud Management
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Your autonomous business case should consider cloud cost savings, performance gains, availability improvements and time savings. Operations teams looking to adopt autonomous optimization need to show business value to get buy-in from leadership.
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March 26, 2024
Read full storyThe Value of Autonomous Cloud Management
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Cloud cost and time savings drive the "above the surface" benefits of autonomous cloud management, but "below the surface" benefits including customer experience gains, release quality, employee retention and adaptability contribute to the overall value realized from autonomous cloud management.
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March 26, 2024
Read full storyTen Predictions for Autonomous Cloud Management in 2024
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Predictions for the how, where, and why of autonomous cloud management adoption in 2024.
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January 4, 2024
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