To ensure that your EC2 instances are properly sized in accordance with your real needs, clear and comprehensive insight into your EC2 performance metrics is a must. CloudWatch is a great Amazon service providing basic performance metrics on running instances. … Continue Reading >
“So tell me” asked the AWS user from Los Angeles, “exactly what differentiates Cloudyn from other players in the space?” It was a great question and fortunately I had solid answers. Combined with his successful 20 day free trial, the … Continue Reading >
In most areas of life, but particularly in business, we love comparing our good (and not-so-good) deeds with those of our peers. This benchmarking enables us to ensure our performance meets industry standards while identifying areas for growth. For those … Continue Reading >
Imagine your AWS EC2 reservations are about to expire. Wouldn’t it be great to be reminded so you can keep your cloud deployment running smoothly and cost-effectively? We thought so too and armed with some insightful customer feedback, we recently … Continue Reading >
A few weeks back we hosted a Silicon Vally Cloud Computing Meetup with Scalr and Quixey. A the event, Nate Lindstrom, Director of Network Operations at Salesforce spoke about best practices for managing cloud deployment such as cloud performance and … Continue Reading >
AWS customers looking to reduce the cost of EC2 consumption know that reserved instances are generally much more cost-effective than on-demand. The payback can be huge with most Amazon cloud customers saving between 30%-46% on their AWS bill. [Read more … Continue Reading >
Yesterday evening, Quixey in Mountain View played host to the Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Meetup group. The topic, “Dynamic AWS cloud deployment, monitoring and optimization” is clearly one of great interest as over 350 people registered for the event. Sponsored … Continue Reading >
If you read our business intelligence on Amazon EC2 in last week’s blog post, some of you should have been able to boost your AWS computing performance by 30% while keeping your costs the same. Not too shabby for reading … Continue Reading >
One of the side-effects of monitoring over 3 million AWS EC2 instances and 2.6 petabytes of Amazon S3 storage is that we are sitting on some really big data with some interesting industry trends and insight. Here are a few … Continue Reading >
A recent Symantec report highlighted how enterprises and SMBs are barely leveraging the efficiencies of cloud storage with only a 17% utilization rate of available cloud storage. Symantec claims that this results in companies “paying for roughly 6 times as … Continue Reading >
