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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
Last Friday as I was wrapping things up, my inbox beeped with an email. One of our customers had just received their Cloudyn cost-to-date alert, informing them of their total AWS spend up until that point in the month. They … Continue Reading >
I was recently talking to a Cloudyn customer about best practices for reducing AWS spend. While expecting that our Reserved Instance Calculator – which recommends optimal deployment plans – would top his list of penny-pinching tools, his actual choice was … Continue Reading >
David Feinleib of The Big Data Group just published a report on best practices for achieving cloud cost efficiencies. Dave will be discussing the ramification of his study during an interactive webcast this Thursday, December 13 at 1PM ET. Register … Continue Reading >
This Cyber Monday will likely see record-breaking spending with Adobe predicting $2 billion in revenue. But with the cloud providing much of the extra capacity needed to support the expected surge of visitors, the exact ROI of Cyber Monday can … Continue Reading >
