Category: Amazon EC2

As organizations embark on their cloud journey, they seek to leverage the over 200 cloud-native services offered by AWS to drive innovation, increase agility, and optimize costs. However, migrating and refactoring existing workloads to take advantage of these services can be complex and time-consuming. Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on AWS bridges this gap, enabling organizations to seamlessly extend and migrate their on-premises workloads to AWS Cloud without the need for refactoring applications.

Coverage and utilization metrics can be misleading and do not always tell the full story when it comes to managing commitments and measuring their impact. Effective Savings Rate (ESR) is an objective FinOps metric that measures your true ROI. In this blog post, we will discuss challenges with coverage and utilization, why ESR is important, benchmarking insights, and automation with ProsperOps.

Cryptocurrency high-frequency trading firms use AWS to reduce latency to major exchanges. By using the Chronicle Tune product to optimize Amazon EC2 instances, customers have seen improvements in tail latency, ranging from 66% to 95%. Using EC2 Cluster Placement Groups has resulted in a 30%-67% reduction in network round-trip tail latency. These optimizations are crucial for maximizing the profitability of their high-frequency trading workloads in the cloud.

By Lenley Hensarling, Chief Product Officer – Aerospike By Akshay Patel, Senior Practice Lead, SaaS Partners – AWS SaaS Factory By Anthony McClure, Senior Partner Solutions Architect – AWS SaaS Factory By Bill Tarr, Principal Solutions Architect – AWS SaaS Factory Aerospike Real-time, high-performance workloads demand low-latency databases that can scale to meet the most […]

nOps Compute Copilot extends the capabilities of the open-source Karpenter Kubernetes cluster autoscaler, adding awareness of your AWS compute commitments like Reserved Instances and Savings Plans. It also analyzes Amazon EC2 Spot pricing data and termination risk to intelligently select the most cost-effective and stable Spot Instances for workloads. nOps automatically manages your Karpenter configurations, updating NodePools based on its cost optimization analysis and recommendations.

Amazon EC2 Mac instances provide Apple hardware to develop for iOS and macOS at scale. Dependencies for building apps require privileged access, normally needing manual user approval. By enrolling EC2 Macs into Mobile Device Management (MDM) with Jamf Pro, administrators can automate remote configuration and software deployment without per-instance interaction. After launching an instance and installing required profiles with Jamf, users should create an AMI to retain the instance state.

Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) allow quick deployment of EC2 instances, but managing multiple customized AMIs is complex. Stratus10’s Image Management Solution automates and streamlines AMI building, testing, and deployment using EC2 Image Builder. It provides consistency, integrates with current processes, reduces costs, and improves security. By eliminating manual processes, engineering teams can focus on innovation while hardened images ensure best practices.

MemVerge Memory Machine Cloud (MMCloud) enables running bioinformatics pipelines cost-effectively on Amazon EC2 Spot instances. It seamlessly integrates with Nextflow pipelines through the nf-float plugin and simplifies migrating on-premises pipelines to the AWS cloud. Learn how Columbia University and MDI Biological Laboratory leveraged MMCloud to run intensive genomic analyses at 50-80% lower cost by utilizing spot instances.

Uptycs and AWS Systems Manager integration provides automated, consistent deployment of Uptycs sensors across Amazon EC2 instances. This enhances security by ensuring full coverage, reducing misconfigurations, and streamlining management. Uptycs is an AWS Specialization Partner offering cloud-native application protection and endpoint detection and response. The integration leverages AWS Systems Manager’s capabilities for centralized instance management.

AWS provides discounted pricing through Reserved Instances and Savings Plans in return for usage commitments. Apptio Cloudability helps organizations maximize these commitments by analyzing AWS cost data to identify savings opportunities. Cloudability also offers automation to optimize commitments continuously, achieving higher savings than manual management allows. This frees up financial operations resources to focus on other cloud cost optimization initiatives.