The Challenges to Automating Cloud Cost Optimization I’ve been writing about continuous cloud optimization for a while now, and recently, I’ve spoken with several organizations to understand any challenges they’re currently facing in their automation journey. Their insights would help us understand how we can improve our technology to better support them. I discovered two …

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This year’s AWS Summits are more than a little different. Despite being virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic, AWS is packing these events with lots of content. I’ve had a great time attending virtually, trying out hands-on labs, and sitting in on the technical sessions. As I work primarily with cost management and optimization for …

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Implementing Resource Optimization Insights in a Red Hat OpenShift Environment Managed by Red Hat Ansible Assume you have a process to determine the optimal settings for CPU and memory for each container running in your environment. Since we know resource demand is continuously changing, let’s also assume these settings are being produced periodically by this …

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What is an AWS Auto Scaling Group? An AWS Auto Scaling group (ASG) is a fleet of EC2 instances that can scale up or down depending on application demand. The elasticity of Auto Scaling groups makes them highly-attractive options for enterprises who do not want to invest in purchasing expensive hardware only to respond to …

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If you are familiar with minikube, a lightweight implementation of the Kubernetes ecosystem, then you may have also heard of Minishift. Designed as a development platform and delivered through a utility, this is the Red Hat OKD (Origin Kubernetes Distribution—formerly called OpenShift Origin) all-in-one implementation of Red Hat OpenShift. Being highly versatile, it can be …

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If you have discovered that your application demand changes over time, you’re probably wondering how you can continuously adjust your cloud capacity in accordance to application demand. If you use CloudFormation, then you’re in luck! This article walks through how you can update your template code to automatically implement infrastructure adjustments, periodically. Considering Infrastructure as …

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Advantages of Graviton Processor Instances for Your Workloads Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Graviton2 processor-based instances utilizing 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores. AWS Graviton2 processors deliver a significant leap in performance and capabilities over the first-generation AWS Graviton processor (A1 series) instances. Amazon boasts that these new instances provide up to a …

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What is Cloud Scaling? In cloud computing, scaling is the process of adding or removing compute, storage, and network services to meet the demands a workload makes for resources in order to maintain availability and performance as utilization increases. Scaling generally refers to adding or reducing the number of active servers (instances) being leveraged against …

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Cloud Computing brings New Benefits & Challenges to Infrastructure Management Cloud computing has fundamentally changed the way enterprises think about information technology infrastructure. A decade ago, IT professionals would make projections about the number and types of servers they would need for the next several months to a year. In some cases, they’d plan for …

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On-Premises Versus Public Cloud Computing Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud computing complements on-premises computing. On-premises refers to enterprise infrastructure that iss completely managed in a company’s data center or in a third-party data center. An enterprise is free to choose the hardware and software stack to run on their infrastructure. They’re also responsible for …

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