Newvem’s Cloud Capacity Utilization Heat Map

What is cloud capacity utilization Heat Map?

The Cloud Capacity Utilization Heat Map gives a visual picture into your AWS cloud capacity and its utilization. This dynamic and easy view into AWS enables AWS users to identify fixed vs. variable capacity and make better capacity planning decisions. Additionally, users can spot usage which could be better economically served over fixed capacity computing platforms, such as Reserved Instances, hybrid, or private clouds.

Why is it important?

• The Heat Map helps to make better capacity planning decisions, spot variable and steady workloads to better meet workload service levels, and reduce long term costs.
• Poor AWS usage creates waste.  An average AWS user wastes more than 25% of their spend and underutilizes instances by 15%.
• The Capacity Heat Map is the first AWS usage heat map on the market and is FREE for all AWS users.

Why should an AWS user consider this from Newvem?

• Newvem is the leader in aws cloud operations analytics, having analyzed more than $200M in EC2 Spend ($400M in all).
• Utilization Heat Map helps to solve tactical cost spiral and improve strategic throughput with both Newvem’s free and premium features.
• Newvem offers a free service that addresses main exposures that AWS users need help on including tracking daily costs, availability, security, and utilization.

Newvem Cloud Capacity Utilization Heat Map Brief

Newvem’s Cloud Capacity Utilization Heat Map gives a visual picture into your AWS cloud capacity and how it has been utilized over the past 30 days, enabling cloud users to see the exact EC2 instances in use each hour over the past 30 days.  It’s used by AWS users to improve resource usage, identify consistent usage opportunities for fixed capacity planning including recommending AWS Reserved Instances, and to spot potential waste and irregularities.

From the $200M in AWS EC2 spend that Newvem has analyzed, we’ve seen AWS users struggle to contain costs and improve their cloud resource usage.  For example, 25% of spend could be saved and 15% of cloud usage is underutilized. The Utilization Heat Map helps solve this by visually depicting where they can capture these savings and how to improve throughput by aligning their cloud resources to their business’ needs on an hourly, weekly, and monthly basis.

Users can also drill down and visualize their usage by specific customers, products, environments and other views for their business.  For example, a CIO at a video streaming site can visually see how their capacity increases Mon-Fri between 8:00PM – 10:00PM while it scales down during the day.  Meanwhile, his DevOps team can easily track capacity patterns for their top customers, specific application environments or other business activities by using the Newvem Business Views feature together with the Utilization Heat Map.  Irregular usage patterns that don’t fit this model, and could represent persistent cost or utilization issues in the cloud can be easily spotted, diagnosed, and treated.

Newvem’s utilization heat map is available both as a free and premium feature within Newvem’s Cloud Care solution:

• The free version includes the Utilization Heat Map, connection with business groups, 30 day time series, and usage tracking from high to low utilization.
• The premium version includes the free version, as well as detailed reports that break down each hour of usage by machine type, instance ID, region, advanced business views, Reserved Instance purchase recommendations and lifecycle management.

What people are saying:

“I use the Utilization Heat Map with Newvem Business groups to plan and ensure that we are on track with high service levels to our top customers.” >> Visual Revenue

“We use the Utilization Heat Map to spot variable and steady workloads, which can be better utilized by purchasing Reserved Instances.” >> DoubleVerify

“Tracking AWS usage over multiple regions, especially outside of the United States, can be very challenging.  The Utilization Heat Map helps us to improve our capacity planning across regions, something we couldn’t otherwise do.” >> One Hour Translation