Newvem’s Utilization Heat Map enables you to visualize your 30-day cloud usage by hour, region, business activity, and more in a single glance.
Did you know that more than 15% of clouds are underutilized? That’s more than $30M of the $200M in EC2 spend that Newvem has analyzed over the past year! Such a waste but it can be easily remedied with Cloud Utilization Heat Maps!
Pacemaker is an open source, high availability resource manager suitable for both small and large clusters. It supports many deployment scenarios and can dramatically reduce hardware costs by allowing several active/passive clusters to be combined to share a common backup node. It monitors the system for hardware and software failures, using advanced algorithms to automatically recover applications in the event of a failure.
In this article, Yossi Nachum of Emind Systems gives a step-by-step guide to installing Pacemaker in Amazon AMI.
An AWS spot instance helps to reduce the running cost of the EC2 instance. The user bids for a spot instance request specifying the maximum price that the user is willing to pay per hour per instance. Once the spot instance request is fulfilled, the instance will continue to run until it is manually terminated or the spot price increases above the maximum bid price. The user is not charged as per the max price; instead the user will be charged at the current spot price in that availability zone. To know the charges for spot instances, Amazon EC2 provides access to a data feed, which details the user’s spot instance usage and pricing every hour.
The present guide demonstrates how to subscribe or delete the spot instances price data feed.
If you’re on the Amazon cloud, then you’ve probably already noticed that the AWS bill you receive is exceedingly complex. If you haven’t already switched, than perhaps stories from peers have scared you off. With the complexity of the consumption-based bill, your cloud costs can get out of hand and you may not understand why.
AWS has introduced a new offering called Amazon Glacier, an advanced, durable archive that changes the traditional manual way of archiving.
AWS Glacier follows the similar concept and is ideally suited when you need to store your data files/objects, collected over years, in a reliable place. In this presentation you will find some basics on how to get started with Amazon glacier including some important tips and best practices.
“Hitting your cloud sweet spot” was the title of Newvem’s breakout session at re:Invent 2021 . I had the privilege to moderate a panel of cloud experts, who joined us to share their cloud operations status, challenges and gaps. Our panelists members were Ed Laczynski, VP Cloud Strategy & Architecture, Datapipe; Shane Myers, Operations at SmugMug; Andrew Kenny, VP Platform Engineering at Acquia; Eric Hammond, from alestic.com and Chemi Katz, VP Technical Operations at DoubleVerify.
One of the most important features of the cloud is the sharing of resources by multi-tenants. It is this sharing that enables the cloud operator to provide scalability and support “economies of scale” for its business. If the utilization of these resources is to be optimized, these resources must be shared between the cloud consumers.
What is Steal Time? The basic metric for how a server utilizes its CPU is the idle capacity – the amount of CPU that is free.
Thanks to an impressive showing Newvem had at Amazon’s AWS re:Invent user conference, attracting the interest of many long time large Amazon users, fortune 500 companies learning how to embrace Amazon and many AWS partners and resellers who see value in Newvem’s help to identify proper AWS usage for their customers, Bloomberg TV invited Newvem’s CEO Zev Laderman to their featured CEO sit down segment, in their prime business time program: “Taking Stock”.
Host Pimm Fox interviewed Newvem’s CEO Zev Laderman on the Cloud adoption phenomena and how Newvem helps AWS users get the most out of their AWS environment.
Amazon has announced a new AWS region in Sydney, Australia with the name
ap-southeast-2.
It is time to expand the AWS footprint once again, with a new Region in Sydney, Australia. AWS customers in Australia can now enjoy fast, low-latency access to the suite of AWS infrastructure services.” Read More
