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Reserved Instances are a killer feature from AWS cloud that can save 35-55% of your bill and assure capacity utilization. Since AWS requires a 1 – 3 years contract, the challenge is trying to figure if Reserved Instances are right for you and how to execute the move.

Newvem’s Reserved Instance Decision Making Tool analyzes your AWS cloud account and identifies the exact balance of on-demand to reserved of your EC2 instances capacity. We go a step further and track how efficient your Reserved Instances are used and notify you in advance when they’re about to expire.

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What happens behind the scenes in your cloud over Labor Day Weekend? Before you start thinking about lighting up the BBQ, make sure that your AWS cloud is under control and not creating unexpected surprises for Tuesday morning.

AWS offers an amazing pay-as-you-go cloud infrastructure solution. Yet finding the right balance between configuring and maintaining a cloud that is ready to meet your exact business needs can be a challenge in itself. Since we launched our private beta of Newvem Analytics, we’ve analyzed nearly 900 unique AWS clouds and have seen significant parallels between waste and holiday events.

On Memorial Day weekend, we discovered on average, a 12% increase in the amount of idle instances across our users’ clouds, as well as a 10% increase in instances with idle CPU. For heavy AWS users, just one of these small changes can easily result in $10Ks in wasted spend. More importantly, you probably won’t find out about, let alone be ready to handle, a potential problem until Tuesday morning. For this Labor Day Weekend, how can you ensure you won’t underspend if demand ramps up? And, conversely, how can you ensure you won’t overspend if business slows down over the holiday?

Here are 5 best practices you should consider to help make your Labor Day Weekend ‘Cloud-Care-Free”.

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WordPress is one of the most popular open source blog platforms out there. It is used to power anything from simple blogs to complex portals, thanks to the variety of plugins the community has developed.

In this article we will describe the architecture options for deploying WordPress in AWS with scalability and high availability in mind. We will take advantage of the elasticity of the cloud and use more servers when we need them and less when we don’t (auto-scaling).

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Elastic IP addresses are IP addresses designed for Amazon cloud. An Elastic IP address belongs to the user’s AWS account and is not bound to a particular EC2 instance. This short how-to guide demonstrates how to view the list of you Amazon cloud elastic IPs.

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The following slideshare presentation was contributed by Andreas Chatzakis, one of Newvem honorable community experts. Andreas is the CTO and co-founder of Spitogatos.gr / HomeGreekHome.com (a high traffic real estate portal in Greece). The last AWS outage prove us all that the cloud is still young. Establishing an online mega portal based on AWS cloud infrastructure include great challenges, our travel through the clouds just began and new adventures waiting for us just behind the corner.

We invite you to check Andreas’ articles on Newvem’s resources channel or contact him for help.

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Keywords: cloud architecture, cloud adoption, cloud environment, amazon aws best practices, amazon aws Integration, getting started, amazon elastic compute cloud,

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The following article was posted on GigaOm and was based on our analysis and cloud security insights that Newvem’s big data engine reveals. In this article, you will find 5 important low hanging fruits that you should recognize in order to have your Amazon cloud account secure. If you are an Amazon cloud services’ user, we invite you to connect your AWS cloud account to our non-intrusive service in order to know your cloud and learn more, not only your AWS security, but also about money that you’re wasting, point of failures (POFs) and poor performance yields.

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Keywords: amazon aws infrastructure elasticity

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OpenX Source is a free, open-source ad server that allows publishers to manage their ad inventory and set up complex campaigns with sophisticated targeting rules.
Unfortunately, since OpenX has been focusing on their SaaS solution, the open source version is not well supported anymore. Nevertheless, many publishers still use and maintain their OpenX installations as there is a lack of open source alternatives offering the same flexibility and functionality.
Existing documentation to a great extent assumes a single server installation. For high traffic web sites delivering a large volume of advertisement impressions, there is a need for a more scalable setup.
In this article we will describe the steps we have taken to implement OpenX on a multi-server, auto-scaling setup running in AWS cloud and managed via Scalr. A similar approach could, of course, be configured outside the Scalr or even AWS context. We will mention some of the alternatives.

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