AWS Usage Tips

Plan Your Consumption

IT managers must make sure they think and plan a head, before letting their guys push the “start button” to initiate a new computing resource. A Strict resources provisioning policy together with smart utilization of the cloud features, such as taking advantage of the spot and reserved instances, will fit usage based on planned IT budgets.

Cloud Capacity Basics

Capacity planning is described by Wikipedia as the “process of determining the production capacity needed by an organization to meet changing demands for its products.” Is that the same in the cloud highly dynamic environment? This article include some cloud capacity planning basic tips.

Scaling in the Cloud

Over time as an online service product matures, the amount of users increases and the overall usage goes up. The online service vendor will have to deal with scalability challenges and hopefully without the service suffering from poor performance. Basic terminology and more can be found here.

Save Cloud Costs: 5 Simple Manual Tips

Although many experience savings while switching to the cloud, the total cost of ownership for most is still too high. Before spending more money on additional monitoring and management systems, here are some tips to help you regain control and reduce costs immediately.

Availability in the Cloud

Deciding to move to the cloud raises a lot of questions regarding availability. The traditional IT manager need to change his mindset and transfer some of the his team’s responsibilities to the cloud service providers. Can he let it go?

Cloud Security Basics

Recently, the major popular clouds have increasingly become the focus of attacks by hackers. IT organizations may think that their legal liability can be outsourced, but total misconception. The contract with the IaaS vendors includes security obligations, however it does not negat the liability of the software vendor as the responsibe party.

The SLA Basics

The Service Level Agreement (SLA) discussion puts penalties and compensations on the table. Can we say that the compensation method the customer expects is the same as the Software as a Service (SaaS) vendor’s SLA provides?