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Your Ultimate Guide to AWS EDP
Reading Time: 4 minutes As the ultimate solution to all your cloud needs, AWS offers well-optimized cloud services. But, amidst the ever-increasing cloud bills, cloud cost optimization has emerged as a must. No matter the size of your company, cloud management must be implemented to prevent wasting money and resources on underutilized cloud assets. Even when it comes to…
Introducing AWS MAP Tracker – Maximize MAP Funding, Track Progress & Automatically Tag Resources with nOps AWS Migration Tool
Reading Time: 3 minutes Tracking your migration progress can be challenging as there are several moving pieces. To maximize your MAP funding, you have to stay on schedule and also make sure all of your resources are tagged properly. Every day that you have resources that are not tagged properly, you lose money, leading to thousands of dollars wasted…
GraphQL: Cloud Data to Visualize AWS Infrastructure Resources
Reading Time: 4 minutes How using GraphQL and nOps can give you answers about your infrastructure faster. AWS Infrastructure Visualization is Needed to Simplify Cloud Administration. The number of elements used in the AWS infrastructure is constantly growing, at the same time the number of relationships and dependencies between services is also growing. For example, to run and configure…
Automate AWS Reserved Instances to Save up to 30% over On-Demand Cost
Reading Time: 4 minutes You’re a DevOps engineer and your boss comes to you and says, “We need to buy Reserved Instances to cut our costs.” You do some googling to learn more about RIs; you learn there are different types of Reserved Instances: Standard and Convertible. A Standard Reserved Instance provides a more significant discount than a Convertible…
What Are the Pros and Cons of AWS Chargebacks?
Reading Time: 3 minutes AWS (Amazon Web Services) chargeback is an IT financial management strategy of recovering costs from different business units according to their spending. It allocates the cost of AWS services to the business unit where your business needs them. AWS chargeback occurs when you charge each business unit on your main account according to how much…
How to Create an Effective AWS Chargeback Model
Reading Time: 3 minutes An AWS (Amazon Web Services) chargeback model allows IT companies to charge business units or their customers for the resources they use. Chargebacks shift the burden of IT spending to each user, rather than the administrators. Business units become more disciplined, keeping costs in mind when utilizing AWS resources. An AWS chargeback model enables business…
Benefits of Migrating Your IT Resources to AWS Cloud
Reading Time: 3 minutes Cloud computing has gained relevance for the past decade, thanks to the numerous benefits it offers. As more organizations realize the benefits of on-demand delivery, cloud platforms are gaining even more traction. If you want to future-proof your business, it’s imperative to consider migration to a more agile cloud platform. AWS cloud is at the…
Comprehensive Guide to the AWS Trusted Advisor
Reading Time: 3 minutes The AWS (Amazon Web Services) Trusted Advisor helps you get an almost perfect cloud by giving recommendations based on the AWS Well-Architected Framework. If you’re familiar with the AWS Well-Architected model, you know that the cloud should be secure, reliable, fault-tolerant, and cost-optimized. While there are hundreds of best practices in each pillar, it’s challenging…
How to Analyze Cloud Cost Using the AWS Cost Explorer
Reading Time: 3 minutes You can keep AWS (Amazon Web Service) costs under control using the AWS Cost Explorer. The AWS Cost Explorer is a cost management tool that lets users see how costs vary over time. With this software, you can export reports, detect anomalous usage patterns, view periods with the highest cloud spending, and much more. You…