For CloudHealth Technologies, 2017 was a year characterized with announcements, funding, new leadership, and other big moves.
With so much that happened in 2017, we have collected our top 10 blog posts of the year for those who manage their cloud infrastructure.
Consolidate, Visualize and Govern: Unleash Your Container Environment with Confidence
Over the last year, we worked closely with some of our container customers to help them address their container governance and optimization challenges. To help solve these challenges and to promote best practices learned during our research, we recently launched the CloudHealth Container Governance Module.
How to Rightsize your Azure Infrastructure with CloudHealth
One distinguishing feature of CloudHealth is that you can create your own rightsizing policies. This gives you the flexibility to decide how you want your virtual machines to be scored within each of the battery meters.
A Word on Size Flexible RIs
The idea of sustained use discounts carries obvious customer appeal, and it’s nice to see that the cloud giants are factoring this into their product strategy. In this technology battleground, flexibility is clearly today’s weapon of choice.
Data Center and the Cloud: Bridging the Gap
CloudHealth Technologies officially announced support for VMware and data center environments, giving customers a way to manage cost, optimize performance, set policies, and evaluate workload migrations — all with the CloudHealth platform.
3 Frequently-Asked Questions about AWS Reserved Instances
One of the fastest ways to shrink your AWS bill is to purchase EC2 Reserved Instances (RIs). However, some organizations find it hard to keep up with the changes to RIs and the nuances associated with purchasing and managing them. Here are some frequently asked questions in regards to reserved instances.
Amazon Burstable Instances Explained
As the lowest-cost option, T2 instances are an important addition to Amazon instance families. Learn how Amazon Burstable Instances work and when you should use them.
Rightsizing: The Foundation for Optimizing Your Cloud Infrastructure
Why should you rightsize? The two key benefits of rightsizing are infrastructure optimization and reduced costs. Throughout your analysis you will come across assets that can be downsized or terminated to save money, or upgraded to improve performance. In this article, we break down rightsizing into a 3-step process.
How to use Lambda EC2 to Save the Most Money
Take a deep-dive into lambda pricing with this article contributed by Scott Feuless to understand where and how you can save the most money.
Your Organization Needs a Cloud Steward
As cloud management in the enterprise matures, it becomes more and more critical to have this centralized role. At CloudHealth Tech, we typically refer to this role as the Cloud Steward, take a look at what that means, and what responsibilities this entails.
Highlights from AWS re:Invent 2017: Instance Types, Containers, and More
The biggest annual conference for Amazon Web Services attracted over 45K people in 2017, here are some of the largest announcements Amazon had to make that impacted the cloud computing industry overall.
BONUS: Measuring Cloud Efficiency with Business KPIs
Measuring cloud cost efficiency KPIs should be a required ongoing effort for any organization running workloads on a public cloud infrastructure. This article looks at the KPIs to optimize ROI.
