AWS, DevOps

AWS Cost Optimization Series | Blog 5 | Spot Instances for Non-Prod Environments

In our current setup, we are using multiple technologies but the most used ones are AWS ECS and Elasticsearch Cluster. As discussed earlier we are using AWS ECS for powering our application layer in all the environments and Elasticsearch for centralized logging and as a database for our core application. AWS ECS uses auto scaling groups...

by Neeraj Gupta
Tag: AWS Cost Optimization
27-Feb-2017

AWS, DevOps

AWS Cost Optimization Series | Blog 4 | Databases Consolidation and Optimization

This is a blog series in continuation to a Use Case on How the team at TO THE NEW reduced monthly AWS spend from $100K to $40K in 90 days for a client. In this blog, I would explain how MongoDB consolidation and RDS optimizations have helped one of our clients to generate significant cost savings. Earlier in our ecosystem, every...

by Neeraj Gupta
Tag: AWS Cost Optimization
24-Feb-2017

AWS, DevOps

AWS Cost Optimization Series | Blog 3 | Leveraging EC2 Container Service (ECS)

Organizations are taking a plunge and leveraging AWS to varied benefits. In this blog, I would be highlighting how we were able to successfully generate 35% cost savings for a client. To know more about the Client and their environment, read through the parent blog of this use case - AWS Cost Optimization Series | Blog 1 | $100K to...

by Neeraj Gupta
Tag: AWS Cost Optimization
22-Feb-2017

AWS, Technology

AWS Cost Optimization Series | Blog 2 | Infrastructure Monitoring

This is a blog series in continuation to a Use Case on How the team at TO THE NEW reduced monthly AWS spend from $100K to $40K in 90 days for a client. In this blog, I would explain how we leveraged infrastructure monitoring to save cost by removing idle resources. Before getting deeper into any Cost Optimisation strategies, let us...

by Neeraj Gupta
Tag: AWS Cost Optimization
20-Feb-2017

AWS, DevOps

AWS Cost Optimization Series | Blog 1 | $100K to $40K in 90 Days

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has significantly changed the IT world as more and more companies are adopting AWS for hosting their QA, Dev, Stage, Prod workloads. This has led to an increase in their monthly AWS spent and there comes a need to re-examine their cloud strategy to bring these costs down. It is a five blog series, I will be...

by Neeraj Gupta
Tag: AWS Cost Optimization
16-Feb-2017