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
24-Feb-2017

DevOps, Technology

Introduction to LDAP Server – OpenDJ 3.0

OpenDJ is a directory server which implements a wide range of Lightweight Directory Access Protocols (LDAP). OpenDJ is written in Java language. It was an internal project started by Sun Microsystems, which is now maintained by Forgerock. Steps to set-up OpenDJ LDAP Server: Register to www.forgerock.com and download the .zip or...

by Mayank Negi
Tag: aws
23-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
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
20-Feb-2017

Cloud, DevOps

[Infographic] 6 Powerful AWS Services to Boost your Cloud Performance

With over a decade into the market, AWS continues to dominate the public cloud infrastructure space by a sizable margin. Most companies have migrated to AWS with a clear mindset to reap the benefits of cloud services such as increased agility, improved efficiency, accelerated development and cost efficiency. However, many businesses still...

by Anuradha Ishwaran
Tag: aws
16-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
16-Feb-2017

Cloud, Digital Transformation

How Alibaba Cloud is disrupting the Cloud ecosystem?

The ongoing technological evolution has influenced both, the customers and businesses alike. Evolving digital consumers and the rise of digital technologies such as IoT, Mobility, Cloud have together impacted the way of conducting business. There  is a need for global organizations to keep up with the pace of competitors and be...

by Kinshuk D Jhala
Tag: aws
02-Feb-2017

AWS, Big Data

Introduction to Amazon Athena

What is Amazon Athena? Amazon Athena is an analytics and interactive query service that use interactive standard SQL to analyze data stored on Simple Storage Service (S3). It is a serverless service i.e. there is no need to setup the instances for the datastore and manage the infrastructure. Also, there is no need to load data to...

by Shivam Agrawal
Tag: aws
24-Jan-2017

AWS, Technology

Accelerate your Cloud Performance using these 6 Uncommon AWS Services

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been the trailblazer in the cloud computing market since 2006 with its IaaS and PaaS offerings. It currently owns a lion’s share in the public cloud computing market ahead of other competitors like IBM, Microsoft, and Google; and continues to grow its offerings with continuous innovation. In the recent...

by Anuradha Ishwaran
Tag: aws
15-Dec-2016

AWS, DevOps

Kubernetes Namespaces – One Cluster for Different Environments

In one of the project that I was working, I had to set up multiple environments in the same Kubernetes cluster. The environments are namely QA and UAT. The blog will guide the reader on how to segregate different environments in same Kubernetes cluster and have control over each environment in such a way that the other environments...

by Mayank Negi
Tag: aws
13-Dec-2016

AWS, DevOps

Key Considerations for a Successful Application Migration

Cloud migration is no longer a buzzword as organizations are well aware of the benefits of leveraging the cloud. Here are some insights from the 2016 State of IT Report, published by Salesforce Research that emphasize the importance of cloud adoption and migration. 68% of CIOs predict they will spend more on mobile applications, cloud...

by Shweta Sharma
Tag: aws
09-Dec-2016

AWS, DevOps

Why CIOs Should Adopt Containers Technology?

Container service is not new, it was built around ten years ago in Linux environment also known as Linux container (LXC). But today, docker is most popular and has become synonymous to containers. So before talking about some container technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, we have to understand what container service is, and what is...

by Mayur Rastogi
Tag: aws
30-Nov-2016