Cloud Operations

Question 1

Purchase models

Answer 1

On demand - scales up and down, expensive per unit cost
Reserved instances - more affordable per unit, less flexible - committed to future use
Spot instances - cheapest. Riskiest as no SLA, can be taken away at moment notice. Best of Bach workloads

Question 2

Spot by Netapp

Answer 2

Optimisation solution that works to automate and reduce cloud compute and costs by using machine learning to enable you to identify spot capacity for production and mission critical workloads.

Spot Cloud analyzer
Spot Eco
Spot Ocean
Spot Elastigroup
Spot PC

Question 3

Spot Cloud Analyzer

Answer 3

Performs detailed analysis of cloud use and cost data to give a comprehensive view. Use Machine learning to identified irregular cloud spend and use patterns. Provides reporting and alerts to resolve issues and stay within planned capacity.

Features: Maintain - uses policies, reporting, alerts and actionable recommendations
Analyze. - see what is being spent and by whom. Current, historical and projected cosgts and use across your cloud
Calculate - an efficiency score for every account in the cloud based on savings that could be made

Benefits: Understanding cloud costs, assess cloud efficiency, maximize cloud ROI

Question 4

Spot ECo

Answer 4

Provides AWS customers automated optimisation for savings

Manages the full lifecycle of AWS commitments (planning, purchasing and reselling)
Analyses millions of data points to identify the configuration of an ideal committed capacity for you.

Benefits:
Full use commitments - maximise ROI on cloud purchases
Manage commitment lifecycles - automate purchase strategies for reserve instances.
Align finance and DevOps -

Question 5

Spot Ocean

Answer 5

Automated cloud infrastructure for containers.
Works with Kubernetes, Amazon EC2, Azure Kubernetes (AKS)

conducts real-time analysis of pod and tasks.
Predicts resource requirements
Manages a mix of spot, reserved and on-demand instances
Use spot.IO advance AI models to predict spot instance removal

Benefits:
Automate container infrastructure
Understand costs
Deliver on SLAs
Minimise costs

Question 6

Spot Elastigroup

Answer 6

Simplifies and automates cloud infrastructure for scale-out applications running on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud

Features: Simplifies scaling policies and identification of peak times to help with the right capacity in advance
Keeps clusters running at best possible performance using an optimal mix of on-demand, spot and reserved
Helps to identify underused resrve instances.
Monitors for spot-instance behaviour to reduce disk of interruption
Matches infrastructure behaviour to workload types.

Benefits: Deliver application performance and availability
Simplify cloud operations
Reduce cloud infrastructure costs

Question 7

SPOT PC

Answer 7

Allows to deliver enterprise ready cloud desktops that are secure, protected and optimised.

Features: provides fullly managed cloud desktops supporting Azure VD or m365 cloud PCs
Removes the need for manual deployment or deep knowledge of Azure.
Provides a global view of all accounts, resources and users under your control.
Includes always on azure security solutions that activate ready-time evaluation

Benefits: Eliminate operations business
Deliver more cloud desktops at less cost
Realise predictable reliable costs
Enjoy easy application management