Amazon Tool Helps Shape Your Cloud Workload

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Charles Babcock.

Amazon Web Services launched a beta service called Trusted Advisor to help customers configure their workloads during its Re:Invent Show last November. This week the company made it available for a 30-day free trial.

Given the complexity of the Amazon services and server instances, Trusted Advisor is sorely needed to help customers, especially newcomers, navigate through the tangle of details. Several other vendors also provide a service similar to Trusted Advisor, and some, such as Cloudyn, CloudCheckr, Uptime Software and Cloud Cruiser, offer more features. But since AWS remains the fountainhead of best practices information, Trusted Advisor is likely to gain authority…

AWS says Trusted Advisor is drawing on the aggregated experience of several hundred thousand users when it responds to a customer query. The first thing Trusted Advisor does is analyze a customer’s instance based on its data; it then makes recommendations on whether the customer can save money with a more suitable server instance. Remember, Amazon server instances come in a bewildering variety of configurations; reserved instances have first and second generations of the same types, even when a different type of server instance will yield better performance characteristics…

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