Optimizations
Boosting your cloud efficiency
Optimizations revitalize cloud infrastructure, bringing real business value quickly
Like any living system, cloud infrastructures gradually lose performance, accumulating suboptimal configurations, patches, workarounds, and security weaknesses. The technical debt in the system grows.
Just like the bottom of a ship, over time, is overgrown with shells, corrosion, and algae, it needs cleaning from time to time – or the boat will surely sink. Cloud solutions are much the same: the work is required to keep them in order, to maintain and modernize them.
Carrying out periodic optimizations once every six months or a year is like a health check-up for your project.
What do we often find? Security weak points, service slowdowns, risks of crashes and non-operability, problems with the UX, and of course, high costs.
As certified cloud experts, we identify and eliminate accumulated problems in the system. We effectively optimize Cost, Performance, Security & Reliability – individually or all at once, adhering to AWS's Well-Architected Framework.
We carry out all these optimizations as one-off projects or regularly as part of our Cloud Management service. Sometimes, a specific optimization request and its successful implementation kindle a long-term partnership and more complex joint projects.
Cost Optimization
A typical, vital customer request is: here are our cloud costs – can you help us reduce them?
First, we look at the client's infrastructure through an engineering lens
We study the structure and find out the nuances of your workloads. We inspect what changes have been introduced into the infrastructure over time, to reorganize its costs optimally. The careful choice and tuning of specialized vendor services brings savings without sacrifices in performance or security.
In addition, we make periodic reservations of cloud resources. We know the specifics of reserving capacities from a vendor and getting discounts, which can go up to 50%.
The optimizations bring actual savings. And, unlike many other companies specializing in delivering cloud solutions, we do not earn on the volume of your payments to the vendor.
Here are some of the cost-saving techniques we use:
- Granular cost allocation
- Team-level budget tracking
- Benchmarking against industry
- Rightsizing instances & services
- Discounts via centralized buying process
- Governance and control of cloud usage
- Budget alerts implementation
Cost Optimization can be a one-off project, but all these FinOps works are also done within ongoing Cloud Management services.
Performance Optimization
Whatever the IT sector your cloud architecture serves – E-commerce, complex ML computation, gaming, significant marketing events, and campaigns – the crucial quality of the product is speed. We all hate a slow UX. Every component must be optimized, every inefficiency chiseled away.
How do you know that your cloud infrastructure needs a performance boost? The telltale signs are:
- high latency
- poor performance during traffic spikes
- slow webpage loading
- suffering application UX
- instability of websites and applications
- user complaints, rage, and fury
We select cloud services that best meet the needs of your project. Multiple solutions and features are often required to improve performance across a workload.
Our fluency in system administration and cloud development, backed with AWS experience and certifications, lets us take full advantage of AWS’s Well-Architected framework and implement excellent optimizations.
Performance indicators and benchmarks are established before the optimization. Frontends, web or application, servers, databases, storages, and workload-related metrics. The improvements are measured upon completion.
How we optimize performance:
- Finding loads patterns
- Autoscaling and rightsizing
- Code optimizations
- Relocating workloads to appropriate geographical regions
- Using Edge Computing for lower latency
- Computing optimizations for instances, containers, functions
- Data storage improvements
- Database performance tuning and queries optimizations
- Network: optimizing for latency, throughput requirements, jitter, and bandwidth
Performance Optimization is also an integral part of SysOps role in our Cloud Management comprehensive service.
Security & Reliability Optimization
Paraphrasing a saying, there are two types of people: those who take security and backups seriously and those who soon will. Sometimes an incident opens the eyes to the importance of project safety.
You can always count on us if you’ve had an incident and the damage is done – we’ll put out the fire and help ensure it doesn’t happen again.
Cloud vendors like AWS follow the shared responsibility model: they secure the cloud hardware and services, but the security of your code infrastructure is your responsibility. But with the optimization service, you can delegate it to us.
Security weaknesses and vulnerabilities appear sporadically in every system. Optimization is vital to find and fix them in time.
Our team is AWS-certified and experienced to competently perform optimizations, and this is how we do it:
- Using the built-in security features of AWS
- Managing identities, access, and controls
- Implementing compute and container security
- Securing the network
- Application deployment security
- Managing compliance requirements
- Logging and detection of suspicious activity
- Protection of data at transit and rest and encryption control
- Logging system events for traceability
- Reducing risks by minimizing human access to data
You can be calm and content with a system optimized by us, scanned for possible security issues, and ready and protected from threats.
As with any optimization, this work can be done continuously within our Cloud Management service by SecOps and SysOps specialists.
Optimization stages
Audit
After a brief introduction to your project, our team reviews and benchmarks the current infrastructure to identify its weaknesses.
Advise & Plan
We discuss your goals, performance, and resource thresholds, lay out the optimization options, and arrive at the plan for a rebuild together. This requires working with your development team.
Optimize
We implement the optimization of the workload infrastructure for excellence, comparing its results with the target criteria and benchmarks, and provide a final report.
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