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ECS cluster with customizable blend of on-demand, spot and reserved instances for granular workload placement

Spot by NetApps’s Ocean now makes it easy to run your ECS tasks on any combination of on-demand, spot and reserved instances all within a single cluster. Ocean provides Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) users with an automated, serverless container experience. Previously, control over the underlying instances’ pricing model was limited to utilizing reserved instances and spot instances only.

Reserved instances - How to leverage them without needing to predict the future

As we discussed in our previous post, the comprehensive visibility into your cloud spend provided by Cloud Analyzer allows you to confidently make decisions on how to best optimize your cloud. But when it comes time to actually optimizing your cloud compute spend, taking advantage of reserved instances – a pricing model that offers steep discounts in exchange for long-term commitment – many potential users still hesitate and for good cause.

Deploy your Kubernetes clusters on-premises with AWS Outposts

Spot by NetApp is excited to announce our designation as an AWS Outposts Ready Partner, as part of the (Amazon Web Services) AWS Service Ready Program. Ocean by Spot can now be deployed on AWS Outposts, bringing the serverless container experience to workloads that require the performance, low latency and availability of on-premise.

Managing your cloud spend - from problem identification to problem solving

As we continue from our previous post on FinOps vs. DevOps let’s review the primary challenge facing all cloud consumers – identifying and managing current and potential cloud waste. In other words, understanding how efficient your cloud strategy and implementation actually is.. Controlling your cloud spend through a simple visualization is the first step to tackle the problem. Cloud Analyzer, a Spot by NetApp cost optimization tool, is a great starting point.

Introducing a more efficient way to re-provision microservices infrastructure

Ocean by Spot provides key functions that deliver a serverless infrastructure experience for containerized applications by taking care of auto scaling, right sizing and pricing optimization. These features enable users to focus on their applications while the infrastructure is automatically provisioned and managed by Ocean.

Kubernetes Container Security

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication on Container Security provides a comprehensive review of the major risks for core components of a container system. One of the most obvious objects of concern (alongside a host of other things to keep a good security professional up at night) is, of course, the containers running on your platform. Container security is obviously critical to your applications and data.

Optimize your cloud for Kubernetes day 2 operations

At Spot, we’re seeing more customers expand their Kubernetes operations, running production workloads with success and seeing positive improvements in performance and agility. Now, these companies are looking to optimize Kubernetes Day 2 operations, with a goal of cost optimization and infrastructure efficiency. Ocean by Spot gives users the leverage to take full advantage of the cloud resources in their container environments.