Whitepaper for Densify by Jason Bloomberg
Psst! Your Cloud Utilization Sucks! Why Automation is Critical to Cloud Optimization
Nothing personal, but your cloud utilization sucks. Of course, so does everyone else’s.
Trying to manually select the perfect EC2 instance type (or similar for clouds other than AWS) is impossible.
There are many different permutations to consider. Application demands change based on customer whims, seasons, business cycles, and other external forces—and such change is incessant.
Simply put, manual cloud planning simply doesn’t work in today’s modern, cloud-first environments. It leads to massive overprovisioning. And remember, you don’t pay for what you use in the cloud, you pay for what you provision.
There is a better way, of course—leveraging machine learning to optimize instance type selections in real time, automatically.
It’s time for your cloud resource utilization not to suck.
Read the entire article at https://www.densify.com/articles/increase-cloud-resource-utilization.
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