An Intellyx Brain Candy Brief
Yes, there are a variety of cloud management options out there that can do a hundred integration, performance tuning and automated multi-cloud deployment things Sunshower.io doesn’t. That’s ok.
This startup focused on one thing: allowing developers and IT professionals to rapidly review cloud utilization and right-size their AWS EC2 implementations for cost reduction with a few clicks and no consultative pressure. (Azure and GCP capabilities are also on the way, they say.)
Sort of like a discount travel site where you plan trips ala Skyscanner or Kayak, Sunshower.io shows you a list of all your global AWS instances — as well as on a globe — by geo or account groupings, and shows up-front the amount of money you will save if you allow their engine to make the recommended allocations for CPU, GPU, IOPs, storage, memory usage, and so on.
As more companies start to travel to cloud-native architectures and Kubernetes-based container deployments, they are finding that cloud costs can rapidly balloon with the proliferation of so much on-demand scaling, if instances are not carefully throttled. Their tool can read historical EC2 usage data, and ingest data trends from lots of monitoring and profiling tools such as New Relic and Datadog to create a variable performance envelope of targeted usage levels across all the dimensions for which you could get dinged with fees.
Of course, the service itself would naturally need to be inexpensive in terms of low flat capacity-based fee structures, as well as required engineering labor to get started. You just fill out a brief form, then book a journey to the cloud and save.
© 2019 Intellyx, LLC. Intellyx publishes the bi-weekly Cortex newsletter, and advises business executives, IT leaders and enterprise software vendors on their digital transformation initiatives. At the time of writing, New Relic is a current customer, and Microsoft (Azure) and AWS are former Intellyx customers. None of the other vendors mentioned in this article are Intellyx customers.
