From pay-per-use to pay-per-abuse

Pay-per-use rocks!
I'm sure we all are already familiar with the on-demand & pay-per-use model as applied to IT. Is has been of tremendous help while executing your IT strategy & has saved you in $1000s by now. No new hardware to be commissioned or salvaged, compute & storage is being ordered as we order pizza for lunch. You select a topping, crust, flavor & boom its ready within few seconds.

This new age consumption model has given choice & power directly in hands of everyone with-in your business & depending on long request/approval cycles are monsters in the past now.

On the hind-side it has bought in a new issue in terms of  resources being used & paid on an hourly basis & is leading towards a Pay-per-abuse issue. Recently had a conversation with few key IT decision makers & the first & foremost point they wanted to discuss was to "How to curtail & control" resources abuse.

Remember you are paying by hour & if your team is not proactive enough you could end up paying good amount of your budget which could have been optimally used elsewhere. With high end compute available in seconds its easy to spring up as many virtual resources.

Sure you will get details of it at the end of month but that's too late already.

Glad to introduce Attribo Cloud Insights to you & you are welcome to see by yourself if it applies to your Cloud IT.

- Vinod 

Operational Insights

Its becoming apparent that having part of your business deployed on Amazon AWS is slowly eating up on your teams time elsewhere. The on-demand paradigm is finally coming to age & hence a need for a tool to occupy this gap. Operational Insights is not a buzzword anymore its the reality for anyone managing their stack on Amazon AWS. With virtual resources growing at a rapid pace, its hard to have a single consolidated view into what, where, who & why.

Billing access to AWS IAM users

Exciting news - AWS Identity and Access Management enables password management and IAM user access to account billing information

AWS Identity and Access Management enables password management and IAM user access to account billing information

We are excited to announce the following new AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) features.

• Customers can now grant IAM users direct access to the Account Activity and/or Usage Reports pages without having to give them access to other AWS resources.

• Customers can now define an account-wide policy in the IAM console that enforces password strength for their IAM users upon password changes.

• IAM users can now use a simple graphical user interface in the IAM console to change their password.

To learn more, visit the Using IAM guide.

is accountability a key to better cloud visibility

have been lately coming across plenty of prospects who complain about visibility & cloud accountability. To greater extent its true as your scaling out needs grow & there has to be a scale out accountability & reasoning as to why , when , by whom, & for how long have to be monitored on a regular basis.


so here we go again & love the fact that we are on right side of the chart but hey feel free to ping me on vinod at attribo dot com , would be glad to discuss as to what aspect of cloud is bothering your business needs. Is it manageability, billing, budgeting, automation, reporting, integration, acl/roles, image certification , backups, security or failover

Cloud Cost Optimization, a real deal?

Cloud Cost Optimization is gaining momentum & excited to mention Attribo Cost Control Center in this context. Cloud is moving beyond manageability & on-demand usage pattern. Its more serious now in terms of businesses running entirely on Amazon & other vendors.


This is adding a pressing need for a Cost Analysis tool to bubble up the unknowns & help project costs involved with selecting a public IaaS like Amazon.


Plenty more to be announced here.

Cloud Cost an issues for all?

"But the published pricing model didn't make many waves because few bothered to do the math."
http://www.informationweek.com/news/cloud-computing/platform/231600672

It has been 3-4 yrs since we all have started deploying & using IaaS stack to suffice different business use cases that we have. Though cloud has been a proponent for on-demand virtual resource utilization it is becoming apparent that it adds up to a huge cost once your deployments become serious & more dedicated.

Came across this article which bubbles up the same with GAE though same pattern is becoming obvious with other vendors like Amazon/Rackspace & more.

Good news, Attribo is spearheading in this direction & soon will announce GA for Attribo Cost Control Center for one to have a much clear & more actionable cost control strategy.