Reducing your Amazon EC2 bill

Reducing your Amazon EC2 bill

Customer Problem

As an enterprise, small/medium-sized business, or start-up, you commonly use public clouds such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) because of the ease and speed to get new infrastructure without initial capital expenditure. However as your business grows, you soon realize the costs incurred in the public cloud continue to increase over time as your application resource demands grow. Also IO performance is simply unpredictable! You need a solution that offers the same ease and simplicity of Amazon EC2, keeps up with the growing needs of the applications, and provides a controllable, predictable cost structure. Its time to move to your very own private or hybrid cloud environment! Bring some of your workloads in-house with Nimbula Director to enjoy lower opex costs while still being able to leverage a public cloud’s elasticity for bursts when needed.

Cost Benefits

• Pay once for inexpensive, commodity capacity on a private cloud rather than incur a monthly charge for the same capacity when solely using a public cloud.
• Enjoy higher depreciation write-offs by owning private cloud infrastructure hardware.

Capability Benefits

• Improve instance performance capability and predictability by using dedicated hardware.
• Maintain complete control of your applications from bare-metal on up.
• Enable a hybrid cloud approach by having the freedom to utilize public cloud resources only when needed in temporary or periodic situations.
• More visibility into tech support provided by Nimbula as well as your own IT.

Key Functionality

• Migration tools and procedure expertise to quickly and seamlessly transition stateless, scale-out applications from Amazon EC2 to a private commodity cloud managed by Nimbula Director.
• When appropriate federate back into Amazon EC2 with a unified set of APIs, workflows, permissions, and audit trails.
• A rich set of partner solutions to better support the move to private.

Solution Details

Nimbula Director provides a self-service, elastic private cloud on your own dedicated, commodity hardware. By shifting to a self-service, commodity cloud in your enterprise, rather than a traditional enterprise cloud based on premium-priced modules, you're now able to dramatically reduce costs and increase control. In addition your end users experience better levels of service as the switch in infrastructure is completely transparent and performance bottlenecks are removed.

Not only is Nimbula known for its strong product portfolio, we are now offering the Nimbula Cloud Migration Service to allow you to quickly transition to a commodity-based private or hybrid cloud so you can realize its immediate benefits and cost savings. Backed by Nimbula Professional Services, the Nimbula Cloud Migration Service will provide the proper migration methodology including evaluating which instances for specific applications, sequence of migration, and the proper tools and procedures needed to provide a seamless cutover during transition. For more information about Nimbula Professional Services offerings, go to http://nimbula.com/services/consulting.