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Compute Copilot Now Supports AWS ECS
Many organizations are currently overspending on the cloud — and EC2 is typically the biggest culprit, driving 30-50+% of costs.To tackle this problem, Compute Copilot now integrates with ECS (Elastic...
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ECS Cost Optimization: How to Reduce Your AWS Bill
With cloud spending forecasted to hit $1 trillion by 2027, EC2 is often the most expensive item on your AWS bill. ECS is the most widely-used EC2 container orchestration service, but it presents some...
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Mastering Spot in EKS: Lifecycle of a Spot Refresh, PDBs, & Best Practices
When you think about AWS Spot instances in EKS, the first thing that comes to mind is interruption. But in reality, Spot can be as reliable as On-Demand — with discounts reaching up to 90%!At nOps, we...
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NEW Enhanced Showback Offers Unparalleled Visibility into your Cloud Spend
The AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR) records every billable resource in your cloud environment. This includes every single EC2, S3, Reserved Instance, Savings Plan, data transfer fee, and more. If...
View ArticleNEW Streamlined AWS Instance Selection Based On Workload Requirements
Why do engineers still have to know all of the different EC2 instance types? With nOps, choosing instance types is now effortless. Just specify your workload requirements once, and we will...
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Spot vs. Savings Plans: How to Get Discounts Across All Of Your AWS Spend
AWS Savings Plans offer a discount from On-Demand for a specific usage commitment. On the other hand, AWS Spot instances offer steeper discounts, but aren’t guaranteed to be available.If you’re...
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How To Rightsize Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs): The Essential Guide
EC2 instances not being correctly sized can quickly lead to unnecessary expenses. Rightsizing is critical to optimize costs and stability. However, rightsizing a single EC2 instance is one thing —...
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Cluster Autoscaler Lifecycle Management & Cost Optimization, Part 1: Pod...
Managing Kubernetes clusters efficiently is crucial for optimizing costs without compromising performance and availability. Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) coupled with Cluster Autoscaler...
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Horizontal vs. Vertical Scaling: HPA, VPA & Beyond
Kubernetes offers an optimal environment for orchestrating containerized applications, featuring robust tools to optimize resource usage and reduce costs. A key player in this optimization game is...
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AWS EKS Vs. ECS: The Ultimate Guide
In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, containerization has emerged as a cornerstone of application deployment and management. By encapsulating applications and their dependencies into...
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Stop Idle EC2 Instances With One Click
AWS accounts often accumulate unused EC2 instances over time. These instances, often remnants of workload migrations, auto-scaling misconfigurations, developmental tests, or orphaned resources from...
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How To Choose AWS EC2 Instance Types For Cost Optimization
AWS EC2 Instance Types: How to Select The Right One Proper instance selection for workloads is an important decision with significant implications on development. In this article, we’ll go through the...
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Introducing EBS Volume Cleanup
Finding and Deleting Orphaned EBS Volumes is Now a Breeze When EC2 instances are routinely spun up and down, orphaned EBS volumes are a common oversight that commonly results in substantial cloud...
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AWS ECS vs. EKS vs. Fargate: The Essential Guide
Amazon Web Services offers over 200 services. These include Amazon Elastic Compute Service (ECS), Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), and AWS Fargate for deploying and managing containers. Although...
View ArticleLast month in AWS: Key Updates for Cost Optimization
Amazon Web Services (AWS) frequently updates its 200+ products and services for improved user experience and performance. With dozens of announcements each month, from minor tweaks to new service...
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Karpenter And nOps Are Better Together
Karpenter offers a lot of advantages over Cluster Autoscaler, enhancing pod placement for improved instance utilization and lower compute costs. It also helps seamlessly integrate cost-effective Spot...
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Top 9 Kubecost Alternatives For Kubernetes Cost Management
Understanding your cloud costs has become increasingly complex, particularly within high-growth, cloud-native containerized environments. And finding the right Kubernetes cost management platform can...
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New Karpenter IAM permissions: Find Out What’s Changed
Karpenter has emerged as the most advanced node scheduling technology for EKS currently available. And the Karpenter team has been hard at work making this open-source Kubernetes autoscaler even...
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Optimizing AWS Auto Scaling Groups: Instance Management and Instance Refresh
AWS Auto Scaling is an essential tool for enhancing application availability, fault tolerance and cost-efficiency. There are 6 tabs on the AWS Auto Scaling details page in the AWS console. We’ll focus...
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New Warm Pool support for nOps Copilot
We’re excited to unveil new Warm Pool support for Copilot for ASGs. Now, Auto Scaling Groups with Warm Pools enabled are compatible with Compute Copilot, so you can benefit from Spot savings across...
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