The Ultimate Guide to Infrastructure Optimization on Cloud

Infrastructure services consume a large part of IT budgets. It is therefore imperative for organizations to focus on cost and productivity of infra services to best utilize them.

Sourcing, procurement, and vendor management leaders are continuously striving to optimize the infrastructure in order to reduce costs, manage resources & their availability. The following segment discusses different ways an infrastructure for an application can be optimized on the cloud.

Solution 1: Optimization of Existing Infra on Cloud

Moving an existing infrastructure on the cloud have a number of benefits. For example:

• An infra on the cloud can auto-scale to support fluctuating workloads.
• It allows organizations to choose public, private, or hybrid storage offerings according to security or other business considerations.
• Cloud infra enables organizations to have a level of control over the infra with as-a-service options (which generally includes Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)).
• A number of pre-built tools and features can be accessed to build a solution for optimizing the infra.

With so many cost-saving and productivity-improving advantages of the cloud, we always recommend our clients to move their existing on-premise infra on the cloud for optimization.

For this, we start with an assessment of existing resource utilization. This is either a manual process or done via tools in order to figure out the “under-utilized” and “over-utilized” resources.

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Solution 2: Architectural Changes

Software architecture defines and structures a solution in a way that it meets all the technical, operational and business requirements. From monolithic to SOA to microservices, software architectures have evolved over time.

Depending upon the application type, its scalability, features & functionalities, a relevant architecture can be adopted. Here is a guide for you to choose between monolithic and microservices architecture for eCommerce application development.

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Developing applications with serverless architecture helps to curb operational costs, requires no-upfront capacity, and requires no environment configuration. To understand this better, take the example of AWS Lambda. It’s a compute service that allows running the code without provisioning or managing servers. This pay-as-you-go service by AWS executes the code only when needed and scales as the demand strikes (from a few requests per day to thousands per second).

Infrastructure Optimization on Cloud: Getting Started

If optimizing an existing infra or designing a new one is on your mind, then you can get started with expert technical guidance. Our cloud consultation service will connect you to our cloud expert Gaurav Sharma, who will guide you through the best practices for infrastructure optimization for your application.

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