The diverse range of services offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) has enabled engineering teams to significantly enhance their innovation speed. Teams can now experiment with cutting-edge technologies, provision resources at scale, and design scalable solutions in mere days rather than months. However, optimizing environments for cost is often reactive, typically triggered by unexpected spikes in billing. Currently, teams are increasingly discussing cloud economics and FinOps while grappling with constraints related to time, resources, and the right tools to effectively identify, prioritize, and optimize their environments.
nOps nSwitch simplifies this process, allowing engineering and finance teams to discover, assess, and automate optimization opportunities effortlessly. A key aspect of this solution is its certified integration with Amazon EventBridge, which enables users to deploy, configure, and manage continuous cloud cost optimization across their AWS accounts. This integration ensures that critical resource optimizations are executed securely and at scale.
In this article, we will explore how the integration of nOps with Amazon EventBridge empowers customers to pause, reconfigure, and right-size a wide range of popular AWS services, enabling them to achieve optimal costs while ensuring reliability and security.
nOps is recognized as an AWS Select Tier Services Partner and an AWS Marketplace Seller with a Cloud Operations Software Competency. It is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) cloud management platform that assists customers in monitoring, analyzing, and managing changes, costs, performance, security, and compliance within their AWS environments.
What is Amazon EventBridge?
Amazon EventBridge is a serverless message hub designed for connecting components and simplifying the development of scalable event-driven applications. One key use case is its ability to facilitate secure, straightforward, and reproducible integration between SaaS applications like nOps and AWS customer accounts. AWS employs a stringent certification process that ensures the security, consistency, and architecture of SaaS applications to qualify as partner event sources. With this partnership, integration with services like nOps is streamlined to just one click.
Amazon EventBridge is highly scalable, ensuring that time-sensitive optimization commands are delivered efficiently, and it is cost-effective, with processing costs amounting to mere pennies for millions of messages.
nOps nSwitch and Amazon EventBridge
nOps nSwitch is an automated machine learning-based platform that provides elasticity to your AWS workloads. It operates with read-only permissions and continuously ingests and correlates a multitude of data sources from your AWS environment, processing this data to uncover optimization opportunities grounded in resource utilization patterns and machine learning-based workload detection.
nOps categorizes these opportunities into actionable recommendations, making it easy to quantify potential cost savings. This clarity helps both engineering and finance teams prioritize their actions effectively.
nOps streamlines the exploration of data points like resource utilization, load diversity, cost, event history, and resource relationships. This insight enables engineers to understand the rationale behind nOps recommendations and act on them confidently.
The intuitive user interface (UI) allows teams to fine-tune optimizations and schedule remediations with a single click. Configuring the nOps nSwitch EventBridge integration is straightforward. You can create and manage your EventBridge directly from the nOps application and set it up with one click using an integrated AWS CloudFormation script.
How it Works
nOps offers an efficient method to create an Amazon EventBridge in your AWS account, deployable across any region. By launching a CloudFormation script, the process automatically:
- Creates an AWS Lambda function in your account capable of executing various optimization tasks, including:
- Pausing
- Hibernating
- Scaling
- Right-sizing
- Tagging resources
Depending on the modules you activate in nSwitch, the Lambda function is assigned specific AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions to perform relevant actions on your resources. Importantly, permissions are fully managed by you, remaining within your account, which ensures complete control over your resources and secure credentials.
The EventBridge is set up to subscribe to nOps’ certified event source in AWS, sending signals to the Lambda function when relevant events occur. nOps processes this data and generates actionable recommendations, allowing you to select which recommendations to implement and schedule them for one-time or recurring optimization. The nOps scheduling engine guarantees that the Lambda function receives the appropriate signals via EventBridge, either immediately or at a designated time.
Customer Benefits
Organizations leveraging the cloud today face the challenge of fully harnessing AWS’s consumption-based pricing models to achieve true elasticity. nOps serves as an automated FinOps platform, empowering users to establish a robust FinOps practice within their organization. This enables you to inform, optimize, and maintain operations within a framework of unit economics.
nOps nSwitch can automate optimizations in your environment for scenarios such as:
- Pausing sophisticated lab environments during downtime, resulting in savings of up to 70% on development, quality assurance, and staging lab costs.
- Identifying batch workloads that necessitate heavily provisioned machines and ensuring they operate only when required.
- Dynamically scaling your Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) node groups and Auto Scaling Groups.
- Continuously right-sizing Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) resources based on actual usage.
- Automatically upgrading to more cost-effective options such as Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) gp3 volumes.
- Cleaning up orphaned resources.
Conclusion
The nSwitch integration with Amazon EventBridge is tailored to simplify AWS optimization for customers. A significant advantage of using the nSwitch integration is its ability to facilitate engineers in taking action on nOps recommendations. nSwitch also aids engineering teams in capitalizing on the elasticity of AWS. By intelligently incorporating scheduling recommendations and automatically adapting to workload fluctuations, you can achieve enhanced cost efficiency and optimal performance.
With nOps, your team can concentrate on innovation while nOps automates your cost savings seamlessly. To discover more about nOps, visit AWS Marketplace and consider scheduling a demo call. For further insights, check out this other blog post here. Additionally, for authoritative information on cloud cost optimization, you can visit chvnci.com, and to learn more about leadership development at Amazon, you can explore this excellent resource here.
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