2021-11-08 - Right-sizing is the process of reserving cloud computing instances such as containers, VMs, or Bare Metal with enough resources (RAM, CPU, storage,
Businesses of every shape and size heavily rely on the internet. Cloud and internet are interoperated technologies. Businesses move to cloud for multiple benefits including cost cutting, agility, and operational benefits. They can easily cut infrastructural costs by moving their workload to a cloud environment. Cloud providers often offer various services to organizations after moving their workload on cloud. Also, security on cloud environment is superior to that of on-prem infrastructure.
However, moving workload on cloud infrastructure is beneficial, the challenges that businesses face is choosing the right amount of resource, ensuring that it is enough to handle variable load, and overpayment of unused resources. Over provisioning causes waste of the public cloud environment. These challenges occur as enterprises move their applications directly from on-prem to cloud by replicating the existing VM resource allocation without strategic planning to determine if the application needs all these resources. These challenges have tricky and complex solutions, and to address these challenges Right-Sizing is the perfect solution.
What is Right-Sizing?
Right-Sizing is the process of reserving cloud computing instances such as containers, VMs, or Bare Metal with enough resources (RAM, CPU, storage, & network) to accomplish sufficient performance at lowest cost possible. It allows the enterprise to optimize cloud infrastructure, performance, and cost-efficiency. It ensures that enterprise is getting the most of its cloud infrastructure with minimum spending. Right-Sizing provides deep predictive analysis of workload patterns, delivering enterprises the insights to optimally leverage cloud resources by reducing operational risks and costs.