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AWS re:Invent 2022 - Integrating optimization into your cloud journey (PRT311)

Summary

Omer Masika, a director of solution engineering at Granulate (acquired by Intel), discusses integrating cost and autonomous optimization into the cloud cost journey.
He presents a hierarchy of needs for deploying applications in the cloud, paralleling Maslow's hierarchy, which includes psychology (basic setup), safety and security (smooth transitions and bug-free code), love and belonging (meeting customer demand), self-esteem (cost analysis), and self-actualization (advanced cost optimization).
Masika introduces Granulate's tools for optimization: Gprofiler for code profiling, an agent for real-time OS-level optimization, and Gmaestro for capacity management.
He demonstrates the agent's ability to improve performance and reduce resource consumption in real-time, leading to cost savings.
The tools are designed to be easy to deploy and integrate into existing processes, supporting various environments like Kubernetes, big data workloads, and hybrid scenarios.
Masika emphasizes the importance of integrating optimization tools throughout the development and deployment process, not just at the end.
He provides customer examples where Granulate's tools have led to significant cost savings and performance improvements, even in well-optimized environments.

The talk highlights the importance of considering cost optimization as an integral part of the cloud journey, not just an afterthought.
Granulate's approach to optimization focuses on performance improvement at the OS level, which can lead to cost savings even when traditional cost optimization methods have reached their limits.
The hierarchy of needs presented suggests that organizations often progress through stages of cloud deployment, starting with ensuring basic functionality and moving towards more sophisticated cost and performance optimization strategies.
The real-time demonstration of the optimization agent suggests that significant performance gains can be achieved without additional resource consumption, challenging the common trade-off between performance and cost.
The tools presented by Granulate are designed to be agnostic to the infrastructure, suggesting that they can be used in various cloud environments and for different types of workloads.
The customer examples provided serve as evidence that even companies with advanced cloud optimization strategies can benefit from additional performance optimization tools, indicating a market for such solutions even among mature cloud users.
The session underscores the potential for automation in cloud optimization, which can reduce the manual effort required from DevOps teams and lead to continuous improvement in cost efficiency.