Explore the complexities of cloud optimization and the unique challenges it presents. Learn why solutions like the emma platform are essential for a future-proof multi-cloud strategy.
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In today's digital landscape, cloud computing is a business necessity. It offers organizations almost unlimited scalability, agility, flexibility, and cost-efficiency. However, effective utilization of cloud services is a critical challenge.
Organizations can face challenges such as managing cloud costs and mitigating security vulnerabilities, both of which can hamper operational efficiency. Also, failure to optimize cloud usage, especially in multi-cloud environments, can lead to underutilized resources, undermining the very benefits the cloud promises.
With companies pouring significant investments into their cloud ecosystems, it is essential to address these challenges. In this blog, we will dive into challenges faced by organizations in optimizing their existing cloud environment and how the emma platform helps overcome these.
Cloud optimization refers to the ability to have a full view of resource allocation in a cloud environment. It is essential for organizations to be able to see detailed resource usage and its corresponding costs in real-time across all providers and services. However, they often lack this centralized visibility, which translates into a sig nificant effort to optimize cloud operations. According to the 2022 Cloud Security Report, 49% of respondents highlighted lack of visibility as the most significant barrier to cloud adoption. It prevents organizations from managing resources, assessing security protocols, identifying governance and compliance issues, and minimizing costs. The emma platform enables organizations to tackle resource allocation issues efficiently. It gives them proactive control over budget and expenditure and potential policy violations. It provides real-time insights into the multi-cloud environment through comprehensive monitoring, analytics, and reporting tools, regardless of services or cloud providers. As a result, organizations can make informed decisions to optimize their cloud environment.
Managing multiple cloud services with different interfaces in a multi-cloud environment can become overwhelming for organizations due to complex infrastructure configuration. According to the Cisco 2022 Global Hybrid Cloud Trends report, 33% of organizations say operational complexity is a significant challenge for hybrid or multi-cloud environments. Moreover, complex containerization and orchestration workloads further complicate cloud environments. Hence, organizations require a comprehensive toolkit for managing complex cloud workloads across providers and services.
The emma platform reduces cloud complexity by unifying the management of compute instances from various cloud providers. It offers cloud deployment, monitoring, optimization, security, compliance, and cost management from a single dashboard.
Moreover, the emma platform streamlines virtual machine transfer between providers and locations. It also offers a service to provision multi-cloud auto-scalable Kubernetes clusters with user-friendly management via K8s dashboard. Users can create backup policies to replicate and recover infrastructure across the multi-cloud environment.
In a multi-cloud environment, cost management can be complicated, especially for large-scale cloud workloads. According to the StormForge 2022 Kubernetes & Cloud Waste survey, 47% of cloud spend goes to waste on average. Some significant reasons include idle, overprovisioned, or underutilized cloud resources. Moreover, cloud providers have complex billing models and pricing structures. Hence, organizations require a robust cloud management tool that provides insight into resource usage and cost breakdown.
Using the emma platform, organizations can easily manage and optimize their cloud costs by analyzing their historical usage and spending patterns. The platform’s unified analytics dashboard also offers real-time spending assessment and forecasting based on performance metrics to mitigate underprovisioning or overutilization of resources. Organizations can configure budget for every project and put resource usage limits. They can also find and provision the least expensive spot instances for short-term tasks in all regions for all supported providers.
Moreover, emma’s machine learning (ML) engine can recommend resource optimization via real-time consumption monitoring. Teams can receive proactive alerts and notifications based on defined optimization policies and actions. As a result, organizations can make timely and informed decisions about the sizing of their cloud instances across providers, efficiently minimize cloud waste, and maximize cost optimization.
In any cloud environment – on-prem, hybrid, or multi, security and compliance always remain a top priority for organizations. According to Snyk’s State of Cloud Security 2022 report, 80% of organizations have faced at least one serious security threat in 2021/2022, especially public sector organizations and startups. These incidents include cloud data leaks, data breaches, cryptomining, environment intrusion, and failed audits.
However, managing cloud security is a serious challenge for several reasons. Each cloud provider has its own security tools, standards, and protocols. Organizations may have poor visibility into their disparate cloud workloads. Or teams may have poor collaboration or inconsistent policy interpretations that can make the cloud environment vulnerable. Hence, organizations can find it difficult to keep track of all security protocols and configurations across providers and services.
The emma platform allows implementing a comprehensive cloud governance strategy for compliance and security across the cloud lifecycle from development to operations. It supports local and global security policies regardless of usage location, offering real-time monitoring and vulnerability management based on industry-standard compliance protocols like SOC, ISO 27001, and GDPR. As a result, organizations are protected against cybersecurity threats and outages.
Organizations turn to cloud solutions to scale their applications and, consequently, maximize their business returns. According to the Cisco 2022 Global Hybrid Cloud Trends report, 42% of organizations use hybrid cloud environments for scalability, allowing them to manage multiple workloads like scalable application development, backup and disaster recovery, cloud bursting, and security processes.
A lack of cloud scalability and performance bottlenecks slows down business growth. Hence, the emma platform is designed to streamline multi-cloud operations via centralized management and automation, facilitating business scalability and operational performance. It enables organizations to switch cloud service providers based on changing demands. They can integrate various third-party applications available on the emma marketplace into their cloud environments to fulfill their security, network, database, DevOps, and analytics needs.
With the emma platform, organizations can optimize their workload distribution effectively, using the platforms’s global network connectivity across multi-cloud environments with guaranteed bandwidth. Moreover, with the Kubernetes container orchestration service, organizations can accommodate growing demands and enhance application performance.
Organizations are increasingly adopting hybrid or multi-cloud solutions for flexibility, scalability, and performance. The emma platform helps them optimize their existing cloud environment by enhancing visibility, simplifying cloud infrastructure management, controlling cloud spend, ensuring security and compliance, and supporting scalability. As a result, organizations can completely outsource their cloud optimization management and focus solely on business development.