S3 Optimization

Some organisations struggle to contain their S3 Storage costs through a combination of failures around planning and monitoring. This could be due to the complete absence or incomplete application of both important steps.

When you are responsible for the delivery and maintenance of critical or complex applications built on cloud infrastructure, the chances are you are relying on multiple in house engineers or teams of engineers, devops and external consultants to keep your network and applications operating at peak performance for your end users.

Software development can be a long and complex process. The more you can map out and plan, the greater chance you have of success.

There is no question that keeping accurate GCP architecture diagrams is essential for well managed and easily communicated network infrastructure.

When you are working with Microsoft Azure, there is no doubt you appreciate the value and necessity of great Azure cloud architecture diagrams. Diagrams provide a visual cue for better communication and understanding of your cloud infrastructure at all levels of your organisation, from management down to freshly onboarded engineers and consultants.

When moving your data and applications to AWS or developing a solution from scratch, you are most likely going to be faced with the challenge of selecting the most appropriate of the multitude of database options offered by AWS.

If you used Arcentry in the past to document your cloud infrastructure, the closure of the service earlier this year probably came as a bit of a shock.

While quite a newcomer having only been established in 2018, the decision to shut the doors at short notice potentially left a lot of people high and dry that were using the service to diagram their cloud infrastructure.