Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the leading cloud infrastructure platform on the market today. While AWS offers platform services aimed at developers, at its core it offers rich cloud-based infrastructure services. AWS provides everything from public DNS, directory, and database services, to monitoring and alerting services. Each of these services is designed to reduce costs and complexity for the enterprise.
Organizations are moving to AWS to reduce cost and move what traditionally was a capital expense to an operational expense. Traditional on-premise data centers require huge amounts of initial investments as well as the staff to maintain the equipment. Moving to AWS eliminates both initial costs and any ongoing maintenance costs and allows you to pay only for the services you consume. With a shared security model, AWS is responsible for securing and patching their networking equipment, physical storage, and hypervisor hosts, which decreases business’ administrative costs and allows your IT team to focus on the applications.
As our customers transition to the cloud we know they need a solution that provides a clear picture of what’s in their cloud environment with actionable intelligence, automation, and user accountability. That’s why LookingPoint offers our AWS customers complete visibility and control of what’s running in their environment using an enterprise cloud management platform. This clear picture of what’s in our customer’s environment is critical for controlling cost, increasing security, and optimizing resources. We deliver insight into to their billing details, configurations, permissions and any changes made to the environment.
The platform is easy to deploy and optimizes utilization and costs through automated reporting, analysis and alerting. It also assures security in your cloud environment, mitigating vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. With over 500 Best Practice Checks integrated customers can confidently optimize and automate cloud investments.
Learn more about how you can leverage LookingPoint to optimize your AWS utilization and spend.
Written By: Eden Reid, LookingPoint Marketing Manager