This presentation offers a comparison of coud operation optimization solutions Newvem and AWS Trusted Advisor.

1. Amazon Trusted Advisor VS Newvem
Trusted Advisor vs. Newvem

2. High Level Differences
Trusted Advisor Newvem
Holistic coverage of assets, cost & utilization
Approach Fix what’s broken
(with email notifications)
Analyzes resource types Analyzes infrastructure and relations between
Depth of analysis
separately all resource types
Web interface
iPhone + iPad
Delivery methods Web interface
API
Email
Period covered Data retained for 14 days Data retained for 30+ days
Total EC2 usage (by region)
Usage
None Reserved Instance purchase recommendations
Visualization
Reserved Instance usage

3. Insight Comparison
Insights to consider when researching a cloud operational analytics solution
Insight Trusted Advisor Newvem
Reserved Instance • Recommends Heavy RIs only • Recommends light,
recommendation • Data analyzed – based on last medium and heavy RIs
calendar month • Data for analysis –
based on last 30 days
Underutilized • Identification – based on daily • Identification – based
instances CPU average on consistent CPU and
• Saving estimation – refers to on- IO utilization
demand price • Saving estimation –
Based on blended price
of on-demand and RI
prices
Security insights Reports on potential risk in security Identifies resources
groups exposed to risk

4. Exclusive Features and Capabilities
Trusted Advisor Newvem
 RDS  S3 Usage
 IAM Security  Reserved Instances Lifecycle and Utilization
 VPN Tunnel Redundancy  Cost Analysis
 S3 Bucket Logging  Business Groups

5. Questions
Have any questions? Let me know!
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