This week, nOps launched grouped recommendations by EC2 resources. With this new feature, nOps provides multiple EC2 recommendations for a single EC2 resource as a group which comes directly from smart nOps AI engine. These robust recommendations help you see the maximum savings opportunities that can be availed with just a few clicks by setting up the desired schedule from the list of recommendations.  

The EC2 recommendations are a part of the nOps ShareSave program, and you can find the EC2 recommendations in the List of Opportunities section. Each EC2 recommendation consists of an Opportunity Name, Instance Type , Account Name, Region, Schedule (Not Scheduled or Scheduled), Total Savings, and an Action to schedule the recommendation.

To see your own EC2 Recommendations in nOps, see EC2 Recommendations.

This week, nOps launched RDS Cluster Scheduling. With this new feature, you can now schedule entire RDS clusters in just a few clicks. You can find the RDS clusters to schedule in the Create Schedule modal on the Scheduler page. In the last version, RDS recommendations only provided RDS instances recommendations.

The RDS recommendations are a part of the nOps ShareSave program, and you can find the RDS recommendation in the List of Opportunities section. Each RDS recommendation consists of an Opportunity Name, RDS Type (Single Instance and Cluster), Instance Size, Account Name, Region, Schedule (Not Scheduled or Scheduled), New Config (Recommended Configuration), Total Savings, and an Action to schedule the recommendation.

You can also click on the opportunity name to see the details of the usage and the recommendation in the form of line charts. To schedule a recommendation, simply click on the Schedule button, give your schedule a name and click create, all other fields are populated automatically.

To see your own RDS Recommendations in nOps, see RDS Recommendations. 

nOps RDS Scheduler now provides Metadata of Database Instances

nOps RDS Scheduler now provides nOps users the ability to see the metadata of the RDS database instances in the recommendations. To see the metadata of database instances, go to ShareSave > List of Opportunities > Amazon Relational Database Service > RDS Scheduler > [Database Instance] and click on any recommendation to see the metadata.

Alongside metadata, you can also see the details of the database connections, CPU utilization, and the recommendation in the form of line charts with Database Connections on the y-axis and the time of day on the x-axis. 

The RDS recommendations are a part of the nOps ShareSave program, and you can find the RDS recommendation in the List of Opportunities section on the ShareSave page.

To see your own RDS Recommendations in nOps, see RDS Recommendations.

nOps Scheduler for RDS Scheduling now Groups Recommendations by Database Instances

nOps RDS Scheduler now groups recommendations by database instances to allow greater visibility and control over the recommendation. nOps can offer multiple recommendations for the same instance or cluster, and you have the ability to choose which recommendation to implement. The grouping of recommendations based on database instances will allow you to quickly grasp the difference in recommendations and choose the best recommendation according to your requirements. 

The RDS recommendations are a part of the nOps ShareSave program, and you can find the RDS recommendation in the List of Opportunities section. Each RDS recommendation consists of an Opportunity Name, RDS Type (Single Instance and Cluster), Instance Size, Account Name, Region, Schedule (Not Scheduled or Scheduled), New Config (Recommended Configuration), Total Savings, and an Action to schedule the recommendation.

To see your own RDS Recommendations in nOps, see RDS Recommendations.

This week nOps launched a feedback model in nOps Resource Scheduler recommendations. With this new feature, you can mark Resource Scheduler recommendations as appropriate to implement or not.

The feedback will help you: point out recommendations that you want your team to implement right away, or block out recommendations that you feel are not ready to be implemented for any reason. Your feedback will also help nOps AI to improve the recommendations further.

To see your own Resource Scheduler recommendations in nOps, see Resource Scheduler Recommendations. To learn more about Resource Scheduler recommendations, visit the website.

nOps Announces ShareSave RDS Recommendations

nOps ShareSave now provides customers with RDS recommendations. The RDS recommendations clearly describe the optimization approach you should take and shows the recommendations to implement.

The RDS recommendations are a part of the nOps ShareSave program, and you can find the RDS recommendation in the List of Opportunities section. Each RDS recommendation consists of an Opportunity Name, RDS Type (Single Instance and Cluster), Instance Size, Account Name, Region, Schedule (Not Scheduled or Scheduled), New Config (Recommended Configuration), Total Savings, and an Action to schedule the recommendation.

You can also click on the opportunity name to see the details of the usage and the recommendation in the form of line charts. To schedule a recommendation, simply click on the Schedule button, give your schedule a name and click create.

To see your own RDS Recommendations in nOps, see RDS Recommendations. 

Starting this week, nOps ShareSave Auto Scaling Group recommendations now also provide you the metadata of the Auto Scaling Group along with the recommendations. The metadata for each Auto Scaling Group includes the name, instances, region, maximum amount of instances, the minimum amount of instances, the desired capacity of instances, group creation date, and the associated tags.

nOps Auto Scaling Group Recommendations allow you to determine your group's idle resources using statistical analysis based on the group’s utilization data. It also allows you to automatically reconfigure your autoscaling group based on actual usage. With nOps Auto Scaling Group recommendation you also get the most optimal personalized configuration based on the historical utilization data that allows you to keep only the amount of resources you need running.

To learn more about nOps Auto Scaling Group Recommendations, visit the website.

nOps ShareSave Auto Scaling Groups Introduces Hot Recommendations

This week, nOps launched the Hot Recommendations feature in ShareSave Auto Scaling Groups recommendations. These recommendations are some of the most lucrative cost-cutting opportunities for nOps customers.

The addition of this new feature does not affect the functionality of the nOps ShareSave AutoScaling Groups Recommendations, it simply adds more variety to the existing recommendations and allows you to schedule resources with more confidence.

To learn more about nOps Auto Scaling Group Recommendations, visit the website.

nOps Scheduler now supports the scheduling of KMS Encrypted EBS Volumes with the help of EventBridge. To schedule KMS Encrypted resources with the nOps scheduler, all you need to do is to connect the KMS ARN with the EventBridge and nOps Scheduler will take care of the rest.

Trying to schedule encrypted resources without connecting a KMS ARN with the EventBridge can result in undesired effects.

To connect the KMS ARN with the EventBridge, Go to the nOps > Organization Settings > Integrations > EventBridge and click Add Key in KMS Stack. You will be redirected to the CloudFormation Stack creation page of your AWS console. Provide your KMS ARN and click Create Stack.

To learn more, see documentation.

nOps Unveils New Visualization for Auto Scaling Groups Recommendations in ShareSave

You can see One Time Configuration and Dynamic Configuration recommendations separately in Auto Scaling Group Recommendations. With this new visualization, you can easily keep track of the type of recommendations and your selected configurations. The new visualization also offers you the ability to see the number of schedules implemented on a resource. 

Each recommendation that you see in one configuration section will have an equivalent recommendation in the other configuration section, the only difference will be the configuration.

To learn more about nOps Auto Scaling Groups recommendations, see website.

nOps Now Provides a Feedback Model in Auto Scaling Groups Recommendation

This week nOps launched a feedback model in nOps Auto Scaling Groups recommendation. With this new feature, you can mark Auto Scaling Groups recommendation as appropriate to implement or not quite right.

The feedback will help you: point out recommendations that you want your team to implement right away, or block out recommendations that you feel are not ready to be implemented for any reason. Your feedback will also help nOps AI to further improve the recommendation.

To learn more about nOps Auto Scaling Groups recommendations, see website.

You can now use nOps Scheduler to hibernate EC2 instances and then bring them back to life when you need them. The hibernation process stores the in-memory state of the instance, along with its private and elastic IP addresses, allowing it to pick up exactly where it left off. While creating a schedule, simply toggle the Hibernate option and nOps Scheduler will hibernate the scheduled resources instead of stopping them.

When you hibernate an instance, Amazon EC2 signals the operating system to perform hibernation (suspend-to-disk). Hibernation saves the contents from the instance memory (RAM) to your Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) root volume. Amazon EC2 persists the instance's EBS root volume and any attached EBS data volumes.

The addition of this new feature does not affect the functionality of the nOps Scheduler, it simply adds more diversity into the nOps Scheduler. The scheduling process overall is still the same as it was before. You can create a schedule directly from the nOps Scheduler, or you can use the nOps ShareSave - Resource Scheduler recommendations to automatically configure the recommended schedules.

To learn more, visit our website or read the documentation.

This week, nOps launched a new set of scheduling recommendations on the ShareSave dashboard for Auto Scaling Groups. For each Auto Scaling group, these scheduling recommendations provide the details of the current configuration, instance type, and associate account name, the number of allocated resources(nodes), active resources(nodes), price per hour, ideal number of resources(nodes), and the total savings that you can get from acting on the scheduling recommendations.

Each Auto Scaling Group recommendation offers two types of scheduling configurations: One Time Configuration and Dynamic Configuration. One Time Configurations are standard, once you configure a one-time schedule with a specific number of desired nodes it will remain the same until you change it. Dynamic Configurations on the other hand reduce the allocated resources on a daily basis according to the number of active resources each day. Click on any Auto Scaling Group recommendation to see the details of how each configuration will impact the resources(nodes) in the Auto Scaling Group.

Dynamic Configurations allow you to save substantially more —compared to One Time Configurations— by adjusting the allocated resources to exactly match the active resources each day. The decision to use One Time Configuration or Dynamic Configuration is up to you, according to your use case. To implement the scheduling recommendation for an Auto Scaling Group, click on the “Schedule” button and simply select the configuration type.

To learn more about ShareSave, see documentation, ShareSave Risk-Free Commitment Management, ShareSave Scheduler, and ShareSave Container Optimization.

Starting this week, nOps Consolidated Weekly Report now also provides Autoscaler Recommendations. With this new feature, users get Autoscale Groups Recommendations directly in their inbox with estimated savings, opportunity name, and a breakdown of savings against each opportunity. Each opportunity is clickable and leads to the nOps Scheduler page where you can see more in-depth details.

With the help of this upgraded Consolidated Weekly Report, the users don't have to manually fetch these details by logging into the nOps, since at the start of every week they would get all of the important insights sent directly to them via email as soon as they start their week.

You can now access nOps ShareSave Dashboard without waiting for the rest of the cloud data to be ingested after completing the onboarding. Going forward, when nOps start ingesting data from your cloud accounts, the first thing it would do is ingest the data required to populate the ShareSave Dashboard and get it running. It only takes up to 5 minutes for the data to ingest and for you to start looking into the savings with ShareSave. 

You can access the ShareSave Dashboard from the menu at the top in the nOps platform. On the ShareSave Dashboard you will get a Savings Summary with the estimated total savings that you can get if you implement nOps recommendations. On the ShareSave Dashboard, nOps allows you to reduce costs and save money with a List of Risk-Free Commitments (EC2, RDS) that you can automate. ShareSave also provides a List of Graviton recommendations, Resource Scheduler recommendations in order to scheduler resources to stop automatically based on a schedule, and New Recommendations for Auto Scaling Groups.

To learn more about ShareSave, see documentation, ShareSave Risk-Free Commitment Management, ShareSave Scheduler, and ShareSave Container Optimization.

Starting this week, nOps ShareSave now includes the ShareSave Realized dashboard for scheduler recommendations. With this addition, users can now see their total savings, net savings, and annualized net savings realized from their scheduled recommendation through the ShareSave program.

nOps ShareSave allows you to schedule resources to shutdown automatically according to recommended schedules. Once the schedules are implemented the nOps ShareSave looks at the absence of usage for the scheduled resources at the specified times in the CUR file. This absence of usage is savings that have been realized which the user can see in the ShareSave realized page for scheduled resources.

To learn more about ShareSave, visit our ShareSave Page , read our Solutions Brief or see the documentation.

Scheduler got more Insights!

This week, nOps introduced a column of count of schedules in nOps Scheduler > Create New Schedule > Attach Resources modal, and Recommendation Visualization Graph feature in the recommendations table of nOps ShareSave.

Column for schedule count: With the number of schedules feature, nOps customers —while creating a schedule— when they click on Attach Resources, will be able to see the number of schedules a resource belongs to in the Schedule column of the Attach Resource modal. This column will allow the customer to properly formulate a plan for the resources that are configured to shutdown via several schedules.

Recommendation Visualization: With this new recommendation visualization graph feature in the recommendations table of nOps ShareSave, nOps customers can see resource usage in graphs based on CPU usage. This feature offers the ability to see the details of actual resource usage and nOps recommendation in the same graph, a visual representation of the recommended schedule and how it relates to the times when the resource is in use. Users can select days (limited to the days that are present in the recommendation) from a drop-down list and filter the day for which they want to see the actual usage and recommendation. If there are multiple recommendations for one resource then this feature will show all recommended time periods in the graph for the selected day. The graphs, for each recommended day of the week, represent an hourly breakdown of usage on X-axis and CPU usage (from 0 to 100) on the y-axis.

To learn more about Scheduler, visit our ShareSave Scheduler Page or see the documentation.

This week at nOps we dedicated our time to improve the overall User experience of nOps and tweaked existing features as better UX along with some improvements always makes a huge difference and that's also one of the nOps fundamentals to keep on making such tweaks so that engineers get better hands-on experience without any performance issues.

Better and Improved

CIS Dashboard: The CIS Dashboard now offers clearer visibility of rule violations and you can also click the arrow icon under the Action column to see more details even if there are no violations. This allows you more visibility in the CIS Dashboard and enables you to make better decisions for the security of your infrastructure.

To see the updated version, visit CIS Dashboard.

CloudFormation Stack with IAM Policy: nOps CloudFormation Stack now supports dynamic CloudFormation for each customer for IAM role. The CloudFormation now also has a separate section for the IAM role deny list.

This will allow you more control over the IAM permissions, adding specific permission to the allow and deny list. You can add such permission in the deny list that you deem unnecessary or sensitive. You can also tweak the permissions in the allow section depending on your use case and required services from nOps.

To see the updated version, visit CloudFormation Stack with IAM Policy.

Scheduler: You will now only see resources from the selected cloud account when you search for resources with the help of the search bar while attaching resources to be scheduled using the Scheduler.  You can now search any resource by entering instance id/name with the help of our new and improved search feature.

To learn more about Schedulers, visit Scheduler page

Well-Architected Now Even Faster

Well-Architected partner portal page is now better and faster with an even more initiative UI. This new version of the Well-Architected page still retains the same functionality as the previous version but comes with a newer look, free of bugs, and offers a faster UI. This is mostly the performance tuning of this page and now partners will be saving time to scroll through the list of all the partner clients and get the insights and details way faster than before.

To see the updated version, visit Well-Architect Partner Page.