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About OptScale#

OptScale is a platform that optimizes cloud costs and performance for any workload, providing effective cloud cost management for all types of organizations.

Hystax OptScale primary capabilities#

  • Pool Transparency

    Pool breakdown and transparency across all business units, users, projects and individual cloud services. The customer sets soft and hard limits.

  • Simple multicloud asset provisioning workflow via dashboard or API

    A single OptScale dashboard is used to manage hybrid clouds along with the virtual machines, volumes and network settings. Custom and mandatory tagging is supported. Custom TTL rules can be created to clear out workloads according to customer's policies.

  • Flexible alerts and notifications

    Custom notifications about all related events, e.g. immediate workload volume increase, pool forecast overdraft or unusual behavior.

  • Swift user creation and business units distribution

    Step-by-step guides for configuring user settings, organization subdivisions, pools and quotas assignments.

  • VM Power Schedules

    The Power Schedule feature for cloud instances enables users to automate the management of virtual machine (VM) states by scheduling their start and stop times.

  • Optimal utilization of Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and Spot Instances

    A visualization of your compute usage covered by RIs and SPs versus your uncovered usage. By analyzing this data, you can identify potential savings by increasing your RI/SP coverage where beneficial.

  • S3 duplicate object finder

    The S3 Duplicate Finder is designed to help optimize your AWS S3 storage usage by identifying and managing duplicate objects across your buckets.

More features are just around the corner and will be introduced shortly!

How it works#

OptScale is dedicated to improve cloud usage experience but does not actively interfere with processes in your environment since it only requires Read-Only rights for the connected cloud account which is used as the main Data Source for all recommendations.

The following data is used:

  1. Billing info - all details related to cloud expenses.
  2. State of resources (for actively discoverable types) in the cloud - necessary for applying Constraints like TTL and Expense limit as well as for OptScale's Recommendation Engine.
  3. Monitoring data from the cloud used for identifying underutilized instances.

Naturally, every cloud platform differs in the way the above data is obtained.

Alibaba#

1. Billing information is acquired via Billing API:

2. Cloud's Monitor service is used as the source of all monitoring data.

3. Resource discovery is performed via Discovery API:

Refer to this guide for more details.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)#

1. Billing information is retrieved from the Data Exports located in a designated S3 bucket in the cloud:
2. Resource discovery is performed via Discovery API:

3. Amazon Cloud Watch is used as the source of monitoring data.

Refer to this guide for more details.

Azure#

1. Billing information is acquired via Billing API:
2. Resource discovery is performed via Discovery API:

3. Cloud's Monitoring service is used as the source of all monitoring data.

Refer to this guide for more details.

GCP#

1. Billing information is retrieved from the BigQuery service.

2. Cloud's Monitoring service is used as the source of all monitoring data.

3. Resource discovery is performed via Discovery API:

Refer to this guide for more details.

Kubernetes#

To enable cost management and FinOps capabilities for your Kubernetes cluster, you need to deploy a software component that collects information about running pods and converts it into cost metrics. Refer to this guide for more details.

This software is open-source, free of malware, and requires read-only access to Kubernetes metadata and performance metrics. Please review the code and find a detailed description on GitHub.

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  • Home. Find your organization’s current spending and projected expenses for the upcoming month. Details about Home page.

  • Recommendations. Get practical information about suggesting services and features available in OptScale. Find a brief description and other pertinent information in the cards to help you assess the situation quickly. How to use recommendation cards.

  • Resources. Observe the expenses for all resources across all connected clouds within the organization for the selected period. Organize and categorize resources based on your specific requirements.

  • Pools. View pools with limits or projected expenses that require your attention. Manage pools using the available features on this page.

  • Shared Environments. This feature enables you to focus more on application logic rather than infrastructure management. Use this page to book cloud environments for specific periods to allow multiple users or applications to access and use the same underlying infrastructure.

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  • FinOps. View a breakdown chart that visualizes your expenses over time, get a visual or analytical representation of costs, and become familiar with the concepts of FinOps and MLOps.

  • MLOps. Keep track of your tasks, machine learning models, and datasets. Define hyperparameters and automatically run your training code on the Hypertuning page. Share specific artifacts with your team members.

  • Policies. Identify and respond to unusual patterns or deviations from normal behavior, control costs and manage resources efficiently, implement robust tagging policies, and manage the resource lifecycle and automated power on/off schedules effectively.

  • Sandbox. Evaluate CPU and memory usage by k8s resources, view applied recommendations, and compare instance pricing across different clouds.

  • System. Assign roles to users for resource management, integrate with various services, and view events.

Organization selector#

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In case there are several organizations registered in OptScale that the user is considered to be a part of, clicking on the Organization field → Organization overview in the top right corner of the page will redirected to a new view containing a matrix of key information on each organization.

Organizations that require attention and optimization are marked in red.

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Documentation, product tour, and profile buttons#

On the right of the Organization selector find the Documentation, Product tour, and Community documentation buttons.

documentation - get detailed documentation about the product.

product_tour - get the product tour.

community_documentation - community documentation gives brief description about each page. Turn the community documentation panel on or off as desired.

profile - log out from the solution.

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