Driving GorillaStack configuration through Terraform We have spent some time building a Terraform provider for GorillaStack. We’ll explore the “what” and “why” in some FAQs below, and will follow up with some technical blog posts around the “how” a little later. What is a Terraform Provider? A Terraform Provider is an implementation of mappings between Terraform templates and API calls … Read More
Ten Surefire Ways To Slash Your AWS EC2 Costs
Using AWS EC2 is almost always cheaper than managing on-premises hardware. But those costs can still stack up, and every dollar counts. Here are ten surefire ways to slash your AWS EC2 bill. 1. Rightsize your EC2s The cost of running an EC2 instance for an hour can range from nothing to more than US$25, depending on which type (e.g. t2.small, … Read More
Control AWS from Slack Using GorillaStack
We love ChatOps here at GorillaStack. Our CloudTrail alerts Slack bot and rich notifications from our AWS Rules Engine are great for receiving alerts and monitoring your cloud environment, but we’re not content with stopping there. We have grand plans for further ChatOps developments to give users the power to take action, and control resources — not just monitor them … Read More
GorillaStack Achieves Amazon Web Services Cloud Management Tools Competency Status
Atlanta – September 14, 2018 – GorillaStack, the Rules Engine for Cost Optimisation and Automation, announced today that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Management Tools Competency status. This designation recognizes that GorillaStack assists AWS customers in provisioning and managing AWS workloads through specialized solutions for administering & provisioning, managing, and optimizing AWS resources. Achieving the AWS Cloud … Read More
GorillaStack and Polar 7 Hands On Optimisation Day With AWS
In August of 2018, GorillaStack collaborated with Polar 7 and Amazon for a “Hands On Day” focused on how to AWS Environment Optimisation. Optimise Your AWS Environment Concentrating on the Well Architected Framework, the days were a good opportunity for organisations to get an overview on optimising environments to be: Highly Secure Efficient Reliable Operationally Excellent Cost Optimised Open Source … Read More
EC2 Scheduler
Why use an EC2 scheduler? If you’re part of an organisation that’s looking to make improvements in cost optimisation and governance by using automation then an EC2 scheduler is a natural choice. An EC2 scheduler allows you to maximise utilisation efficiencies without the overhead of writing and maintain custom scripts or doing it manually. You can turn off and on … Read More
The Top DevOps Tools For Cost Optimisation
A few weeks ago Peter Shi, the main man when it comes to Cost Optimisation for AWS in APAC, ran an awesome workshop where participants from some of the largest organisations in Australia got to take part in discussing and recommending their most treasured DevOps tools when it comes to cost optimisation. For our synopsis, we split the tools and … Read More
AWS Instance Scheduler
A lot of organisations come to us for help after they have spent weeks wrestling with AWS Instance scheduler. Other users who have never tried to grapple with the 40 page instructional document ask us why they shouldn’t use it instead of GorillaStack. Instance Scheduler Overview The AWS Instance Scheduler is a solution written by the AWS Solutions team, based … Read More
AWS EBS Snapshots Cost Allocation And Automation
We wanted to take a quick time out to discuss the new cost allocation functionality for AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS) snapshots and how GorillaStack complements the service in an intelligent fashion. What Is Amazon Elastic Block Store? You’re probably already aware, but here’s a pithy summation for you: Amazon EBS is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) block storage system … Read More
GorillaStack AWS CloudTrail Listener For Slack Goes Public
The GorillaStack team are excited to announce the release of our highly requested AWS CloudTrail Slackbot. What started out as an internal project, designed to make tracking CloudTrail events more manageable (you can read more about our initial AWS Slack integration here), is now officially available for public consumption! You don’t even need to have a GorillaStack account to start … Read More