CIO Bulletin

Zesty – Making the cloud more affordable and accessible by giving customers the accessibility to automatically scale cloud resources

Some organizations are increasingly choosing to reduce their up-front investments in IT infrastructure by deploying their applications into cloud environments. Those environments offer private, public, or hybrid cloud combinations, giving many options on the cloud. Thus, it is important to have a cloud management strategy that allows organizations to make decisions about how and when to use cloud-based services, ensuring their use of the cloud is cost-effective. Cloud providers can offer you services to rent a server where you can deploy your services just as they can offer services that can deploy for you to use directly.

Companies are more likely to improve cloud computing performance, reliability, cost containment, and environmental sustainability. The management of applications involves repetitive tasks. You can provision servers and push code automatically via APIs instead of managing these tasks manually. Cloud management can play an important role in managing the security status and vulnerability of your IT assets. For example, Cloud offers a set of Billing APIs for Cloud Management Partners (CMP) to manage their billing accounts, orders, resource packages, and bills of that particular Cloud services. Cloud management solutions are built to reduce complexity and provide IT teams with an easy-to-use platform with a rich UI to simplify the overall management of the hybrid IT estate. It ensures that decision-making is accelerated as information is available in real-time.

Zesty is one such company that helps organizations worldwide to be more adaptable to changing business needs by making their cloud infrastructure more dynamic. With offerings for compute, block storage, and Kubernetes, Zesty automatically scales resources to meet application demands in real-time. This helps cloud engineering teams to slash cloud costs, maintain perfect app performance, minimize the hassle of managing infra, and fully realize the true flexibility of the cloud. Zesty provides a cloud optimization solution that intelligently scales cloud resources to application demands, with the benefit of reducing manual engineering work, improving application efficacy, and dramatically reducing costs.

Improve customer confidence and CLV (customer lifetime value) in your ability to reduce cloud costs, directly supporting their business growth. Furthermore, the reduced Capex for delivering cloud services, powerfully drives your profit margins. For many companies, cloud costs are the heftiest line item on the corporate budget. Yet getting engineers to take action on cost optimization is no easy feat. With good justification, they are focused on building apps that are performant and available. But the casualty is the budget. Zesty’s FinOps solutions are focused on reducing the cost of developing and running your applications while minimizing the workload of your engineering teams. This enables your businesses to only pay for what you need, for as long as you need it.

Commitment Manager

Zesty dynamically buys and sells AWS Reserved Instances (RI) according to real-time application needs so you never need to choose between paying for expensive On-Demand Instances or over-provisioning and paying for discount commitments that you don’t use. Offering the flexibility of On-demand with the discounted pricing structure of RIs, you can realize top savings without the commitment. It offers a seamless and non-intrusive process that doesn’t require any agent integration on the EC2 instance, but set permissions to access AWS Cost Explorer. Relieve Cloud Engineers from monitoring, reviewing, and adjusting Amazon Web Services discount commitments by having your Reserved Instances automatically adjusted in line with your application needs. Commitment Manager uses real-time data to enable rapid Reserved Instance adjustments which scale alongside changing demand, providing greater coverage with zero effort.

Commitment Manager collects usage performance metrics from real time data sources; this enables rapid adjustments of RI commitments to changing demand. Dynamically buy and sell RIs to match real-time application needs & have your workload covered by AWS’s most discounted commitments. Automatically adjust commitments & relieve DevOps from manually reviewing and changing discount programs. The instantaneous and responsive scalability means organizations can dynamically respond to changing needs. Avoid the financial risk of one-year or three-year commitments and further offset risk with their buy-back guarantee for any over-provisioned RIs. Responsive to your application’s needs, when usage scales up, it automatically buys RIs, and when usage scales down, RI’s are sold off.

Many companies miss out on AWS cost savings available through discount commitments due to vendor lock-in and the financial and operational risk of being unable to adjust cloud infrastructure for up to one or three years as required with discount offerings like Reserved Instances. Commitment Manager eliminates vendor lock-in by matching RIs to EC2 usage, without any long-term commitment. The instantaneous and responsive scalability offered by Commitment Manager enables organizations to migrate their infrastructure in and out of AWS without being restrained by vendor lock-in. As infrastructure is moved in they can immediately benefit from Reserved Instance discounts and as infrastructure is moved out, users are not restrained by long-term commitments.

Zesty Disk

Zesty Disk automatically adjusts your storage capacity to match real-time application needs, and achieves the most optimal utilization possible. By transforming large file system volumes into a virtual disk with a series of multiple volumes, the file system can be shrunk and extended automatically. Get an IOPS and throughput performance boost by leveraging multiple smaller-sized storage volumes that each has their own burst capacity. Zesty Disk is never exposed to data in storage, only meta-data and usage metrics are collected. When action is taken a command is sent to a dedicated IAM role on the instance. Zesty Disk automatically scales volumes to app demand by adding or removing file system storage according to real-time needs. As a result, you only pay for the capacity you need and can save up to 70% on AWS EBS or other block storage services.

Shrink and expand storage in run time to boost performance and reduce cost by up to 70%. Shrink and expand block volumes in line with dynamic and fluctuating application needs, without any human input. The storage optimizer improves IOPS and throughput performance by as much as 300%, providing direct value to the user experience. Save up to 70% on block storage costs by eliminating the need to provision excess capacity & having the ability to shrink volumes. No more “out of disk” failures when data ingestion exceeds the available volume capacity. Workloads like databases, ETLs, or ML pipelines that involve high data ingestion requirements can overwhelm storage capacity. But expanding it is almost impossible when working with single servers. With Zesty Disk, you can auto-extend AWS EBS volumes or block storage volumes to accommodate spikes in demand, significantly reducing manual labor.

Zesty Disk automatically shrinks and extends EBS volumes or block storage volumes according to changing app demand. This process involves replacing a large file system volume with multiple small volumes that each have their own IOPS and throughput allocation. Power is aggregated from all of them to provide a performance improvement of up to 300%. In order to accommodate peaks demand, customers often provision the highest amount of storage required by their app. Once demand goes back to its normal state, they are unable to scale down, costing them significantly over time. Zesty Disk automatically scales storage volumes up and down according to real-time business demand, so customers only pay for what they need, in some cases saving them up to 70% off storage.

The visionary leader at the helm of Zesty

Maxim Melamedov is a Co-founder and the Chief Executive Officer of Zesty. With over 13 years of experience in the tech industry, including a prior career in homeland security, Mr. Melamedov thrives on solving complex problems and disrupting previously established norms. He finds endless inspiration at the intersection of data, innovation, and efficiency. Maxim earned his B.A in business management from the University of Derby, and is a veteran of the Israeli Air Force.