Optimizing your multi-cloud environment
Systems need to be available, but if their performance is bad, they're still of no use at all. The next step is to optimize our cloud environments in terms of performance. Now, performance is probably one of the trickiest terms in IT. What is good performance? Or acceptable performance? The obvious answer is that it depends on the type of systems and the SLA that the business has set. Nonetheless, with all the modern technology surrounding us every day, we expect every system to respond fast whenever it's called. Again, it's all about the business case. What does a business perceive as acceptable, what are the costs of improving performance, and is the business willing to invest in these performance enhancements?
Cloud providers offer tools we can use to optimize environments that are hosted on their platforms. In this section, we will briefly look at these different tools and how we can use them.
