Newvem Launches Analytics Tools for Amazon S3

As part of its suite of cloud
analytics services and products, Newvem
Insight
Ltd.,
providing cloud analytics to Amazon Web Services customers, launched
a new offering focused on Amazon’s Simple Storage Services.

The analytics web application now
enables CIOs, IT managers, developers, operators and other cloud
users to make Amazon S3 management and storage decisions, which in
turn helps companies improve cloud efficiency and business
performance.

Analytics offers value
for Amazon S3 users by
enabling visibility into their current footprint
from different angles:

• Consolidated view:
  A one-glance, view into all of the user’s Amazon S3 buckets –
  including total cost, size and volume of stored objects.

• Bucket structure:
  Bucket information providing visibility on the types of objects and
  their impact on bucket composition.

• Object profile:
  An object-level analysis of a bucket’s composition that provides a
  profile of bucket-stored objects, including distribution by type,
  age, and utilization impact.

By enhancing analytics and
visibility into Amazon S3,
the company helps users define and
implement their
AWS storage policies and make decisions, such as:

• Which Amazon S3 features are
  relevant for their usage, like Reduced Redundancy Storage,
  Versioning, and Object Expiration

• How to organize Amazon S3 buckets
  and objects to make Amazon S3 features usage easier and more
  effective

• The most adequate AmazonS3
  configuration to support their storage policy

• How to validate compliance of
  policies and configurations

• When it makes sense to archive
  Amazon S3 objects with Amazon Glacier

"Our
vision is to not only give AWS users amplified visibility into their
cloud usage but also to help them make the right storage decision
with the optimal impact on cost and availability,"
says Zev Laderman, co-founder and CEO of Newvem. "With
Newvem’s unique AWS insight, users can make educated decisions when
defining their storage policies and weigh the whole range of Amazon
S3 features as well as other AWS services like Amazon Glacier. This
results in more effective and efficient use of the cloud and their
overall investment."

Amazon S3 provides a web services
interface that can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data,
at any time. It gives developer access to the same infrastructure
that Amazon uses to run its own global network of web sites. The
service aims to maximize benefits of scale and to pass those benefits
on to developers.

"A
sizeable portion of our AWS usage is on Amazon S3 storage. Since
Amazon S3 is so quick and easy to adopt, staying on top of
consumption can be a real challenge amid a growing pool of data,"
says Chemi Katz, VP of technical operations at DoubleVerify.
"Newvem’s
deeper visibility and cost-saving recommendations will be very
helpful for us to use Amazon S3 efficiently. With Newvem, we can
simplify Amazon S3 management and ensure that we’re being smart about
our usage and controlling costs."

The company found out that when
considering Amazon S3 cost risk, many of its customers first looked
at the volume of files stored on their buckets.

"In
reality, it’s not just about volume, but how the file type affects
your overall storage,"
added Ilan Naslavsky, CTO and co-founder of Newvem. "In
other words, five HD video files stored in Amazon S3 could cost much
more than thousands of smaller text files. We reveal this and offer
AWS alternatives for our customers to make the right storage
decision."

The
launch of Amazon S3 analytics comes on the heels of the company’s
August release of its Reserved Instances Decision
Tool, which helps AWS
customers improve their AWS procurement decision on which On-Demand
Instances should be moved to Reserved Instances. It also tracks how
efficiently Reserved Instances are used and recommends when an
underutilized Reserved Instance should be sold on AWS’s new Reserved
Instance marketplace.