1. EPAM Cloud OrchestrationV
October 29, 2016

2. EPAM Orchestration v.2.1.81 Update Overview
Massive Migration to OpenStack
Platform Services Update
Cloud UI Updates
EPAM-IN1 Free Trial
New region: EPAM-US2
EPAM-MSQ3 Migrates to Direct OpenStack
Advanced facilities
Backup as a Service: FTP to S3
Docker upgraded to v.1.9
New Dynamic Discovering Framework
Management Page Customization
Maestro CLI Improvements
Costs Optimization in AWS
Knowledge Sharing
2 Cloud trainings delivered
3 documents updated
Site updated
Optimization Statistics for AWS Region
2 New Commands
Existing commands updates
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3. Cloud Breakthrough: Windows Server 2016
Best Features
Cloud-Ready OS.
Native support for Docker
Windows Server Containers and Hyper-V
Enhanced Linux Support
Nano Server Deployment: Lightweight and Cloud-oriented
Advanced Security
Image Details:
Image: W2016Std
System disk: 100GB
Monthly LARGE Price: $92.04 in EPAM-BY1, with 100% load 24/7
Read Announcement in Microsoft Blog:

4. New Region: EPAM-US2 The main advantages of the new region are:
Very low price (billing coefficient is 0.6, which is the lowest around all the private regions)
Shapes up to 5XL (8 CPU, 30 RAM)
Large data center capacity
Low ping while accessing the virtual infrastructure
OpenStack – based
EPAM-US2 is a wonderful alternative for those who need to continue hosting their resources in USA and those who are just going to create their infrastructure there. Low ping and low prices make the region a good choice, whenever you are.

5. FTP to AWS S3 Service
Establishing FTP access to AWS S3 storage is the first step in the new data management service implementation.
FTP to S3 features:
Access AWS S3 storage without AWS Credentials
For each user, access is granted individually (by EPAM credentials)
Use any convenient FTP Client
Allows to select which project buckets are available via FTP
Allows to read, write, and delete data in buckets
Buckets management is performed by AWS tools
Activate:
or2ms –p project –r aws_region –k key_name –-activate –s backup

6. Management Page Customization
The Management page provides the detailed information on the resources hosted on your project. With EPAM Orchestration v , it is possible to specify, which info you want to view, and to arrange this info in a convenient way.
Select Organize->Configure Columns
Uncheck the columns you don’t want to see
Click a column you want to move, and then select the column to swap with

7. Cost Optimization in AWS
You can find the Optimization information on your AWS resources on the Monitoring page. It allow you to detect the time your project VMs spend in running state, and, if necessary, optimize their usage (for example, apply schedules)
Normal range: 30%-70%. The standard working day is eight hours, and in some cases, a VM utilization is prolonged for project needs.
Low utilization: <30%. The stopped VMs are still billed, and in case a VM is mostly in the stopped state, the bigger part of the VMs price is its down time price.
Very high utilization: >70%. High utilization can be a signal to check whether the instances are really required 24/7, and if they are not, stop them regularly.

8. Knowledge Sharing
In September, EPAM cloud Consulting team delivered another 2 training sessions, and we are glad to share the following results:
41 people attended the second course of Effective Cloud Computing training, 22 of them passed the training successfully and got the respective badge on the Heroes portal.
126 people attended the training for managers.
119 people passed AWS Certification.

9. Documentation Updates
Maestro CLI User Guide
EPAM Cloud Services Guide
Account Management Guide
Service-related commands updated
New service added
New region is added
Glossary
FAQ
EO v Update Documents
Main concepts included
Gives references to related sources
Reviewed
New questions added
What’s New
Release Notes
Video Overview
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10. Thank You For Attention!
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EPAM Cloud Consulting team