DRHCCOST02-BP01 Monitor and manage Outposts capacity and utilization effectively
Understand available edge capacity and its utilization.
Desired outcome: You are aware of what capacity they have, and you scale as needed.
Benefits of establishing this best practice: You can proactively make decisions to provide the appropriate capacity and minimize unexpected cost.
Level of risk exposed if this best practice is not established: Medium
Implementation guidance
Actively monitor and manage Outposts capacity and utilization. AWS recommends Amazon CloudWatch to track usage and available Outposts CloudWatch metrics for Amazon EC2, Amazon EBS, Amazon S3, and network resources, which helps organizations meet their business objectives and proactively make scaling decisions.
Outposts capacity scales in fixed increments, with cost
increasing accordingly, and scaling actions can extend the
service term. You should plan for future generation Outposts, as
it is a managed service and AWS retrieves Outposts at the end of
the service period. You can
extend
the existing term
Maintaining appropriate spare capacity is crucial, as Outposts has redundant components, and spare compute and storage capacity ensure hardware failures do not affect workloads and minimize sunk costs. AWS tools like AWS Compute Optimizer can be used for rightsizing workloads in Outposts while considering business objectives and utilization goals.
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