The cloud ecosystem and how start-ups can effectively manage it

The cloud is becoming the vehicle for next-generation digital business and has emerged as the go-to platform for start-ups looking to thrive in today's highly dynamic and competitive market. Traditional on-premises IT solutions require higher investments in hardware, software licenses, maintenance, and training costs, which makes them ill-suited for start-ups.

On the other hand, cloud solutions offer start-ups many benefits like quicker infrastructure provisioning and pay-as-you-go pricing models, with which start-ups can scale their infrastructure up and down easily depending on the demographic of their user base.

Adopting the multi-cloud approach

A multi-cloud strategy allows start-ups to pick the best services from each cloud provider and helps mitigate availability risks by distributing apps across different cloud platforms. A multi-cloud approach also avoids vendor lock-in, where a customer depends on a single cloud provider for products and services, and cannot switch without substantial costs. Additionally, most cloud providers offer a free version to get started, and startups can try these from different providers to figure out what works best for them.

In today’s dynamic, digitized environment, slow is the new down, and startups need to be able to maintain a high availability and fast response times for their services and websites no matter where the end-user is. It’s critical to analyze how end-users interact with services and websites in real-time to address challenges proactively and detect bottlenecks quickly, so corrective action can be taken before end-users are affected.

This can be achieved by gaining visibility into key infrastructure KPIs and monitoring every tier of an organization’s application stack, however, using multiple tools to monitor availability and response times can be a challenge. A single tool that provides a holistic view into each layer of the IT infrastructure, with full-stack monitoring and instant alerts for proactively resolving issues before end-users are impacted, is the need of the hour.

The all-in-one, AI-powered monitoring tool

Site24x7 gives in-depth insights into the performance of various cloud computing resources, ensuring app performance and effective utilization of cloud resources by offering a central approach to monitor the multi-cloud infrastructure.

• Stay on top of the resource utilization and operational health of over 100 Azure services.
• Keep an eye on the usage and performance of infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) in your Amazon Web Services environment.
• Monitor your entire Google Cloud infrastructure in near real-time.
• Gain visibility across all your apps, systems, and services using Plugins, and analyze metrics that affect your business.
• Get AI-powered monitoring capabilities and IT automation tools to gain insights into all the layers of an organization’s IT infrastructure from a single console, and proactively react to an incident by automating remediation responses to threshold breaches.

Adopting the cloud is the way forward for startups looking to cut costs and achieve scalability, but to ensure continued operation and flawless performance, organizations need a holistic monitoring solution that can monitor and track the performance of the various elements on the cloud.

Site24x7 is a cloud solution that offers full-stack monitoring. It lets startups manage their digital experience and cloud resources conveniently by offering comprehensive monitoring for digital assets like websites, rest APIs, mobile apps, user transactions, and more, providing complete infrastructure monitoring for on-premises, cloud, virtual infrastructures, and containers. Sign up for free!