Scalr is a cloud management platform that automates scaling, security, availability, and cost management for infrastructure on cloud platforms like Amazon Web Services. It is trusted by companies like Samsung and helps users avoid time-consuming manual tasks while ensuring their cloud resources are optimized for performance, redundancy, and cost-efficiency. Press quotes praise Scalr for making AWS more powerful and providing fully redundant, self-scaling hosting capabilities.
9. Press
“Scalr makes Amazon EC2 significantly
more interesting”
“With Scalr you have a fully redundant
and self-scaling hosting”
10. “Before, we trudged through time-consuming,
repetitive tasks that were often prone to errors.
That all changed when we met
Scalr.
-Hyok Choi, Systems Architect, Samsung
Editor's Notes
Talk about the promise: As a customer, why would you want to use Scalr?What is Scalr? Open source
Single pane of glassTechnology-Very fast-Entirely java script drivenWe use sequoia capital funded senchaEasy to contribute toIntegration btw monitoring deployment toolsTwo diff types of monitoringPerformanceAvailability
The interface allows you to build, deploy and manage infrastructureThe when and the what model? Some basic tools have only two events, startup and shut down whereas we have much more customizable orchestration engine that extends the when to, for eg; ip address changed, volume mounted, application change (life cycle events)What – can be any script that s executable in the server-bash, ruby, perl, python, brainfuck or pupper modules or chef recipes
Federated Hybrid cloud scaling – hadoop batch process academic clientsPuppet Cloud bursting – Hadoop batch process clientsAutomatic scaling with orchestration – Clients with explosive growthExamples
Security groupsIp tables - very secret project in media company - ElaborateAutomatic orchestrationPeople security-Permissions teams and environment
Automatic fail over orchestration -- Web properties, give examples (mongo fail over)A few failover orchestration techniques cover large majority of fail over scenariosBackup management tool, disaster recovery assistance
Cloudyn - also touch upon private cloud optimization – internal chargebacksExample of scalrResizingResource cleanupFinancial optimizationReserved instances purchase for amazon
The registerWhy combinator
Feature sponsorshipRelationship
Download stable package from githubContact technicalsales@scalr.com – help them determine ifscalr is a good fit for the companyStart trial