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Platform9 Systems demonstrates Elastic Machine Pool (EMP) Cost Analyzer and their approach to managing Amazon EKS clusters. Peter Fray, Field CTO, and Madhura Maskasky, VP of Product, showcase how their tool can calculate potential savings for AWS EKS clusters by analyzing current costs and projecting savings and explain how EMP serves as an alternative to AWS Fargate by managing worker nodes and potentially reducing costs.
The demo includes the following:
1. An overview of the existing AWS environment with EC2 worker nodes.
2. A live demo of the EMP Cost Analyzer, projecting significant cost savings by running multiple EC2 instances on a single bare metal node.
3. A discussion on how EMP compares to AWS serverless offerings like Lambda and Fargate, emphasizing cost savings and management benefits.
4. An explanation of how to install the cost analyzer using a Helm chart and how it integrates with AWS.
5. A demonstration of how to create and manage EVM pools, configure overcommitment, and scale bare metal nodes according to workload demand.
6. An outline of the process for migrating from a traditional EKS cluster to one managed by EMP.
7. A discussion on the future expansion of EMP beyond AWS EKS to other Kubernetes offerings and possibly EC2.
8. A Q&A session addressing technical details, automation capabilities, and go-to-market strategies, including the AWS marketplace presence.
The demo illustrates the potential for significant cost savings and simplified cluster management for AWS EKS users through the use of Platform9’s EMP.
Personnel: Madhura Maskasky, Peter Fray
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