Cloud Capacity Planning: Best Practices

Cloud capacity planning is an essential piece of any effective IT strategy. When you leverage cloud capacity planning effectively, it can improve service performance, increase agility, and reduce costs.  

Cloud capacity planning aims to match demand with available resources. It analyzes what systems are already in place, measuring their performance and predicting demand. Your organization can then provision and allocate cloud resources based on that demand. 

Before you can adjust a system's capacity, you need to understand and characterize its workload. A system uses processors, memory, storage, and networks to fulfill cloud computing requirements. Each resource's utilization rate varies. When the demand increases, one or more of these resources reaches its cap. 

Once you understand your workloads, you can plan your cloud capacity for each as well as overall.

You can derive a number of benefits from cloud capacity planning, including:  

Reduction of Costs

A strategic cloud capacity plan helps IT anticipate and plan for changes that may affect cloud resource management. Your IT team can better control, track, and adjust resource capacity, consumption, and related budgets or quotas when they understand business priorities and plans. 

Application Performance

Poor performance can lead to negative user experiences and increased customer churn. As part of strategic cloud capacity planning, IT can find and fix performance bottlenecks from systems and applications. Additionally, cloud capacity planning helps you find cost-effective ways to achieve optimal performance. 

Agility

Your IT team can effectively plan for unforeseen spikes in demand using historical data and usage patterns as part of effective cloud capacity planning. 

Cloud capacity planning can aid any organization that uses cloud computing to improve performance. Chip makers and small businesses looking to leverage the cloud for their chip projects can benefit immensely from cloud capacity planning.

With Synopsys Cloud’s FlexEDA model, you can free yourself from capacity and license limitations. Since Synopsys Cloud unshackles all capacity constraints, projects can be broken into faster cycles with more time spent on innovating and less on scheduling. At the same time, you need to plan your cloud capacity to ensure your chip projects run smoothly. 

Synopsys is the industry’s largest provider of electronic design automation (EDA) technology used in the design and verification of semiconductor devices, or chips. With Synopsys Cloud, we’re taking EDA to new heights, combining the availability of advanced compute and storage infrastructure with unlimited access to EDA software licenses on-demand so you can focus on what you do best – designing chips, faster. Delivering cloud-native EDA tools and pre-optimized hardware platforms, an extremely flexible business model, and a modern customer experience, Synopsys has reimagined the future of chip design on the cloud, without disrupting proven workflows.

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