DAY2™ Well-Managed Applications

Well-Managed Applications are consistently available, secure, compliant, extensible, operationally efficient and cost-effective. A Well-Managed Applications starts with on-demand availability of compliant environments and extends to autonomous Day 2 operations. monitoring and enforcement of desired state of security, cost and availability. A Well-Managed Application’s resources are monitored, changes are tracked, tasks are automated, policies are enforced and cost are optimized against intent and expectation. Well-Managed Applications maximize productivity and minimize cost & risk while the application generates business outcomes.

You should use DAY2™ Well-Managed Applications (WMA) because you enable your application teams to innovate faster while also enforcing granular governance, compliance and security, through autonomous operations. DAY2™ WMA enables you to deploy and operate compliant, secure and cost-effective application environments efficiently in just a few clicks. DAY2™ WMA includes a catalog of well-architected provisioning templates, a rick task library to automate Day 2 operations, intuitive operations dashboards, and extensive reports for compliance reporting. DAY2™ eliminates the task burden, bridges the cloud skills gap and helps you run well-managed applications in a matter of minutes.

You can easily get started by creating a MontyCloud account at https://app.montycloud.com/signup, then select any WMA Blueprint from the DAY2™ Blueprints library.  You will be asked to onboard your AWS account upon selecting a blueprint. You can easily onboard your account with the account credentials and get started with the deployment.

Yes, you can only create a MontyCloud account with your work email address and access your MontyCloud account with your work email address.

Once your free trial has expired you can purchase a monthly or annual SaaS subscription for as many DAY2™ Well-Managed Applications you need. DAY2™ Well-Managed Infrastructure is a pre-requisite for DAY2™ Well-Managed Applications and includes the Provisioning Portal with unlimited use of Account, Network and IaaS Blueprints. For pricing, please contact sales for a quote.

Well-Architected Framework is an AWS Framework of recommendations that help customers and partners optimize their AWS footprint for security, costs, reliability, performance and operational excellence. DAY2™ Blueprints are built based on the AWS Well-Architected framework. You can find more information on the AWS Well-Architected Framework at https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/well-architected.

Yes. DAY2™ Well-Managed Applications (WMA) complement Cloud-Native provisioning tools such as Amazon CloudFormation.

Yes, if you currently use AWS CloudFormation(CFN) you can onboard your existing CFN templates to DAY2™. DAY2™ Well-Managed Applications includes a import wizard through which you can onboard your existing CFN Templates, automate routine tasks and customize DAY2™ Application Dashboard to your needs. As an added-value, MontyCloud DevOps engineers can help validate your provisioning template so ensure it meets Well-Architected principles.

Yes, you can manage your existing applications on AWS with DAY2™ WMA. All you have to do is point the application to DAY2™ WMA’s application wizard. In just a few clicks, you application is manageable with DAY2™ WMI. You can now create your custom operations dashboards, import any custom tasks/scripts you have for the application, automate operations, and generate compliance and security reports.

Operations and Administrators create a rule within a given DAY2 Application by selecting a cloud event or key system metric and defining the condition for which the rule will be triggered. One or more DAY2 Tasks must then be selected to control how the DAY2 platform should react to the condition being met. Tasks are then executed under the context of the user who created the rule and is visible within the Operations section of the DAY2 platform. The execution history for those tasks can later be accessed and reviewed both from within the Application itself and from Operations.

Multiple actions can be added to a single rule, with each action executed in parallel. But multiple conditions and conditional flows are not currently supported.

System metrics from EC2 and RDS Instances, EC2 Auto Scaling Groups and Load Balancers, NAT and Transit Gateways, and S3 buckets can be used as conditions to trigger DAY2™ CloudOps Automation Rules.
Key EC2 events such as Instance status changes (Instance Started/Stopped/Restarted/Terminated) and EBS Snapshot notifications (Snapshot created, deleted, copied, shared) can be used to trigger actions. An individual rule can be configured to check for events and data from an individual resource, or multiple resources can be selected. Metrics sourced from 3rd party monitoring tools, or applications running inside an EC2 instance are not currently supported.