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Automating RONIN Cost Reports with AWS Cost Explorer

What happens when RONIN users and administrators want to keep a closer watchful eye on where the money is going?

Project Pause and Auto Pause

RONIN does a lot of things to help you prevent overspend, such as Smart Schedule and Budget Management, but we at RONIN have been working hard to help you have complete peace of mind that you won’t experience financial disaster. Introducing Project Auto Pause!

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Using Spot Instances to Reduce Cluster Costs

By requesting unused AWS EC2 instances at a discounted price via the Spot market, you can significantly reduce your cluster costs. This article will explain the pros and cons of Spot instances and provide you with some tips for getting started.

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Data Management in RONIN

Effective data management is crucial in the cloud but with so many storage options available, things can be a little confusing. This blog post summarises all you need to know about the different data storage options in RONIN and when to use them.

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Packaging Clusters in RONIN

In RONIN, a package is a cluster template that is ready to create preconfigured cluster, defined by you! Packages will have an Operating System, a Root Volume (for the operating system) and any user defined volumes, such as datasets, files, or pretty much anything you want. It will also have

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Instructions for Your Detailed Project Billing Report

To make life easy, we’ve created a simple step by step guide to help you generate one of the most useful reports in your AWS console - your own RONIN Project ID (RPID) report.

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Cloud Credit Billing

This solution enables our customers to pre-purchase cloud and manage it via RONIN. This aims to simplify the procurement process of cloud consumption and align with the planning and existing procurement model of your organisation.

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Enabling Cost Allocation Tags for Your New RONIN Account

To make sure all the resources that RONIN orchestrates for you are tracked correctly against the billing of the AWS account, we need the root owner of the account to enable the cost allocation tags in the AWS account.

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Your Project Backups (Snapshots) Summary

Here at RONIN, we aim to simplify everything related to cloud computing. We decided the word backup is a simplified word for snapshot.

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Your Project Storage Summary

We think it's a good idea to have a summary of all your project's storage volumes accessible with quick actions and the ability to create blank storage volumes, and volumes from snapshots on one easy to access page. We also suggest you become familiar with how storage is managed via

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Scheduling Machines in RONIN

Are you human? Us too! One of the real drawbacks to being a human is we have the capacity to forget things, like turning things off when we don't need them. Smart Schedule to the rescue!

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Creating and Using Backups in RONIN

A snapshot is more than just a backup. In fact, it's a backup that replicates itself across three physical locations. And they're remarkably cheap, compared to any other storage, making it a great way to reduce your project's expenditure.

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Your RONIN Dashboard

The dashboard screen is your project's home page. It gives you a quick glance of everything attributed to your project.

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