<p>Related:Press Release, News AppFirst, a leader in operational intelligence solutions, announcedtoday the integration of Amazon CloudWatch to its powerful andcomprehensive big data platform. With AppFirst integration, Amazon WebService (AWS) users now have a single source of truth into the realresource utilization configurations of their Amazon Web Services (AWS)instances, allowing them to understand their cloud-application footprintand then plan for capacity, set business-specific SLAs and get a firmunderstanding of service based costs. Amazon's CloudWatch providesmonitoring for both AWS cloud resources and the applications customersrun on AWS.</p><p>AppFirst allows an organization to fully understand the resourcesrequired by an application, as well as the manner in which it interactswith other applications, users and systems. The integration withCloudWatch enables AWS users to manage the efficiency of their AWSinstances while also seeing a full breakdown of costs and how theyimpact operations and business across AWS deployments.</p><p>"Only AppFirst and its 'Miss Nothing' data collection can normalize andcorrelate all the metrics across your environment, delivering the mostcomplete data set on operational behavior ever available," said Bob Fox,director, Solutions Architecture for AppFirst. "We are pleased to beable to offer that same unparalleled visibility into AWSinfrastructures, giving operations the continuous insight they need,when they need it most."</p><p>With the ability to capture CloudWatch data using AppFirst, AWSCloudWatch users can:Normalize their entire data set Normalizing and correlatingdata across your application infrastructure enables full understandingof how one metric affects and impacts another.Understand their application infrastructure over time AppFirst stores data for up to one year, enabling users to visualizehistorical trends for all data.Recapture stolen time A visual graph provides at-a-glanceconfirmation when instances need to be moved to another region forbetter performance and resource utilization.Understand application footprints Recording of the actualapplication footprint running over time enables accurate comparing andcontrasting of the same application running on different servers.Re-imagine capacity planning Add or remove resources based onlive application behavior - the direct measure of serviceeffectiveness.</p><p><a href="http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwgeeks/article/AppFirst-Adds-Amazon-CloudWatch-Support-Delivers-Unparalleled-Visibility-Into-Amazon-Web-Services-Infrastructure-20131113">Keep reading...</a></p>