One of the major trends in recent years for businesses has been the migration of IT infrastructures from on-premise setups—developed onsite—to the Cloud.
The reasons behind this shift are well-documented: why manage technical complexity, performance, maintenance, updates, business continuity, and security locally when these responsibilities can be entrusted to reliable partners? The cost-effectiveness and the ability to focus on productivity further position the Cloud as an attractive alternative. However, this doesn’t mean that Cloud-based infrastructures should be exempt from continuous optimization.
Enter Cloud Smart Check by CriticalCase, a solution designed to assess security, cost management, and performance specifically for Cloud infrastructures.
What Is Cloud Smart Check by CriticalCase?
Cloud infrastructures offer a secure, high-performing, and user-friendly environment that accelerates the deployment and delivery of platforms and applications. Over time, however, the accumulation of configurations, services, and activities that deviate from best practices can lead to performance degradation and unexpected cost increases. Tight deadlines, which often prioritize timing over quality, can exacerbate these issues.
Cloud Smart Check serves as a comprehensive assessment tool that provides an accurate snapshot of an architecture’s health. It evaluates security, costs, and efficiency levels through an automated process.
Security
Cloud Smart Check begins with a risk assessment to identify vulnerabilities and potential threats. Regularly conducted security audits and tests are essential for ensuring ongoing infrastructure protection. Similarly, access control strategies based on Identity and Access Management (IAM) frameworks ensure resources are available only to authorized personnel.
The assessment also verifies the use of up-to-date security protocols, which are less prone to breaches. It helps establish a monitoring system to detect suspicious activities and defines an incident response plan to mitigate potential damages.
Cost Management
With Cloud Smart Check, businesses can analyze the costs of their Cloud resources, identifying recurring and unnecessary expenses to optimize investments. This process includes resource optimization, ensuring costs are aligned with scalability benefits.
Organizations can better forecast budgets and predict spending, reducing the likelihood of overages through real-time consumption monitoring.
Efficiency and Performance
The success of a Cloud infrastructure heavily depends on its ability to deliver high performance. Monitoring and analyzing the performance of applications and resources is therefore critical.
Cloud Smart Check facilitates an in-depth analysis of inter-application dependencies, aiming to prevent resource conflicts and bottlenecks that could disrupt deployments.
In a Cloud environment, efficiency is closely tied to resource scalability, ensuring availability is proportional to demand. Testing various scaling strategies—both horizontal (scale out) and vertical (scale up)—enables businesses to plan for automatic resizing, balancing consumption and performance effectively.
User experience (UX) also plays a pivotal role in evaluating efficiency. Proactively addressing user feedback allows for quicker identification of issues and more precise improvements to UX.
Whether it’s poorly configured, outdated Cloud services or architectural patterns implemented incorrectly, Cloud Smart Check provides practical solutions for continually optimizing infrastructures.
Conclusion
Security, cost management, and performance are the three pillars of Cloud Smart Check, CriticalCase’s integrated assessment solution for data protection, cost reduction, performance enhancement, and UX optimization.
With a highly qualified 24/7 monitoring service and incident management, CriticalCase offers periodic reviews of critical areas, enabling any project to evolve over time, adapt to technological changes, and tailor Cloud solutions to business needs.
