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Datadog - AWS Prescriptive Guidance

Datadog

Last update: May 15, 2023

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AWS Partner product descriptions and reported qualifications, including compliance, are provided by the AWS Partner and are not verified by AWS. For more information about these products, contact the AWS Partner. You are encouraged to conduct your own additional due diligence before choosing to use any of the products listed.

Product overview

Category Product capabilities
Product website

Datadog
Product certifications

AWS Competency Program competencies and other certifications

AWS Migration and Modernization – Application Monitoring and Orchestration
AWS Marketplace

Link to subscribe or download

Datadog on AWS Marketplace
Tool deployment model

Product can be SaaS-based or customer-deployed

  • SaaS on AWS (vendor VPC)

  • SaaS or servers in other cloud provider environment

Compliance

  • CCPA Addendum

  • Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) LI-SaaS ATO

  • FedRAMP Moderate Impact for products in US1-FED site

  • General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

  • Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Compliant Log Management and Security Monitoring

  • International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 27001

  • System and Organization Controls 2 (SOC 2) Type I and Type II

Service model

  • Full self-service – Deployment, management, and maintenance can be done by the customer or end-user

  • Self-service with vendor support – Deployment, management, and maintenance can be done by customer or end-user with the option of vendor support

  • Managed service (including partner-enabled service) – Deployment, management, and maintenance require professional services

Pricing model

Subscription

Business case analysis capabilities

Category Product capabilities
Data import

The ability to upload IT asset data from discovery tools (such as CMDB extract, VCenter extract, SolarWinds, or Hyper-V) or from software distribution tools (such as Microsoft SCCM)

Programmatically through the API
Right-sizing, Amazon EC2 instance type

The ability to select the Amazon EC2 instance type with the lowest cost based on the source server profile1 and utilization data2, application characteristics3, and Amazon EC2 characteristics4

  • vCPU and CPU core count mapping and RAM mapping between the source server or VM and target EC2 instance

  • CPU and RAM utilization data over time, including maximum (peak), average (or median), standard deviation, and percentile statistics

  • CPU speed (GHz) per generation

  • Application or user process CPU utilization

  • Synthetic workload test against processor benchmarking

  • Intel x86 Hyper-Threading Technology for symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) applications

Right-sizing, Amazon EC2 manufacturer

  • Intel-based EC2 instances

  • AMD-based EC2 instances

  • Arm-based EC2 instances

Exclusion of resource types

The ability to exclude Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance types, such as burstable T3, from TCO calculation

Yes
VMware Cloud on AWS analysis

The ability to analyze the cost of VMware Cloud on AWS by modeling VMware Cloud workload configurations, such as using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for storage

No
Right-sizing, tenancy

The ability to make optimized recommendations across Amazon EC2 tenancies with Dedicated Hosts or Dedicated Instances

  • Dedicated Hosts

  • Dedicated Instances

Right-sizing, attached storage

The ability to use source storage profile data, utilization data, application characteristics, and AWS storage characteristics in order to right-size attached storage, such as Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), with proper types, such as SSD or HDD

Yes
Choice of resource capacity allocation

The ability to select resource capacity allocation schemes (such as low or high resource utilization reservation) or fine-tune the utilization threshold (such as selecting a statistically lowered option 90th or 95th percentile) to reflect your conservative or optimistic resource allocation plan

Yes
License analysis

The ability to provide default license mapping and options in AWS with cost comparisons of bringing existing licenses versus buying licenses from AWS

Not available
TCO coverage, on premises

Cost estimates over 1 year and 3 years, respectively

Not available
TCO coverage, AWS

Cost estimates over 1 year and 3 years, respectively

Not available
TCO coverage, migration

Cost estimates

Not available
TCO data sovereignty support

The ability to store TCO analysis data on premises or at a designated location based on the data protection policies or government data sovereignty regulations

Yes

1 Resource profile – CPU family (x86, RISC/PowerPC, ...), number of CPU cores, memory size, number of disks, storage size, IOPS, network interfaces, bandwidth

2 Resource utilizations – Time-series utilization data with peak, average or median, standard deviation, IOPS, throughput, percentile with sampling interval of 5 minutes and minimum sampling duration of 1 month

3 Application characteristics – CPU-intense, CPU-bursty, memory-intense, storage I/O-bound, or network-bound

4 Amazon EC2 characteristics

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