Designer: Base OLA Design Values

Cloudamize recommendations for AWS include a number of additional designs built with AWS’s capabilities and typical usage in mind, labeled OLA 2 through 10. This article intends to list the basic settings for each of these designs to aid in understanding them.

The full set of settings can be downloaded as a spreadsheet attached to this page.

Designer_ Base OLA Design Values (1).xlsx

OLA 2 - Workload, On-Demand

This design uses AWS's on-demand price plan, License Mobility through SA, and attempts to Optimize Cost and Reduce the Number of Cores whereever possible.

Pricing Plan Settings	Setting	Compute Tuning Settings	Setting	Storage Tuning Settings	Setting	Network Tuning Settings	Setting
Tenancy	Shared	CPU and Instance Family	TRUE	Storage Capacity Scaling	100%	Network Load Factor	10%
Licenses: BYOL	FALSE	Target Peak CPU Threshold	80%	Analyze Type	3rd Standard Deviation	Analyze Type	3rd Standard Deviation
Licenses: License Mobility through SA (For MSSQL)	TRUE	Analyze Type	2nd Standard Deviation	Max RAID Disk Numbers:
License Optimization	Optimize Cost and Reduce Number of Cores	Instance Family Grid	[See Grid]	EBS	Unlimited
Pricing Plan	On-Demand	Instance Type	#####	GP3	10
Region	[Set on Assessment Launch]	Workload Based Tuning: RDS	#####	GP2	10
Discount %	0%	Workload Based Tuning: SAP	TRUE	ST1	0
Observed On-Time?	TRUE			SC1	0
On-time Hours Per Week	FALSE			IO1	Unlimited
				Credit Based Storage:
				Does GP2 Consider Bucketless?	FALSE
				Does SC1 Consider Bucketless?	FALSE
				Does ST1 Consider Bucketless?	FALSE

OLA 3 - Workload, 1 Year RI (AUP)

This design uses the Reserved Full-Upfront 1-Year AWS price plan, License Mobility through SA, and attempts to Optimize Cost and Reduce the Number of Cores where possible.

Pricing Plan Settings	Setting	Compute Tuning Settings	Setting	Storage Tuning Settings	Setting	Network Tuning Setting	Setting
Tenancy	Shared	CPU and Instance Family	TRUE	Storage Capacity Scaling	100%	Network Load Factor	10%
Licenses: BYOL	FALSE	Target Peak CPU Threshold	80%	Analyze Type	3rd Standard Deviation	Analyze Type	3rd Standard Deviation
Licenses: License Mobility through SA (For MSSQL)	TRUE	Analyze Type	2nd Standard Deviation	Max RAID Disk Numbers:
License Optimization	Optimize Cost and Reduce Number of Cores	Instance Family Grid	[See Grid]	EBS	Unlimited
Pricing Plan	Reserved Full Upfront 1-year	Instance Type	FALSE	GP3	10
Region	[Set on Assessment Launch]	Workload Based Tuning: RDS	FALSE	GP2	10
Discount %	0%	Workload Based Tuning: SAP	TRUE	ST1	0
Observed On-Time?	TRUE			SC1	0
On-time Hours Per Week	FALSE			IO1	Unlimited
				Credit Based Storage:
				Does GP2 Consider Bucketless?	FALSE
				Does SC1 Consider Bucketless?	FALSE
				Does ST1 Consider Bucketless?	FALSE

OLA 4 - Workload, 1 Year RI (NUP)

This design uses the Reserved No-Upfront 1-Year AWS price plan, License Mobility through SA, and attempts to Optimize Cost and Reduce the Number of Cores where possible.

Pricing Plan Settings	Setting	Compute Tuning Settings	Setting	Storage Tuning Settings	Setting	Network Tuning Settings	Setting
Tenancy	Shared	CPU and Instance Family	TRUE	Storage Capacity Scaling	100%	Network Load Factor	10%
Licenses: BYOL	FALSE	Target Peak CPU Threshold	80%	Analyze Type	3rd Standard Deviation	Analyze Type	3rd Standard Deviation
Licenses: License Mobility through SA (For MSSQL)	TRUE	Analyze Type	3nd Standard Deviation	Max RAID Disk Numbers:
License Optimization	Optimize Cost and Reduce Number of Cores	Instance Family Grid	[See Grid]	EBS	Unlimited
Pricing Plan	Reserved No Upfront 1-year	Instance Type	FALSE	GP3	10
Region	[Set on Assessment Launch]	Workload Based Tuning: RDS	FALSE	GP2	10
Discount %	0%	Workload Based Tuning: SAP	FALSE	ST1	0
Observed On-Time?	TRUE			SC1	0
On-time Hours Per Week	FALSE			IO1	Unlimited
				Credit Based Storage:
				Does GP2 Consider Bucketless?	FALSE
				Does SC1 Consider Bucketless?	FALSE
				Does ST1 Consider Bucketless?	FALSE

OLA 5 - Workload, 3 Year RI (AUP)

This design uses the Reserved All-Upfront 3-Year AWS price plan, License Mobility through SA, and attempts to Optimize Cost and Reduce the Number of Cores where possible.

Pricing Plan Setting	Setting	Compute Tuning Setting	Setting	Storage Tuning Setting	Setting	Network Tuning Setting	Setting
Tenancy	Shared	CPU and Instance Family	TRUE	Storage Capacity Scaling	100%	Network Load Factor	10%
Licenses: BYOL	FALSE	Target Peak CPU Threshold	80%	Analyze Type	3rd Standard Deviation	Analyze Type	3rd Standard Deviation
Licenses: License Mobility through SA (For MSSQL)	FALSE	Analyze Type	2nd Standard Deviation	Max RAID Disk Numbers:
License Optimization	Optimize Cost and Reduce Number of Cores	Instance Family Grid	[See Grid]	EBS	Unlimited
Pricing Plan	Reserved Full Upfront 3-year	Instance Type	FALSE	GP3	10
Region	[Set on Assessment Launch]	Workload Based Tuning: RDS	FALSE	GP2	10
Discount %	0%	Workload Based Tuning: SAP	FALSE	ST1	0
Observed On-Time?	TRUE			SC1	0
On-time Hours Per Week	FALSE			IO1	Unlimited
				Credit Based Storage:
				Does GP2 Consider Bucketless?	FALSE
				Does SC1 Consider Bucketless?	FALSE
				Does ST1 Consider Bucketless?	FALSE

OLA 6 - Workload, RI 3 Year (NUP)

This design uses the Reserved No-Upfront 3-Year AWS price plan, License Mobility through SA, and attempts to Optimize Cost and Reduce the Number of Cores where possible.

Pricing Plan Setting	Setting	Compute Tuning Setting	Setting	Storage Tuning Setting	Setting	Network Tuning Setting	Setting
Tenancy	Shared	CPU and Instance Family	TRUE	Storage Capacity Scaling	100%	Network Load Factor	10%
Licenses: BYOL	FALSE	Target Peak CPU Threshold	80%	Analyze Type	3rd Standard Deviation	Analyze Type	3rd Standard Deviation
Licenses: License Mobility through SA (For MSSQL)	TRUE	Analyze Type	2nd Standard Deviation	Max RAID Disk Numbers:
License Optimization	Optimize Cost and Reduce Number of Cores	Instance Family Grid	[See Grid]	EBS	Unlimited
Pricing Plan	Reserved No Upfront 3-year	Instance Type	FALSE	GP3	10
Region	[Set on Assessment Launch]	Workload Based Tuning: RDS	FALSE	GP2	10
Discount %	0%	Workload Based Tuning: SAP	FALSE	ST1	0
Observed On-Time?	TRUE			SC1	0
On-time Hours Per Week	FALSE			IO1	Unlimited
				Credit Based Storage:
				Does GP2 Consider Bucketless?	FALSE
				Does SC1 Consider Bucketless?	FALSE
				Does ST1 Consider Bucketless?	FALSE

OLA 7 - Workload, Dedicated Hosts

This design uses the Dedicated Hosts for Windows and SQL AWS price plan, BYOL Licenses, and no license or core optimizations.

Pricing Plan Setting	Setting	Compute Tuning Setting	Setting	Storage Tuning Setting	Setting	Network Tuning Setting	Setting
Tenancy	Dedicated Hosts for Windows and SQL	CPU and Instance Family	TRUE	Storage Capacity Scaling	100%	Network Load Factor	10%
Licenses: BYOL	TRUE	Target Peak CPU Threshold	80%	Analyze Type	3rd Standard Deviation	Analyze Type	3rd Standard Deviation
Licenses: License Mobility through SA (For MSSQL)	FALSE	Analyze Type	2nd Standard Deviation	Max RAID Disk Numbers:
License Optimization	None	Instance Family Grid	[See Grid]	EBS	Unlimited
Pricing Plan	Reserved No Upfront 3-year	Instance Type	FALSE	GP3	10
Region	[Set on Assessment Launch]	Workload Based Tuning: RDS	FALSE	GP2	10
Discount %	0%	Workload Based Tuning: SAP	TRUE	ST1	0
Observed On-Time?	TRUE			SC1	0
On-time Hours Per Week	FALSE			IO1	Unlimited
				Credit Based Storage:
				Does GP2 Consider Bucketless?	FALSE
				Does SC1 Consider Bucketless?	FALSE
				Does ST1 consider Bucketless?	FALSE

OLA 8 - RDS Workload, 1 Year RI (NUP)

This design uses AWS Relational Database Services with the Reserved No-Upfront 1-Year price plan, no license transferal or optimization, and no core optimization.

Pricing Plan Setting	Setting	Compute Tuning Setting	Setting	Storage Tuning Setting	Setting	Network Tuning Setting	Setting
Tenancy	Shared	CPU and Instance Family	TRUE	Storage Capacity Scaling	100%	Network Load Factor	10%
Licenses: BYOL	FALSE	Target Peak CPU Threshold	80%	Analyze Type	3rd Standard Deviation	Analyze Type	3rd Standard Deviation
Licenses: License Mobility through SA (For MSSQL)	FALSE	Analyze Type	2nd Standard Deviation	Max RAID Disk Numbers:
License Optimization	None	Instance Family Grid	[See Grid]	EBS	Unlimited
Pricing Plan	Reserved No Upfront 1-year	Instance Type	FALSE	GP3	10
Region	[Set on Assessment Launch]	Workload Based Tuning: RDS	TRUE	GP2	10
Discount %	0%	Workload Based Tuning: SAP	TRUE	ST1	0
Observed On-Time?	TRUE			SC1	0
On-time Hours Per Week	FALSE			IO1	Unlimited
				Credit Based Storage:
				Does GP2 Consider Bucketless?	FALSE
				Does SC1 Consider Bucketless?	FALSE
				Does ST1 Consider Bucketless?	FALSE

OLA 9 - Workload, On-Demand, Graviton

This design is similar to the OLA 2 design, but adds support for AWS Graviton (ARM Processor, Linux compatible) instances.

Graviton instances utilise ARM processors and support specific Linux operating systems. More information regarding them can be found on the AWS Website.

Linux-based systems in the assessment will include Graviton instances where appropriate and available in recommendations for this design. Graviton instances can also be enabled in a custom design and will be considered in the same way, by enabling the relevant instances in the instance grid (compute tab). These instances are usually appended with the letter “g”, but check the AWS documentation for a full list.

Pricing Plan Setting	Setting	Compute Tuning Setting	Setting	Storage Tuning Setting	Setting	Network Tuning Setting	Setting
Tenancy	Shared	CPU and Instance Family	TRUE	Storage Capacity Scaling	100%	Network Load Factor	10%
Licenses: BYOL	FALSE	Target Peak CPU Threshold	80%	Analyze Type	3rd Standard Deviation	Analyze Type	3rd Standard Deviation
Licenses: License Mobility	TRUE	Analyze Type	2nd Standard Deviation	Max RAID Disk Numbers:
License Optimization	Optimize Cost and Reduce Number of Cores	Instance Family Grid	[See Grid]	EBS	Unlimited
Pricing Plan	On-Demand	Instance Type	FALSE	GP3	10
Region	[Set on Assessment Launch]	Workload Based Tuning: RDS	FALSE	GP2	10
Discount %	0%	Workload Based Tuning: SAP	TRUE	ST1	0
Observed On-Time?	TRUE			SC1	0
On-time Hours Per Week	FALSE			IO1	Unlimited
				Credit Based Storage:
				Does GP2 Consider Bucketless?	FALSE
				Does SC1 Consider Bucketless?	FALSE
				Does ST1 Consider Bucketless?	FALSE

OLA 10 - Workload, On-Demand with SQL Licensing

This design is similar to OLA 2, without license mobility or BYOL, and with several added instance types.

Pricing Plan Setting	Setting	Compute Tuning Setting	Setting	Storage Tuning Setting	Setting	Network Tuning Setting	Setting
Tenancy	Shared	CPU and Instance Family	TRUE	Storage Capacity Scaling	100%	Network Load Factor	10%
Licenses: BYOL	FALSE	Target Peak CPU Threshold	80%	Analyze Type	3rd Standard Deviation	Analyze Type	3rd Standard Deviation
Licenses: License Mobility	FALSE	Analyze Type	2nd Standard Deviation	Max RAID Disk Numbers:
License Optimization	Optimize Cost and Reduce Number of Cores	Instance Family Grid	[See Grid]	EBS	Unlimited
Pricing Plan	On-Demand	Instance Type	FALSE	GP3	10
Region	[Set on Assessment Launch]	Workload Based Tuning: RDS	FALSE	GP2	10
Discount %	0%	Workload Based Tuning: SAP	TRUE	ST1	0
Observed On-Time?	TRUE			SC1	0
On-time Hours Per Week	FALSE			IO1	Unlimited
				Credit Based Storage:
				Does GP2 Consider Bucketless?	FALSE
				Does SC1 Consider Bucketless?	FALSE
				Does ST1 Consider Bucketless?	FALSE

For further details on AWS price plans and features, please review AWS's own documentation or get in touch with them directly.