This post will highlight the importance of Elastic Runtime Orchestration, a new feature that simplifies the experience of infrastructure setup and deployment of data management workload and optimizes resources through user — defined auto — scaling and observability. 

Enterprises today aim to execute mission critical integration and data management workloads on time while optimizing costs — a goal that is more important than ever in the agentic era, where autonomous AI agents and intelligent workflows demand continuously available, high quality, and instantly accessible data at scale.

However, achieving this often involves overcoming significant challenges:

• Infrastructure Management: MIntegration runtimes, both on-premises and on public cloud can be difficult to manage, as well as complex when addressing diverse workloads across departments.
• Capacity Adjustment: Without dynamic scaling, adjusting integration runtime capacity to match fluctuating demands is challenging, leading to inefficient cost management. Enterprise cloud infrastructure waste — equivalent to $44.5 billion in 2025 — accounts for 21% of total spend on underutilized resources.¹
• Visibility and Monitoring: Limited enterprise-level insights into the health, utilization and job activity of integration runtime infrastructure hinder proactive planning.
• Automation and DevOps Integration: Enterprises require robust automation that integrates seamlessly with existing DevOps tools to streamline operations. Optimization tools are fully integrated into the software development lifecycle (SDLC),¹ according to 29% of Engineering leaders and developers.

Effective resource management requires a flexible, scalable platform that uses automation with a human in the loop to deliver tailored processes and an optimal cost-performance balance, ensuring solutions fit your unique needs.

Resource management challenges can be addressed through a spectrum of solution approaches, each with distinct advantages:

The ideal solution combines these approaches on a platform that enables enterprises to select the option that best suits their needs, ensuring both optimal performance and cost efficiency.

Informatica’s Elastic Runtime Orchestration is designed to tackle these challenges head-on. Now available to you, this feature empowers enterprises with a flexible, scalable and user-friendly platform (See figure 1).

Figure 1: Elastic Runtime Orchestration — A Data Plane Option for IDMC Workloads

It is built on the following principles:

• Open, Extensible and API-First: Offers multiple scaling options through robust APIs, enabling customization and flexible resource management tailored to your technology stack.
• Robust Integrations: Leverages Kubernetes to ensure seamless compatibility with major cloud providers and DevOps tools, delivering scalable and reliable integration with your existing workflows.
• User-Friendly Experience: The Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) native UI can be used to manage complex orchestration (See figure 2), making it accessible to users of all technical levels.

• Enhanced Observability: Provides enterprise-level visibility into health, utilization and job activity, fostering human-automation collaboration for optimal efficiency (See figure 3).

Figure 3: An illustration of workload observability

At the core of Elastic Runtime Orchestration is its auto-scaling capability, powered by Kubernetes, which dynamically adjusts compute resources to match workload demands. Operating within your AWS VPC, it scales up during data surges or complex computations to ensure seamless performance and scales down when demand decreases, preventing resource waste (See figure 4).

For added reliability, Elastic Runtime environments support High Availability (HA) mode, enabling you to configure multiple master nodes for fault tolerance and resilience. This ensures missing-critical workloads continue uninterrupted, even during node failures, further strengthening SLA confidence.

This delivers the performance required for mission-critical tasks, such as real-time analytics or large-scale data integration, enabling you to meet stringent Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with confidence.

Figure 4: An illustration of Elastic Runtime Orchestration in action

Elastic Runtime Orchestration optimizes AWS resource usage by scaling precisely to meet demand, eliminating over-provisioning and idle compute costs. This can lead to significant reductions in AWS compute expenses, allowing organizations to allocate their budget more effectively. Importantly, Informatica offers this powerful capability at no additional charge, delivering exceptional value without hidden fees for customers leveraging this new feature.

Security is a cornerstone of Elastic Runtime Environments. All data processing occurs within your AWS VPC, ensuring data sovereignty and compliance with regulatory standards. Fine-grained authentication and authorization mechanisms, coupled with encryption of data at rest and in transit, protect against unauthorized access. Additionally, Informatica enables secure management of application images —the building blocks for running your data processing tasks — by allowing you to download them via REST APIs to your preferred container registry, such as Amazon ECR or other repositories. This enables you to scan images for vulnerabilities and align with your organization’s security policies, enhancing trust and compliance without compromising performance.

Elastic Runtime Orchestration empowers enterprises with:

• SLA Confidence: Dynamic scaling ensures the timely completion of critical jobs, meeting stringent SLAs.
• Cost Savings: Optimized resource usage reduces AWS compute costs, maximizing ROI.
• No Extra Fees: Access to this advanced capability without additional charges from Informatica.
• Robust Security: Fine-grained authentication, encryption and secure image management secure your data.
• Compliance and Control: Data stays within your cloud VPC, maintaining sovereignty and meeting enterprise-level compliance needs.
• Scalability and Automation: Seamlessly handles growing datasets and integrates with DevOps tools for streamlined operations.
• Visibility: Enhanced monitoring enables proactive resource management and planning.

Elastic Runtime Orchestrations excel across a wide range of industries with high data demands. (See figure 5) for some examples where Elastic Runtime Orchestration can help.

Figure 5: Some examples of application of Elastic Runtime Orchestration

Informatica’s Elastic Runtime Orchestration delivers the flexibility, performance, security and cost efficiency enterprises need to conquer data management challenges. Whether you’re handling seasonal spikes, meeting regulatory deadlines, or powering real-time analytics, this solution scales based on your needs — securely and efficiently. Allow your admins to deploy runtime across environments with ease and scale infrastructure across departments, enabling developers to focus on development activities and meet SLAs easily.

Are you ready to transform your data workflows? There are several places to start:

• Watch this on-demand Webinar and learn more about this innovation
• Check out this video to understand how Elastic Runtime Orchestration can set you up for success
• For technical details, explore the official documentation page.
• Visit the Demo Center and stay up to date with IDMC with engaging demo videos
   

_{¹Report by Harness — FinOps in Focus 2025}