Ylastic now has a simple way for you to schedule tasks on AWS. Pick a task and specify how you would like it scheduled:
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At a certain time : Lets you run a task once at a specified time, for instance October 31, 10:00.
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Every so often : Lets you run a task forever at the specified time interval, for instance every 30 minutes, 2 hours or 10 days.
In this initial release, you can schedule two kinds of tasks:
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Launch an instance from a launch configuration.
- Snapshot EBS volumes.
This covers a lot of common tasks that you can perform in a scheduled manner on AWS such as run reports daily, run periodic tasks such as processing log files, snapshot your data volumes, etc. We are adding more tasks as we go. You can view a list of all your tasks, including the last time a task was run and the status from that run. If there are any errors while running the tasks, the error will also be displayed on the tasks page.
You will also receive an email notification if any errors are encountered while running your task.
Creating and editing a task is simple, and we have tried to make the entire process/UI easy and intuitive. In the screenshot below, you are setting up a scheduled task to "Launch an instance from launch configuration named Reports in the US region at 2009-10-20 15:28".
One more way to simplify your workflow in the cloud!
