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August 13, 2010

Slice, Dice and Monitor your AWS Costs

Trying to get a handle on your spending for AWS?
Want to slice and dice the costs by service to see the distribution of your spending?
Need a bird's eye view of your daily costs for a service?
Want to monitor your costs?
Get alerts when cost thresholds set by you are crossed?
You say you also want to view last month's spending?
The damage for the whole year?
And you also want to view them on the go from your iPhone, Android or Blackberry?

We have just the right fix for you. Introducing Ylastic's latest feature - AWS Usage costs crunched, sliced, diced and delivered to you just the way you want.

Create monitors for costs either for individual services or for all of them and get alerts when thresholds are breached via email, twitter, jabber, or even a voice alert to your phone. Did you say SMS? Ylastic now supports SMS for all alerts. Here's an SMS delivered to Google Voice!

Get a handle on those cloud costs, and simplify your cloud management. Even more cost related tools coming to Ylastic soon!

Filed under // EC2 alerts aws costs features mobile

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August 5, 2010

Tag EC2 AMIs as favorites

The popularity of EC2 has resulted in an explosion in the number of public images or AMIs available for your launching/customizing pleasure. You may or may not want to create a private AMI from every interesting one that you come across. But you do need to be able to find it agan whenever you want without rummaging through all of the public images again and again. Happens to us a lot, so we scratched our own itch, and just added the ability to tag public AMIs to Ylastic.

You search for an AMI once, and then tag it as a favorite and give it a description if you like. It will be in your Favorite Images list till you untag it.

Simple, but quite useful!

Filed under // EC2 ami aws features

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June 23, 2010

Super simple AMI migration between EC2 regions

Select the AMI that you want to copy, click an icon and provide some info. Thats it! Now go get some coffee or check your twitter feed :-)

Ylastic will create all the required machinery and migrate your AMI. Once the new AMI is ready, you will receive an email notification.

Yep. As simple as that.

Copy any public EBS backed linux AMI - Fedora, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, Redhat to a private AMI in the region of your choice.
Migrate any of your private EBS backed linux AMIs to any region of your choice.

Manage your cloud, the easy way!

Filed under // EC2 ami aws features migration

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May 23, 2010

Live Visualization Dashboard for EC2 and RDS

World map with flashing circles represents the current state of your servers and service state in each AWS region. Click to get a bird's eye view of all your EC2 and RDS server resources and their heartbeats in real-time in that region. Pulsating circles represent your servers, the boxes represent availability zones and the circle size corresponds to the class of server. Hover over a server to view its information. Alerts will cause the associated circle to go red and start flashing. Every time there is an update, all the circles will briefly turn yellow. Ylastic also tracks service status in each region. The service name at the top will start flashing red if there are any issues. Manage your cloud, the easy way!

The HD version of this screencast is in the Ylastic Channel at Vimeo.

Filed under // EC2 buzz features screencast

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April 15, 2010

Managing RDS resources in EU

Ylastic now supports management, monitoring and alerting for all your RDS resources in EU region. You can seamlessly manage your dbs in both US east and EU. Here are some screenies.