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October 26, 2011

EC2 Auto Scaling Management

Refreshed our auto scaling support to include all of the recent features released by AWS. Here is a quick run through of the various things that you can do with auto scaling on EC2.

Create auto scaling groups with a new easy to use wizard that also lets you set up policies and their associated alarms for scaling up/down your EC2 fleet.

View and manage all of your resources associated with the scaling groups.

Suspend scaling processes to investigate any configuration issues with your app and resume scaling processes when you are done.

Create and manage scaling policies and their associated alarms to setup the thresholds for scaling your fleet of instances.

Setup scheduled scaling actions to increase/decrease the number of instances in your fleet. You can also setup the scaling action to be recurring on a schedule of your choice.

Peruse cloud watch charts of group metrics for the scaling group of your choice.

You can still manage your auto scaling groups that are using the trigger mechanism that has been deprecated by AWS.

More goodies on the way. Enjoy :-)

Filed under // EC2 actions alarms autoscaling aws configuration elb instance launch policies scheduling triggers

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July 11, 2011

Migrating EBS instances to an AMI in a different region

You have an EBS instance running in US east region. But you want to migrate this instance to an AMI in EU, for disaster recovery, testing, whatever. And you say want to do this simply and without major contortions, preferably via a GUI. We hear you :-) Ylastic now has the ability to migrate an EBS linux instance to an AMI in a region of your choice. Pick a few options, and click a button.

And receive an email when the migration is complete :-)

Enjoy :-)

Filed under // California EC2 Ireland Singapore Tokyo Virginia ami aws disaster instance migration recovery regions

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March 23, 2011

EC2 tag cloud and Multi-resource tagging

EC2 gives you the ability to assign meaningful metadata to your resources using tags, which are simple key-value pairs. We use tags quite a bit here at Ylastic, and needed a way to do tagging for multiple resources across all regions. We also wanted something that was easy on the eyes, and reduced the drudgery of mass tagging. Tags, something visual, simple to use - Tagcloud!

The terms in the cloud are displayed in a font that is weighted to visually indicate the number of times it occurs in your tag values. The terms will start moving around the cloud if your mouse is inside the tag cloud, and will stop when the mouse leaves the cloud. Click a value to get a grouped display of all matching EC2 resources with that tag value. Did we mention it will display all matching resources, across all regions? Click a group heading to go to the corresponding Ylastic page for that resource type.

Tag a whole bunch of resources with a click.

Click a button to edit a tag value and apply the change to all matching resources, across regions. If you have multiple keys with the same value, you can pick the key that you want to change :-)

Removing a tag is as simple as clicking a button.

Tags are very cool, manage them the easy way !

Filed under // EC2 aws image instance regions snapshot tagcloud tags volume

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