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Announcing spending analytics for all your CloudFront distributions integrated into the comfort of your Ylastic dashboard. Spending charts for the current month, last month, last year and current year.

View spending by regional data transfer. 

By the type of requests being made for your content.

You can also view spending by content delivery type and yep, by distribution. Want to check out summaries of your CloudFront spending analytics on your mobile phone? We got that too.

Enjoy :-)

Last week, we added support for two-step verification aka MFA for Ylastic web version. We just rolled out this security feature to all versions of Ylastic mobile - iPhone, Android and Blackberry6. 

All versions of Ylastic now leverage this enhanced security feature. Enjoy!

AWS continues to provide innovative pay-as-you-go infrastructure services, and we find more and more uses for them. Ylastic is built and run entirely on AWS, so we tend to rack up the expenses between production, and the various development and testing environments. But we do keep a close tab on our AWS spending, especially EC2 which is the largest component of our expenses. Ylastic helps us keep an eye on our spending on Ylastic. Here is a sampling from the spending analytics for one of our testing accounts for last year - 2010. 

Visualize the division of your spending, so you know where to optimize. Spending too much on EBS snapshots? Maybe you dont need snapshots at such a frequent schedule. 

View spending by region - Most testing happens for this account in US East, hence the skewed spending.

If you are on the go, you can still view and keep track of the spending data on your iPhone, Android or Blackberry6.

Alerts when spending exceeds thresholds set by you? Yep, we got that. Even more spending related analytics on the way :-)

Are you a texting ninja that gets their info fixes via short messages? Ylastic can send you AWS alerts via SMS. If you want to receive an SMS on an international number, just append a +CountryCode to the phone number on the settings page :-)

Ping is a nice little network utility, and a great way to quickly check connectivity to your EC2 instances and get a feel for the latency by measuring the round trip times. This of course requires that the security group for your instances allow ICMP traffic. If you do have ICMP enabled, you can check ping times to your EC2 instance from 6 locations around the world - San Francisco, London, Sydney, Hong Kong, Moscow and New York, with a click from Ylastic. Here are the ping times to one of our c1.xlarge instances running in the US east region (N. Virginia).

You can even do this from your mobile - iPhone, Android or Blackberry6.

Yes. Really :-) Manage AWS from that Blackberry - Android - iPhone in your pocket!

New mobile devices running Blackberry OS6 are beginning to make their appearance around the world. Ylastic already supports the iPhone and Android based phones, and the latest release brings AWS management to the new Blackberry6 devices. So if you are in a corporate environment where iPhones and Androids are not used, check this out!

• 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!

Ylastic has complete support for the recently released EBS Cloudwatch metrics.

• View and drill into detailed Cloudwatch data for all your EBS volumes. Select time periods of your choice and view all the metrics on one page. All the times are in the timezone of your choice, not UTC.
  
• View EBS cloudwatch charts on your iPhone or Android. Keeps tabs on those pesky volumes while you are on the go.
  
• Set up monitors for any EBS metrics of your choice. You do want to know what's happening, right?
  
• Receive alerts via email, jabber, twitter or voice when those thresholds are triggered.
  

Manage your cloud, the easy way !

Ylastic now supports viewing the RDS Cloudwatch charts for your database instances on your iPhone or Android. Easy as can be - Select an instance and click to get the data. Put that smartphone in your pocket to work!