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Do YOU know what you spent on AWS in 2010 ?
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 :-)
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AWS monitoring alerts via SMS
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 :-)
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Ylastic Dashboard Redux
So, last night SQS had an issue where some of the API calls were not working. How does something like that show up in your Ylastic dashboard?
The dashboard page displays icons for each of the AWS regions - green good, red bad. If you look at the screenshot below, you see a flashing red icon in the US East region in North Virginia.
Just click the red icon to display a visualization of your EC2/RDS instances in the US East region. At the top, there is a list of services in that region. Again, you will see SQS flashing red. Hmm, something wrong with the service? Hover over it to display the current issue with that service.
If you were monitoring instances, and an alert was triggered, the specific EC2/RDS instances will also be flashing red. Manage your cloud, the easy way !
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Managing your RDS resources in US West Region
Ylastic now supports complete management, monitoring and alerting for RDS in the newly announced N. California region.
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Management, Monitoring and Alerting for AWS APAC
Ylastic supports the new AWS APAC East region in Singapore.
- Amazon EC2
- Amazon SNS
- Amazon SQS
- Amazon SimpleDB
- Amazon Cloudwatch
- Amazon Elastic Load Balancing
- Amazon Autoscaling
- Amazon RDS
- Monitoring
- Alerting
- Scheduled Tasks
- Multiple AWS Accounts
Manage your cloud!
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Scheduling Snapshots for MySQL instances in RDS
Ylastic has a new scheduled task for automating the creation of snapshots for your db instances. Specify the name of the db instance, the number of latest snapshots that you want to keep, and a schedule, and off you go!
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Mobile RDS Cloudwatch for iPhone and Android
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!
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Amazon RDS - Management/Monitoring/Alerting
Ylastic now supports management, monitoring and alerting for the recently introduced Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). Set up and scale those MySQL based databases in the cloud easily:
- Manage DB instances.
- Manage DB parameter groups for configuring your database.
- Manage DB security authorizations.
- Manage DB snapshots and restoration of new DBs.
- View all DB events logged by RDS.
- View pending changes to your databases.
- Monitor your databases by setting thresholds and getting alerts when they are triggered - email, twitter, jabber and voice.
- Easily view and zoom into your DB cloud watch metrics to look at the data you want.
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