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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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Filed under  //   EC2   alerts   aws   elb   mobile   monitoring   rds   scaling  

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Timeline Visualization of EC2 Auto Scaling Activities, Monitoring Alerts and Audits

Tired of looking at all that time period based data as tables? So are we. Want something more visual, and easier to grok and navigate?

Introducing time line based visualization for EC2 auto scaling activities, your AWS monitoring alerts and audit history of all the changes made to your AWS environment.

  • A calendar like view that displays these events along with super simple navigation. 
  • Simply drag either of the panes to scroll across time periods. 
  • You can also click on any blue markers displayed in the bottom pane to navigate to that specific time.
  • Each event is displayed with a distinctive icon and a brief subject. 
  • Click any event to get more detail. 
  • And you can even toggle between this new timeline view and the usual tabular view with a simple click!

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Time based scaling for your EC2 fleet

Ylastic now supports a new scheduled task - one that can adjust the desired capacity for a scaling group. Why is that interesting, you say? Because it gives you an additional time-based way to scale your fleet of EC2 instances as opposed to the default load-based scaling from AWS. You can leverage the scaling group concept to do some nifty stuff around spinning up and down a set of instances. You want a large set of instances around between 9-5, which matches your business hours? Easy enough. Schedule one task to spin up the capacity at 9 AM and a corresponding matching task that spins them down at 5 PM. You can even use cron syntax to specify the schedule!

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Filed under  //   EC2   aws   scaling   scheduling  

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Spanning Multiple Availability Zones with Auto Scaling Groups

AWS released a nice little feature last week that did not seem to get much attention or fanfare on the internet. EC2 auto scaling groups can now span across multiple availability zones. This enables some additional niftiness for your EC2 fleet:

  • High availability by balancing a group of auto scaled EC2 instances spread across multiple Availability Zones.
  • Avoid insufficient capacity errors automatically by letting AWS rebalance your autoscaling group in an availability zone with capacity.
Ylastic lets you leverage this feature for your auto scaling groups:
  • You can create auto scaling groups which span multiple zones.
  • You can expand your existing auto scaling groups to additional zones.
Ah, auto scaled EC2 instances spanning multiple availability zones behind an elastic load balancer :-)

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