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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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More goodies on the way. Enjoy :-)

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

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June 19, 2011
 

Route53 backup to S3

Ylastic can now backup all your Route53 hosted zones to S3. Each of your hosted zones will be exported to BIND zone file format and saved to the S3 bucket of your choice. Sounds complicated? How about as simple as select the zones to backup, pick a bucket and click a button.

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We love simple, so we extended it to also give you the ability to schedule your Route53 backups on a recurring time period of your choice :-)

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Manage your AWS environment, the easy way!

Filed under  //   EC2   aws   backup   bucket   disaster   recovery   route53   s3   scheduling   task   zone  

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June 3, 2010
 

Scheduling your EBS backed Instances

Ylastic just added tasks for scheduling your EBS backed EC2 instances.

  • Start an instance and assign an elastic ip address to it on a schedule.
  • Stop an instance on  schedule.

 

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Super simple scheduling for the cloud!

 

 

Filed under  //   EC2   aws   ebs   scheduling  

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March 19, 2010
 

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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Filed under  //   aws   rds   scheduling  

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February 9, 2010
 

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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October 23, 2009
 

Scheduling Tasks on the AWS Cloud

Ylastic now has a simple way for you to schedule tasks on AWS. Pick a task and specify how you would like it scheduled:

  • At a certain time : Lets you run a task once at a specified time, for instance October 31, 10:00.
  • Every so often : Lets you run a task forever at the specified time interval, for instance every 30 minutes, 2 hours or 10 days.
In this initial release, you can schedule two kinds of tasks:
  • Launch an instance from a launch configuration.
  • Snapshot EBS volumes.
This covers a lot of common tasks that you can perform in a scheduled manner on AWS such as run reports daily, run periodic tasks such as processing log files, snapshot your data volumes, etc. We are adding more tasks as we go. You can view a list of all your tasks, including the last time a task was run and the status from that run. If there are any errors while running the tasks, the error will also be displayed on the tasks page.
You will also receive an email notification if any errors are encountered while running your task.
Creating and editing a task is simple, and we have tried to make the entire process/UI easy and intuitive. In the screenshot below, you are setting up a scheduled task to "Launch an instance from launch configuration named Reports in the US region at 2009-10-20 15:28".
One more way to simplify your workflow in the cloud!

Filed under  //   EC2   aws   scheduling  

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