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Ylastic can now send voice alerts to your phone when CloudWatch monitoring thresholds are triggered, Auto Scaling activities are initiated and AWS service health status changes are detected. Check out the screencast and turn up that volume :-)

You can get a voice alert when any of these parameters for a CloudWatch enabled instance exceed the threshold set by you.

• CPU Utilization
• Bytes read from all disks for instance
• Bytes written to all disks for instance
• Completed read operations from all disks for instance
• Completed write operations from all disks for instance
• Bytes received on all network interfaces for instance
• Bytes sent out on all network interfaces for instance
• Latency for the load balancer
• Number of requests processed by the load balancer
• Number of unhealthy instances for load balancer

You can also get voice alerts when EC2 initiates Auto Scaling activities for your scaling group, and when a service health change is detected for EC2, S3, SQS, SimpleDB and CloudFront. We only support US phone numbers for now, but international support is also on our list. The voice integration was done using the wonderful platform from Twilio. A hat tip to Evan and the team at Twilio for a great job with the API. What are YOU doing with Twilio?