Amazon Launches New Features For Elastic Compute Cloud: Scaling, Monitoring, and Traffic Distribution
Amazon Web Services today announced the public beta of new features for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). The new features purport to allow for simple and automatic monitoring, scaling, and traffic control using cloud resources.
"Monitoring cloud assets, scaling capacity automatically, and balancing traffic efficiently have been among the most requested Amazon EC2 features from our customers," said Peter DeSantis, General Manager of Amazon EC2. "Together, these capabilities provide customers more control of their AWS resources and enable them to architect for even better performance, resilience and cost savings."
The new features are threefold. Amazon CloudWatch is a web service for monitoring AWS cloud resources; Auto Scaling permits automatic growing and shrinking of Amazon EC2 capacity based on demand; and Elastic Load Balancing distributes incoming traffic across Amazon EC2 compute instances.
CloudWatch gives Amazon customers visibility into resource use, operational performance, and overall demand patterns, including metrics such as CPU use, disk reads and writes, and network traffic. Auto Scaling ensures EC2 usage increases during traffic spikes to maintain performance and decreases during lulls to reduce costs, making it particularly appropriate for apps with frequent use fluctuations. Elastic Load Balancing allows for fault tolerance in applications, detects unhealthy instances within a pool, and reroutes traffic to healthy instances until the unhealthy instances have been restored.
Amazon hopes these features will improve application performance, lower costs, and make life easier for developers and entrepreneurs. Amazon CloudWatch and Elastic Load Balancing are available on a pay-as-you-go basis, and Auto Scaling is enabled by Amazon CloudWatch and carries no additional fees. Features are currently available in the U.S. and should be available in the EU shortly.
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This is all good and wonderful. But has anyone stopped and wondered, where is google's cloud solution? Sure, they have google AppEngine...but it's not really a cloud solution.
I look forward to a true cloud solution (from google) that is pretty much free with no bells and whistles. Google's cloud solution will integrate well with existing stuff that I use on a day to day basis.
my 2 cents.
Monitoring cloud assets, scaling capacity automatically, and balancing traffic efficiently have been among the most requested Amazon EC2 features from our customers
The new features purport to allow for simple and automatic monitoring, scaling, and traffic control using cloud resources.
When Google was making pictures of streets.
When EMC was gobbling up RSA and figuring out what to do with VMWare.
When Microsoft was trying to sell VISTA.
When HP was trying to invent (itself?)
Then the online bookstore (Amazon) took the market by surprise with S3 and EC2 to become market leader in cloud computing with paying customers.
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Do your computers go down easily? If so, this can cause you to lose a lot of money. Think about the costs associated with lost work. If you are experiencing this problem, you should look into getting a hardware load balancer. Definitely a cost effective way to help combat server issues. I use the loadmaster 2000 and it has worked out great...it was one of the cheapest ones i have found, but has really helped our company out in both saving money in the long run and with getting rid of the "downtime" that we were experiencing.
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Do your computers go down easily? If so, this can cause you to lose a lot of money. Think about the costs associated with lost work. If you are experiencing this problem, you should look into getting a hardware load balancer. Definitely a cost effective way to help combat server issues. I use the loadmaster 2000 and it has worked out great...it was one of the cheapest ones i have found, but has really helped our company out in both saving money in the long run and with getting rid of the "downtime" that we were experiencing
This is all good and wonderful. But has anyone stopped and wondered, where is google's cloud solution? Sure, they have google AppEngine...but it's not really a cloud solution.
I look forward to a true cloud solution (from google) that is pretty much free with no bells and whistles. Google's cloud solution will integrate well with existing stuff that I use on a day to day basis.
my 2 cents.
This is really a great idea I am surprised it's not in wider use already.