AWS Management Console - Auto Scaling Support
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AWS Management Console - Auto Scaling Support
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Re: AWS Management Console - Auto Scaling Support
#2It always struck me as odd that one of the original defining features of AWS never had a web interface. Maybe they were making it API-only to protect people from shooting themselves in the foot with exorbitant bills. Regardless through I'm really glad to see this finally!
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#3Is it just me or is there still no option to do scheduled scaling from the web interface? Regardless this is still cool!
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#4Nice one!
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#5It always struck me as odd that one of the original defining features of AWS never had a web interface. Maybe they were making it API-only to protect people from shooting themselves in the foot with exorbitant bills. Regardless through I'm really glad to see this finally!
I think another part of it is that an API interface actually makes more sense. While the necessity for the non-technically inclined are pretty obvious, auto-scaling shouldn't usually be done reactively, and doing so is at the expense of optimal service delivery.
That said, I can imagine a good number of times it could come in handy, even for the techiest of us.
It might have simply not been the lowest hanging fruit, and the one thing I keep noticing that with AWS is that there are only two types of features they roll out -- new SKUs (e.g., something new that they can charge money for) and services that they should have written a long time ago, but probably didn't, because they were too busy launching new SKUs.
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#6It always struck me as odd that one of the original defining features of AWS never had a web interface. Maybe they were making it API-only to protect people from shooting themselves in the foot with exorbitant bills. Regardless through I'm really glad to see this finally!
Yeah been wondering this myself. I think that's how Heroku really emerged in the scene, AWS gave you the ability to scale but didn't make it easy by any means (relative to 'heroku scale web n'). I doubt billing was the issue either considering tools for billing monitoring and email warnings have been in place for a while. My guess is that things that don't scale easily (db, workers, etc) which, are what most EC2 is used for, have to be scaled with an API and consequently that unprioritized webserver type autoscaling.
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#7This is excellent news! I was just about to start exploring the auto-scaling capability for our cluster. Even if the API has more flexibility/options, this should make it much easier to get started with the basics.
Now I just wish AWS management console itself got some TLC.....it can be pretty difficult and cumbersome to use sometimes. Even products for fellow devs should have beautiful UIs.
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#8After I just spent ages setting this up via the API!
Actually there is a nice, cheap service called ezautoscaling.com - looks like a hacker side project but supports the full API including schedules, which I think are missing from the official AWS offering.
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#9After I just spent ages setting this up via the API! Actually there is a nice, cheap service called ezautoscaling.com - looks like a hacker side project but supports the full API including schedules, which I think are missing from the official AWS offering.
You can do scheduling with OpsWorks, I believe.
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#10I just searched for this again this week. Finally in the console. I do prefer the api once I understand something but the console is great for a first walk through.