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AWS Management Console - Auto Scaling Support
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Re: AWS Management Console - Auto Scaling Support
#12RightScale was the first with this feature, before it was available via the api. I'm looking forward to seeing how each cloud provider handles the UI for all this data.
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#13A question for other startups running a small time stack on top of AWS - how are you managing your scale up/scale down/fault tolerance on top of EC2 ?
For a small startup, we are not really talking OpsWorks - so what tools allow you to do this.
I'm trying to do this in a really small way for a project - but there are way too many deployment/monitoring/management tools to wrap my head around.
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#14Funny. Google App Engine auto scaled from day one.
Re: AWS Management Console - Auto Scaling Support
#15A question for other startups running a small time stack on top of AWS - how are you managing your scale up/scale down/fault tolerance on top of EC2 ? For a small startup, we are not really talking OpsWorks - so what tools allow you to do this. I'm trying to do this in a really small way for a project - but there are way too many deployment/monitoring/management tools to wrap my head around.
If you're small you can just use the tools Amazon provides you and get pretty far -- CloudFormation and/or OpsWorks, combined with AutoScaling (now configurable from the console! :) ).
Re: AWS Management Console - Auto Scaling Support
#16A question for other startups running a small time stack on top of AWS - how are you managing your scale up/scale down/fault tolerance on top of EC2 ? For a small startup, we are not really talking OpsWorks - so what tools allow you to do this. I'm trying to do this in a really small way for a project - but there are way too many deployment/monitoring/management tools to wrap my head around.
You can use CloudWatch which is already part of EC2 to monitor your instances for you. You can also have autoscaling scale up / down based on these metrics. You also can have Elastic Load Balancer monitor the health of your backend web hosts port state (ie: is the nginx port down for more than three health checks? OK kill that instance and replace it with a new one behind the ELB).
All of these functions are builtin to AWS and now with the new web interface it is much easier to configure autoscaling to do these types of things.
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#17Funny. Google App Engine auto scaled from day one.
EC2 has had auto-scaling for ages -- this is just the web interface.
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#18I would rather like to see better CPU performance first then auto-scale. Awful CPU performance is what keeping me away from EC2, trying linode nowadays..
Re: AWS Management Console - Auto Scaling Support
#19RightScale was the first with this feature, before it was available via the api. I'm looking forward to seeing how each cloud provider handles the UI for all this data.
I'm going to piggy-back on this comment and mention that Rackspace recently added auto-scale as well, FWIW.
Re: AWS Management Console - Auto Scaling Support
#20I would rather like to see better CPU performance first then auto-scale. Awful CPU performance is what keeping me away from EC2, trying linode nowadays..
Have you tried the new c3 instances?