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Amazon Announces Free Monitoring for Amazon EC2 Instances

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Re: Amazon Announces Free Monitoring for Amazon EC2 Instances

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Post by jasonkester »

ovi256 wrote: post #8

Cop up, who's startup just died ? I hope it was more like a "startup idea" though.

Amazon has had monitoring for their instances for a year now. The only change is in the way that they price it.

It used to be expensive enough that you wouldn't leave it on at all times, but would turn it on to diagnose something or check up on one of your boxes, then turn it back off when you were done. Now you get a baseline low-fi version for free.

I think they just realized that nobody was paying for this service, and that it really didn't cost them anything to provide it. So they just made it free.

As far as Startup Killing goes, I doubt this will hurt any "Cloud Monitoring" startups significantly. If you look at the 5 basic charts they give you, you can see it's in line with their stand on reporting across all their services: They give you the basics, but leave plenty of room for somebody else to step in and deliver something better.

Re: Amazon Announces Free Monitoring for Amazon EC2 Instances

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Post by trotsky »

Better info in the email they sent out:

Dear Amazon EC2 Customer,

We're excited to let you know that as of today, all Amazon EC2 instances come with free Basic Monitoring metrics from our Monitoring service, Amazon CloudWatch. You don't need to do anything to make this happen. It's there for you to use. Simply sign in to the AWS Management Console and select one of your active instances. You will immediately be able to view graphs and track performance on metrics such as CPU utilization, disk reads and writes, and network traffic.

Basic Monitoring for Amazon EC2 provides metric data on instance performance at five-minute frequency. Customers can optionally choose to enable Detailed Monitoring, which provides metric data at one-minute frequency for an additional $0.015 per instance-hour.

In addition, starting today you can now set alarms for any metric that Amazon CloudWatch monitors. You can configure these alarms via API call to send notifications or initiate Auto Scaling actions when metrics cross certain thresholds. Alarm pricing starts at $0.10 per alarm per month.

All the features mentioned above are available immediately in all regions (US-N. Virginia, US-N. California, EU-Ireland, APAC-Singapore), and we invite you to try them today! Learn more about Amazon CloudWatch at: aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch.

Sincerely,

The Amazon Web Services Team

P.S. Amazon CloudWatch monitoring remains free of charge for Amazon EBS volumes, Elastic Load Balancers, and Amazon RDS DB instances.

Re: Amazon Announces Free Monitoring for Amazon EC2 Instances

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Post by chopsueyar »

ericflo wrote: post #3

I've been a Rackspace Cloud customer for years, and happily so, but it's this constant drumbeat of innovation and forward momentum at Amazon that makes me seriously reconsider my choice. I really want to see Rackspace step up its game over the next year, if for no other reason than to keep Amazon on its toes.

Let us know when/if Rackspace decides to step up to the plate (those publicly traded bastards).

Re: Amazon Announces Free Monitoring for Amazon EC2 Instances

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Post by chopsueyar »

europa wrote: post #13

What will be the impact of this on third party monitoring apps like CloudKick.?May be they have to provide more value addition on other areas of cloud computing like custom building of servers , automating sys-admin etc.

Their developers will have more time to write pithy responses on HN?
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