Amazon Web Services Management tools/services
Posted by mikeg on June 16, 2008
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One Ruby Gem = easy EC2 computing cloud
- PoolParty is an open source tool that automates deployment, monitoring, and load balancing of EC2 instances. Configure once, and relax by the poolside — PoolParty will keep your site and its instances afloat.
- RightScale’s automated cloud computing management system helps you create scalable web applications that run on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud. Our advanced auto-scaling and load balancing features ensure your site’s uptime and reliability. The RightScale Dashboard makes it easy to setup, launch, and monitor all of your EC2 and AWS activities.
- Pricing starts at $500/mo with $2,500 setup
- Good article: http://blog.rightscale.com/2008/03/26/setting-up-a-fault-tolerant-site-using-amazons-availability-zones/
- Still in stealth
http://code.google.com/p/scalr/
- Open source
- TechCrunch Article The Auto-Scaling Open-Source Amazon EC2 Effort
- Diagrams: http://code.google.com/p/scalr/wiki/ProcessDiagrams
- Beta
- doesn’t have much information