The AWS Management Console now has complete support for Amazon CloudWatch. You can enable CloudWatch for any or all of your EC2 instances using the console and data will be available in a moment or two. You can select one or more running EC2 instances to see the CloudWatch data in graphical form. You can observe CPU utilization, disk reads, disk writes, and network traffic (both in and out). If you select more than one EC2 instance, the console will automatically display aggregated values.You can also get a larger and more detailed view of the data.

Here are some pictures of the console in action: Continue reading…

It is easier and easier easier for programmers to build sophisticated, scalable, and robust web applications using AWS, and now it became even easier. Amazon just released a new set of features to complement its EC2 offerings: load balancing, auto scaling, and cloud monitoring are now available.

The features work together to help you to build highly scalable and highly available applications.

Amazon CloudWatch monitors your Amazon EC2 capacity, Auto Scaling dynamically scales it based on demand, and Elastic Load Balancing distributes load across multiple instances in one or more Availability Zones.

The measurements collected by Amazon CloudWatch provide Auto Scaling with the information needed
to run enough Amazon EC2 instances to deal with the traffic load.

Auto Scaling updates the Elastic Load Balancing service when new instances are launched or terminated to automatically scale the load-balanced capacity.

You can instantiate, configure, and deploy these important system architecture components in seconds. More details… Continue reading…