Five Apps: Tools to help manage Amazon AWS

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Five Apps: Tools to help manage Amazon AWS

By Wally Bahny October 1, 2013, 8:18 AM PDT

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AsrnIT professionals, and computer enthusiasts, we throw around a lot of acronyms. Perhapsrntwo of the most popular in the last few years are IaaSrn(Infrastructure-as-a-Service) and PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service). These arerncommonly associated with cloud hosting providers, such as Amazon AWS,rnRackSpace, Windows Azure, and countless others. And while each of thesernproviders offer their own management interfaces, the major players oftenrnprovide APIs which allows for third party management tools, custom scripting,rnand other automation.

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The dashboard for Enstratius contains some information tornhelp get new users started as well as the ability to monitor Enstratius andrnAmazon services.

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Under the Compute menu, Servers lists all active servers inrnyour Amazon AWS environment

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Enstratius contains some quick-glance usage statistics onrnyour servers.

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Enstratius helps administrators monitor and project theirrnsystem expenditures.

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Scalr is very farm-based. rnFor demonstrative purposes, Scalr offers a LAMP farm which helps newrnusers understand their software.

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It is also possible to import your existing Amazon serversrninto Scalr, however it must be done by creating a role based on that server andrnthen re-deploying it as a clone.

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Scalr is very verbose when doing tasks. This is a listing of the steps taken to buildrna role from an existing Amazon server.

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Once the role is built, you can use it here to deploy asrnmany clones as you would like.

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RightScale has a customizable Quick Monitoring dashboard onrnthe left menu. Also, deploying machinesrnis quite easy with the built in server templates.

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In addition to the Quick Monitoring dashboard, full sizerngraphs of nearly every hardware aspect of the server are available within thernMonitoring tab of a server’s configuration screen

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In addition to reporting Amazon costs, RightScale alsornreports costs from using their management environment.

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Hybridfox is a Firefox plugin that provides access tornbasically as many options as any of the other competitors’ software.

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Hybridfox allows admins to customize aspects of its remoternmanagement tools, including SSH and RDP.

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Amazon’s Instance list looks similar to the API-basedrnproducts’ server lists and has all of the same options.

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Monitoring is also available in the Amazon AWS Console.

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Most of the server options are found via right-click menu.

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