Five Apps: Tools to help manage Amazon AWS
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Manage Amazon AWS
Manage Amazon AWS
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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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Five Apps for Managing Amazon EC2 Systems: Enstratius 1
Five Apps for Managing Amazon EC2 Systems: Enstratius 1
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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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Five Apps for Managing Amazon EC2 Systems: Enstratius 2
Under the Compute menu, Servers lists all active servers inrnyour Amazon AWS environment
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Five Apps for Managing Amazon EC2 Systems: Enstratius 3
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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Five Apps for Managing Amazon EC2 Systems: Scalr 1
Five Apps for Managing Amazon EC2 Systems: Scalr 1
Scalr is very farm-based. rnFor demonstrative purposes, Scalr offers a LAMP farm which helps newrnusers understand their software.
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Five Apps for Managing Amazon EC2 Systems: Scalr 2
Five Apps for Managing Amazon EC2 Systems: Scalr 2
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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Five Apps for Managing Amazon EC2 Systems: Scalr 3
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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Five Apps for Managing Amazon EC2 Systems: Scalr 4
Once the role is built, you can use it here to deploy asrnmany clones as you would like.
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Five Apps for Managing Amazon EC2 Systems: RightScale 1
Five Apps for Managing Amazon EC2 Systems: RightScale 1
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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Five Apps for Managing Amazon EC2 Systems: RightScale 2
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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Five Apps for Managing Amazon EC2 Systems: RightScale 3
In addition to reporting Amazon costs, RightScale alsornreports costs from using their management environment.
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Five Apps for Managing Amazon EC2 Systems: Hybridfox 1
Five Apps for Managing Amazon EC2 Systems: Hybridfox 1
Hybridfox is a Firefox plugin that provides access tornbasically as many options as any of the other competitors’ software.
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Five Apps for Managing Amazon EC2 Systems: Hybridfox 2
Hybridfox allows admins to customize aspects of its remoternmanagement tools, including SSH and RDP.
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Five Apps for Managing Amazon EC2 Systems: Amazon AWS 1
Five Apps for Managing Amazon EC2 Systems: Amazon AWS 1
Amazon’s Instance list looks similar to the API-basedrnproducts’ server lists and has all of the same options.
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Five Apps for Managing Amazon EC2 Systems: Amazon AWS 2
Monitoring is also available in the Amazon AWS Console.
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Five Apps for Managing Amazon EC2 Systems: Amazon AWS 3
Most of the server options are found via right-click menu.
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