Rene, That's a good point. It also seems like the AWS Console is designed to make it easy to lose track of resources. One of the things Ytastic adds is easy monitoring and alerts. I can see where it could quickly pay for itself in preventing costs due to forgotten machines.
-Eric -=--=---=----=----=---=--=-=--=---=----=---=--=-=- Eric B. Wolf 720-334-7734 On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 12:06 PM, R E Sieber <[email protected]> wrote: > Just in general, monitor the number of VMs you create. They can fail, stay > idle for long periods of time and you still get charged. > > Renee > > > On 12-09-07 11:38 AM, Eric Wolf wrote: > >> I am helping a boutique geo company move their web architecture from a >> managed VPS to Amazon Web Services. Personally, I haven't done much more >> than set up test servers and play with Hadoop in AWS. Does anyone have >> general hints on tools, techniques and best practices? >> >> For instance, I just had to move an AMI from my personal account to the >> company account across AWS regions. Creating the AMI and sharing it was >> easy. Moving across regions was a total PITA. I ended up using >> Ylastic.com which is pretty cool but seems like overkill for this >> company's needs to pay for on-going. But the tech-fu level of the team >> is limited, so something like Ylastic may be a necessity. >> >> -Eric >> >> -=--=---=----=----=---=--=-=--**=---=----=---=--=-=- >> Eric B. Wolf 720-334-7734 >> >> >> >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Geowanking mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://geowanking.org/mailman/**listinfo/geowanking_**geowanking.org<http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org> >> >> > > ______________________________**_________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://geowanking.org/mailman/**listinfo/geowanking_**geowanking.org<http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org> >
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