FREE Monitoring of Amazon EC2 Instances

Written by Kin Lane
Dec 3, 2010

Amazon CloudWatch has matured and now is available with a Freemium tier for monitoring your EC2 instance at no charge. Amazon Cloudwatch allows you to monitor:

• CPU Load
• Disk Input / Ouput
• Network Input / Output

For your Amazon EC2 instances. The data is collected every five minutes and stored for two weeks.

In true essence of a Freemium model you can then upgrade to a more detailed monitoring for .0015 / per hour per instance.

If you are looking to take advantage of truly auto-scaling your Amazon EC2 infrastructure you need to start getting familiar with how Amazon CloudWatch works

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