Monitoring in AWS Console

The new Amazon Cloudwatch monitoring ($0.015 per hour for each Amazon EC2 instance, so that’s about 10 US$/month per server) graphs in the (free) AWS console for ec2 instances are AWESOME:

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(Yea, that’s a strange disk read spike there…) Now I just have to learn to interpret these and understand what’s going on there.

# Sep 4, 2009