Cloud Comrade

Cloud Comrade | March 23, 2016

Cloud computing can help your business to keep costs down, not just because it requires less investment in computing resources than traditional, physical IT infrastructure, but also because, thanks to its straightforward manageability and flexible scalability, the cloud solutions also help your business to operate more efficiently, allowing you to save both time and money when it comes to getting your products or services to market....

Cloud Comrade | March 22, 2016

Today we are announcing the availability of two new CloudWatch metrics for monitoring network packets on EC2 instances. The new metrics are NetworkPacketsIn and NetworkPacketsOut. These new metrics provide insight into the number of network packets flowing to and from an EC2 instance. These metrics are available along with the other CloudWatch metrics for all EC2 instances on the EC2 console, CLI and API....

Cloud Comrade | March 21, 2016

Starting today, you can monitor the capacity and performance metrics of your Spot fleets via CloudWatch. You can view metrics such as total desired, fulfilled and currently launching capacity of a fleet, in addition to monitoring aggregated EC2 instance metrics such as CPU utilization, disk reads and writes, and network traffic for a given fleet. These metrics enable you to get visibility into the usage and performance of your Spot fleets, and to dynamically scale in response to application load...

Cloud Comrade | March 16, 2016

Cloud computing can help your business to keep costs down, not just because it requires less investment in computing resources than traditional, physical IT infrastructure, but also because, thanks to its straightforward manageability and flexible scalability, the cloud solutions also help your business to operate more efficiently, allowing you to save both time and money when it comes to getting your products or services to market....