Cloud Computing: Amazon Launches New Reporting Tools For EC2
January 30, 2014
Grazed from TechCrunch. Author: Frederic Lardinois.
Amazon Web Services users today got a new reporting tool for the EC2 cloud computing platform. This will make it quite a bit easier to track how they are using their regular and reserved instances and what it costs them. Amazon used to do very little to hide the power of its cloud computing platform behind pretty, New Relic-like graphs and usage reports.
Lately, however, it seems the company has been listening to its users. Earlier this month, the company launched a new Billing Console that gives users a dashboard with colorful, very un-AWS-like graphs to keep track of their cloud computing cost across Amazon’s services…
Today’s update is squarely focused on EC2. As Amazon notes, the new usage reports are meant to give you "insights into your instance usage and your usage patterns, and will provide you with information that you need to optimize your EC2 usage."…
Read more from the source @ http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/29/amazon-launches-new-reporting-tools-for-ec2/
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