Amazon Web Services unveiled a suite of new features for Amazon EC2 which will help users monitor cloud capacity, scale on demand, and spread incoming traffic across multiple web servers. Amazon originally announced these features last fall, but the applications didn’t enter public beta until today.
The first feature, Amazon CloudWatch, provides customers with real-time visibility into resource utilization, operational performance, and overall demand patterns—including metrics such as CPU utilization, disk reads and writes, and network traffic. The metrics are rolled-up at one minute intervals and are retained for two weeks.
