The book I read to research this post was Cloudwatch A Getting Started Guide which is a very good book which I downloaded for free from kindle. To use Cloudwatch you need an Amazon Web Services account which you can get at http://aws.amazon.com and you have to fill in your details and then you get an automated phone call which gives you a pin number which you must enter on your phone. You have to install the java plugin, at least v1.5 which you can get at http://java.com
You have to install a program which lets you use Cloudwatch on your workstation and the procedure varies according on whether you run windows or linux. If you need to do that I recommend that you read this guide as it's quite complicated. Cloudwatch basically works with Elastic Compute Cloud which will be your virtual server, and Simple Notification Service, if you choose to be notified by email. It also works with Auto Scaling in that you can define what you want it to do under circumstances. For example say if the processor reaches 90% output, you might tell it to open another instance of EC2 & notify you via SNS. Don't forget if you're using EC2 you need to supply an operating system. I saw a windows server 2008 dvdrom for £23.99 on http://amazon.co.uk which I thought is quite cheap.
You have to install a program which lets you use Cloudwatch on your workstation and the procedure varies according on whether you run windows or linux. If you need to do that I recommend that you read this guide as it's quite complicated. Cloudwatch basically works with Elastic Compute Cloud which will be your virtual server, and Simple Notification Service, if you choose to be notified by email. It also works with Auto Scaling in that you can define what you want it to do under circumstances. For example say if the processor reaches 90% output, you might tell it to open another instance of EC2 & notify you via SNS. Don't forget if you're using EC2 you need to supply an operating system. I saw a windows server 2008 dvdrom for £23.99 on http://amazon.co.uk which I thought is quite cheap.
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