At GumGum we are using autoscaling successfully. Choosing the right metrics for autoscaling is an ongoing process as your cluster and applications change. When we researched which metrics to use for autoscaling we found very little literature in the blogosphere. That is why I decided to document our experiences with it.
Amazon recently announced the AWS SDK for java. SDK or a java api is very much needed – especially if you are writing your automation scripts in groovy. We have tried multiple java apis in our scripts including JetS3t and Typica. These apis were really helpful, but they only supported some of the AWS services [...]
Amazon ec2 costs can grow very fast if you are not mindful of the Amazon ec2 billing structure. We came across the following ways to save money at our company. Keep machines in the same availability zone Don’t scatter your machines that talk to each other across multiple availability zones. You will end up paying [...]
Amazon documentation states that Auto Scaling allows you to automatically scale your Amazon EC2 capacity up or down according to conditions you define. Simply put, it can start and stop ec2 instances based on a condition you define. This is especially important in an environment where you pay more for more capacity. Thus if a [...]
