ec2base

http://loadstorm.com/

Type Monthly Max Concurrent Users
Breeze FREE (forever) 25

http://monitorcloud.com/monitorcloud

The main monitoring features of Monitis Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) and S3 cloud storage on-demand cloud monitoring service are: external monitoring of launched Amazon virtual servers and generate notifications to users upon breaking the threshold level, dynamically and adaptively monitor web servers, mail servers, databases etc without the need of manually adding each monitor and rules per server, automatically install Monitis agent on new servers and monitor performance metrics plus generate notifications when resources are detected to be low, proactive notification to users if a server is lost in the Amazon cloud.

https://www.cloudkick.com/home

cloud server management
easy & completely free

Just SIGN UP and add your API keys to get started.

Major blow to rightscale.
THE POWER OF OPEN SOURCE

http://mapbox.com/

MapBox is a suite of open source tools to create beautiful custom maps in Amazon’s cloud.

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2009/12/thirdparty-aws-tracking-sites.html

A couple of really cool third-party AWS tracking sites have sprung up lately. Some of these sites make use of AWS data directly and others measure it using their own proprietary methodologies. I don’t have any special insight in to the design or operation of these sites, but at first glance they appear to be reasonably accurate.

http://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/000557

If you have built a killer application on Amazon Web Services, you may reach a point where you don’t want to continue to use them. I can think of any number of reasons you may want to migrate your servers.

It may be because you’ve reached the 20 server instance, or because you want more control, or because you want to buy your own machines and spend money on a system administrator instead of paying Amazon, or because there’s something that you need customized that’s ‘behind the curtain’ of AWS.

http://cloudsplit.com/

CloudSplit is the first company to offer a real time view on what is happening on your Amazon grid from a cost perspective. We can all understand that cloud computing can significantly reduce our infrastructure spend, but even cloud costs can mount up if we use our clouds carelessly.

CloudSplit will ensure you don’t accidentally overspend, by tracking your cloud spending in real-time and giving you clear graphical breakdowns of how those costs were accrued.

CI in a box and Hudson.

http://thediscoblog.com/2009/11/24/provisioning-a-hudson-ci-server/

http://www.ciinabox.com/

CI in a Box is one of the easiest ways to get up and running with Continuous Integration– in fact, if you don’t believe me, check out the CI in a Box tutorial video. As you’ll see, CI in a Box makes setting up a Hudson CI server practically a breeze by leveraging Amazon’s EC2; what’s more, the video quickly sets up an SVN project that contains an Ant build (don’t worry, CI in a Box supports Maven as well!).

http://adam.blog.heroku.com/past/2009/2/11/taps_for_easy_database_transfers/

Migrating databases from one server to another is a pain: mysqldump on old server -> gzip -> scp big dump file -> gunzip -> mysql. It takes a long time, and is very manual and (and thus error-prone), and generally has the stink of “lame” hanging about it.

Ricardo Chimal, Blake Mizerany and I cooked up our attempt at a solution to this problem: Taps.

http://www.webslug.info/

Webslug was conceived as an all encompassing way of testing site performance. It measures load time as the user sees it. The time it takes for a page to load fully from when the request was made.

The main benefit of Webslug is that it doesn’t require any download or any program to be installed. Just enter your website’s address and it’s all done in your browser.

http://simplebackr.com/

Super easy backup and restore.

We’ll probably add some automatic scheduling features down the road and charge a nominal fee, but right now everything is free and we never plan to charge for the core backup functiionality.

http://workspace.globus.org/

Nimbus is an open source toolkit that allows you to turn your cluster into an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud. Feature highlights include:

Implementation based on the Xen hypervisor (KVM coming soon), read more about supported virtualization technologies…

Wow. Build you own EC2.
And try selling it. Ra!