using Cacti to monitor a large scale infrastructure in Amazon’s EC2

This is a quickie techie post that summarizes a few hours of learning that I wish someone else had put up on the web before me.

So, I wanted to be able to configure via Puppet the way our new instances should be configured, and then be able to easily spawn new instances that will get configured by said puppet

Creating your own AMIs will allow you to make the most of Amazon EC2. Your AMIs become the basic unit of deployment which allow you to rapidly boot new custom instances as you need them

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SimpleFPS allows PHP developers to stop worrying about some of the low-level implementation details of Amazon FPS. Easily make Amazon FPS API requests using REST or SOAP and construct co-branded pipeline URLs using simple class methods. REST requests can be sent in parallel to allow for faster script execution.