Setting Up A Worldwide Monitoring Scenario Based On Amazon's Hosting Offer

Cloud computing is a concept of combining software as a service, Web 2.0, virtualization, grid computing, and other IT-trends to give enhanced possibilities for performance and availability of applications. Amazon as a pioneer of cloud computing now offers hosting of virtualized Windows servers on its elastic compute cloud.

Network monitoring specialist Paessler is using Amazon's offer to create an active and reliable distributed monitoring solution using PRTG Network Monitor. Read a short step-by-step guide in Dirk Paessler's blog. Dirk, CEO of Paessler, describes how to set up the account at Amazon and how to create a worldwide ditributed cloud computing monitoring scenario.

The base for the cloud computing monitoring scenario is PRTG Network Monitor, the comprehensive network monitoring solution developed by Paessler. For a lean and simple monitoring scenario even the freeware version of PRTG is sufficient:

Download the freeware
of PRTG Network Monitor

There are different criteria that make the offer of Amazon so interesting for setting up a multi location cloud computing monitoring scenario with PRTG:

  • Cloud computing delivers high performance services.
  • Cloud computing monitoring is extremely reliable by spreading application around hundreds and thousands of different computers/servers.
  • Amazon offers Windows servers based on cloud computing
  • The price for a PRTG probe server on Amazon’s cloud computing offer is only US$ 90. 00 per month.

The monitoring solution created in this way gives Paessler a constant overview of their homepage’s performance all around the world. Thus they can improve the performance targeted for defined regions.

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