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Amazon AMI Cloner using SmartGWT and Grails

As what I have posted earlier this month about the Amazon EC2 AMI cloner/migrator. Where it can launch and bundle a new AMI to another EC2 account, here comes it’s basic web interface :).

I’m no expert in Ajax and just luckily found Gooogle Web Toolkit(GWT) and finally the SmartGWT for this application. See sample screen shots using SmartGWT application. A Grails service works to fetch the AMI list, using the same cloner codes. The service generates a page with JSON string which can easily be use for SmartGWT datasource. I’ve learned that for me it’s much easier to get the web interface using SmartGWT and build the services inside grails. So far, I’m having fun and while keeping myself on the edge of these technologies.

Announcing Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances

“Reserved Instances are complementary to existing Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances and give businesses even more flexibility to reduce computing costs. Because Reserved Instances function identically to existing Amazon EC2 On-Demand Instances, you can now plan for an anticipated amount of capacity using Reserved Instances and then instantly spin up On-Demand Instances if your compute needs exceed you reserved capacity. Of course, you can also choose to handle all of your capacity needs using only On-Demand instances or only Reserved Instances — it’s entirely up to you. Reserved Instances are available in 1-year or 3-year terms.”

—The Amazon Web Services Team

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2009/03/announcing-ec2-reserved-instances.html
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/

Really worth it for an on demand application.