CloudStatus.com - Looking into Amazon's Cloud

Cloud computing is becoming ever more popular especially as more web services have cropped up making tech simpler to handle. CloudStatus from Hyperic monitors cloud services from Amazon, providing insight into overall performance. As things presently stand, it’s often difficult to tell if a malfunction has to do with the application or the cloud itself—CloudStatus will let you know the answer quickly. It works in real time, giving you a glimpse into the infrastructure metrics that may affect applications. You can also drill down to specific details on any of the monitored services. Currently, the service which is in beta testing is available for Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, SimpleDB, Flexible Payment Service, Queue Service, and Simple Storage Service. Hyperic will expand to incorporate other cloud computing services later this year.

“Cloud computing is the biggest technology shift in the market today, and Hyperic's CloudStatus BETA is the first service to provide an independent view into the health and performance of the most popular cloud services on the web. This new service provides businesses utilizing the cloud critical perspectives needed to determine the cause of performance changes in their cloud-based web applications.”

Hyperic’s CloudStatus is a powerful and handy tool to have around. It could save users a lot of time and energy; rather than having to puzzle over what’s wrong, CloudStatus gets to the root of the problem quickly.

How accurate is Cloudstatus? Will we see paid versions coming soon?