We’re evaluating using Amazon’s EC2 (Elastic Computing Cloud) to fire off full instances of our system for both dev and QA. That involves multiple servers and databases, it’s a non trivial task. I think RightScale is a great service which we’ll probably use if we move forward but at this point during testing and discovery I decided to muck around at a lower level. RightScale provides a very nice Ruby library to access AWS services.
So I wrote a simple ruby script that tracks changes in aws assets. Stuck it in a cron job and it notifies me by e-mail whenever there’s a change on our account. [click to continue…]
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