Amazon EC2 Monitor

Owned by Charles Bishop (Deactivated)
Jan 30, 2018
1 min read

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The Amazon EC2 Monitor application can be used to retrieve a current list of your Amazon EC2 instances.

  • Gives you feedback about how many and what type of instances are running.
  • Gives you a quick comparison of all the instances running.
  • Tells you how long each of the instances have been running.
  • Gives a rough price-calculation of the currently running instances.
  • Shows a distribution chart of the different instances running.


Connection and Import

The data is gathered from Amazon via the "Amazon EC2" connection. The app uses the connector in order to create two import jobs to analyze data. The first import job looks at the focuses on information on the instances and the second focuses on the costs of the instances.

Workbook

The Amazon EC2 Monitor app uses both import jobs made during the import phase of the app to bring the data into a single workbook. An extension worksheet of both import jobs is made and a common key is created using the name, type, and zone of each instance. With a join key created the data from both import jobs can be used together in order to preform the apps calculations.