April 2010
2 posts
Shutting down Usage Report!
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UsageReport Downloader for Amazon Web ServicesTM....
UsageReport Downloader for Amazon Web ServicesTM is a simple tool to download all you usage reports with one click.
Instal UsageReport Downloader
The files are download in your documents folder. You can change the default folder. You selection is kept for the next time.
Click the Download XML or Download CSV button to choose which format the report should be downloaded from and off you...
March 2010
7 posts
March 29th - Set back?
Amazon just sent out the following annoucement
Announcement: Announcing Combined AWS Data Transfer Pricing
Dear Amazon EC2 Customer,
Starting April 1, 2010, your Data Transfer Out pricing tier for a given Region will be based on your total Data Transfer Out usage within that region for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon...
March 22nd - online store on the way
11am Again a slow start, I had to fix my car stereo. So what are the major obstacles to release a very limited “beta”…
1) The login into your aws account is not intuitive…so I’ll fix that first.
2) Some of the tools tips of the graph a not readable due to the font of the tool tip. It’s important as the graphs axis legends are not readable either..so at least...
Sneak peek of Usage Report for Amazon Web...
I’ve just posted on my main blog the following Sneak Peek of AwsUsageAnalyzr which is now called Usage Report for Amazon Web Services
Sneak peek of Usage Report for Amazon Web Services™ from daniel wanja.
WatchThe time line of the development of the AWSUsageAnalyzr for far. It’s not complete…but it’s getting there!
March 15th - Dashboard
Taking a break from trying to setup a store. Note I think I have a simple solution underway. So I started on a Dashboard that will show 9 aspects of your Amazon Web Service usage reports. I created 3 graphs at the Airport the other day, add the cumulated price by service this morning. And will now add 2 graphs showing usage of DataTransfer-In-Bytes and DataTransfer-Out-Bytes across services. Due...
EC2 new High-Memory Instances
Amazon just announced the following
“Save up to 35% on your Amazon EC2 Costs with Extra Large High Memory Instances High Memory Extra Large instances are a great new option for customers who are currently leveraging Standard Extra Large instances. High Memory Extra Large instances offer similar processing power and more memory than Standard Extra Large instances at prices that are 25-35%...
March 1st - Slow progress on the store
10:10am Unbelievable, already March. I just counted how many days I worked on this project since November 23rd and it has only been 15 full days of work, but working only on Mondays it feels like an eternity. The last few Mondays I did spend only a few hours as I was working on a side project that now has been released: http://vault.ncaa.com. And next week I’ll be off to two conferences in a...
February 2010
6 posts
February 15th - ToDo's going down!
6:08pm I need to create more pricing structures as I didn’t code region support for S3 and
SimpleDb.SDB regions:
US-East (Northern Virginia) Region,
US-West (Northern California) Region,
EU (Ireland)
RegionSDB metrics:
Machine Utilization (BoxUsage)
Data Transfer In (DataTransfer-In-Bytes)
Date Transfer Out (DataTransfer-Out-Bytes)
Structured Data Storage (TimedStorage-ByteHrs)
...
Versioning Feature for Amazon S3 Now Available
The team at Amazon doesn’t stop adding new cool features to their Amazon Web Services offering. They just announced the availability of the Versioning feature for beta use across all of the Amazon S3 Regions. You can now enable Versioning for a bucket. From there on Amazon S3 preserves existing objects any time you perform a PUT, POST, COPY, or DELETE operation on them. The GET retrieves the...
February 8th - Historical Price
8:22am Today is price history. So basically Amazon regularly offers price change. Some temporary changes like the inbout data transfer that is free to June 30th and more often than not it reduces the price. For example starting February 1st Amazon lowers outbound data transfer pricing by $0.02 across all of our services, in all usage tiers, and in all Regions
The new outbound data transfer...
February 3rd - Incremental Price Calculation...
18:03 Today: adding tests for incremental price calculation. Last Monday I did identify all the places where I need to change my code, so let’s dive right back into.
So for the following price table:
First 1 GB of data transferred out per month is free; thereafter:
$0.170 per GB – first 10 TB / month data transfer out
$0.130 per GB – next 40 TB / month data...
AWS Lowers Outbound Data Transfer Pricing
The new outbound data transfer pricing will be across all of our services, in all usage tiers, and in all Regions:
First 10 TB per Month: $0.15 per GB
Next 40 TB per Month: $0.11 per GB
Next 100 TB per Month: $0.09 per GB
Over 150 TB per Month: $0.08 per GB
These changes are effective February 1, 2010.
What does this mean for AWSUsageAnalyzr. Simple that I will need to...
Feburary 1st - Incremental Price Calculation
18:43 Today was a different Monday as I had several meetings downtown Denver as I start a new cool Flex and maybe Rails project with ThoughtEquity. So I will have to catch up on AweUsageAnalyzr this week.
Last week I’ve added support to parsing usage logs with zone and architectures and this will require that I add these to the low level aggregation so that you can see for example...
January 2010
5 posts
January 25th, EC2 Calculation Improvments
9:07 I just go the email that I can download the private key and certificate to sign the application. I will try this out today. I took several faxes to ChoosenSecurity to prove that AppsDen, LLC is really my company. The issue was that AppsDen belongs to Nouvelles Solutions, Inc (http://n-so.com) which is my consultancy company. Anyhow I received the certificates and this will allow me to code...
January 18th - Auto update, code signing, and...
Good news, I received a free code signing from Adobe. Now I need to fight with Thwate to really get it. The problem is that they want that you prove who your company is and that requires faxing some kind of letter…and just pointing them to my website is not enough. The company is AppsDen, LLC but I don’t have letter heads, credit cards, bank accounts and all that. I’m just coding...
January 11th - Shifting Gears?
I should really start shifting gears and move to a more than once a week development effort. One of the great aspect of a 20% project is that you have way more time to think about it and that proved beneficial to me. Instead of being heads down and sometime loosing a bunch of hours going in the wrong direction, I subconsciously solve many problems and the next Monday when I start back, I often...
January 4th - starting the blog
Welcome to the AwsUsageAnalyzer blog. I just started it today. AwsUsageAnalyzer is a cool tool to analyze your Amazon Web Services (ec2, s3, sdb, rdb, …) usage logs and make sense of them. Nothing to install on the server, it’s a desktop app that connect to aws.amazon.com and downloads your usage logs locally to your own pc. I work about 10 hours a week on this project and plan to have...
January 4th - Billing Periods
Back to if after nice new year transition. I finally got a good feel of what I wanna do between all the projects I am always starting. And this project is exactly it. AwsUsageAnalyzer is the size of project I can deal with. It’s not easy but it’s manageable the other projects where for sure too ambitious. It’s a bummer as we showed we can develop them and solve all the technical...
December 2009
4 posts
December 28th - Pricing, Pricing? To early!
Back to it after a nice Xmas. Today is my 5th day on the project or about 50 hours. So it’s not too bad for the amount of time spent. I have a long todo list, but mostly the core functionality dashboard is getting there. So I estimate about 60 more hours after today to have a good version. That’s doesn’t include having all the amazon price structure with historical data. So...
December 21th - Cumulated Price
Today I should still work on the incremental price as this would allow for a nice visualization of what people pay for over time. Then I should integrate some nice graphics. Arggg…Amazon announced the other day spot pricing where users can buy EC2 based on biding. I don’t know how this will impact AwsUsageTracker. Yea, found the incremental price bug I was chasing since last monday....
December 14th - Login/Logout
Improved the signin and add signout. Signin should just ask for user name password (+token if with token)
Things I should do next:
Add credit card and licensing thing
Add incremental pricing
Add css and make a one pager.
Today I’ll keep “playing” with the code, but I need to make a complete list for version 1.0. Some notes on this product versus the watchthatsite.com,...
December 7th - Automated data download.
Back from Switzerland, physically at least. Didn’t really get started and certainly won’t today. I’m doing some admin stuff, but nothing relevant to the project yet. I’ll play around to see if I can download automatically the usage data…. Yea, got it to download from amazon. Also by checking the last billing period I see a difference of 15 cents…Need to figure...
November 2009
1 post
November 23 - Infancy
You ever wondered how and when you where charged for you Amazon Web Services? Ec2, Rds, Sqs? Which day? When? I didn’t find any tool that does this nicely, there is one webbased but I won’t give my keys out. So let’s see if I can write something in a few hours that prove that I can write such a tool….
Ok, made progress. Loading all xml files and started to aggregate. That...