Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud or EC2 is a web service offered by Amazon Web Services under the category Compute. Amazon EC2 offers an on demand, robust, secure, and scalable cloud computes platform with a choice of storage, OS, networking, etc. It can be bundled together to fulfill the compute requirements of its end customers.
While the ease of scalability makes it easier for the users to handle on demand requirements, it also imposes a challenge towards monitoring the scale of the environment which, when unchecked can lead to going over budget and bill-shock.
The RayVentory Data Hub connector for EC2 provides a solution for a scheduled inventory of EC2 instances and their attributes. The data gathered can then be depicted in user defined reports and can further be distributed as notification to the target user/user group.
The RayVentory Data Hubconnector for EC2 fetches information about all instances hosted at the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). The connector uses the AWS Java SDK 2.
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Be aware: The underlying AWS Java SDK behaves strangely with proxies. Only the system parameter 'http.proxyHost' and 'http.proxyPort' are used for both HTTP and HTTPS connections. Setting 'https.proxyHost' and 'https.proxyPort' will have no effect. Socks proxies are not supported by the AWS Java SDK. Setting 'socksProxyHost' and 'socksProxyPort' will have no effect. |
Overview of a typical system and network setup:
