Scalr Open Source Framework for managing Amazon EC2
Cloud computing keeps getting more interesting every day. With the open source release of a framework called Scalr you can now have a fully redundant, self-curing and self-scaling hosting environment utilizing Amazon's EC2.
Scalr allows you to create server farms through a web-based interface using prebuilt AMI's for load balancers (pound or nginx), app servers (apache, others), databases (mysql master-slave, others), and a generic AMI to build on top of.
Scalr was developed by Intridea, who describe it thusly: Scalr utilizes EC2 to provide a multi-tiered hosting environment with pre-built images for load balancers, database servers, and application … Read more