Hyperic service peers into Amazon cloud

Cloud computing is growing in popularity, thanks in large part to the availability of Web-based services that take some of the pain out of IT.

But when things break, it isn't always easy to know why: Is the problem in the application or in the cloud?

CloudStatus works with Amazon Web Services now. Hyperic plans to support additional cloud service providers later this year.

Hyperic, a San Francisco-based company specializing in Web management tools, has one answer. It's launching a new service, called CloudStatus, that reports on the health and performance of Amazon Web Services.

The free service, in beta testing now, works with Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, Simple Storage Service, SimpleDB, Simple Queue Service, and Flexible Payment Service.

The company says that CloudStatus will report on service availability, latency, and data throughput.

Hyperic says it plans to add the capability to monitor other cloud computing services later this summer.

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[botchagalupe]

Taking the Hype out of Hyperic?s new Cloudstatus.

http://www.johnmwillis.com/amazon/taking-the-hype-out-of-hyperics-new-cloudstatus/

[smithj087]

hype... hype... hyperic

hyperic, why not ping www.google.com while your at it?

Please provide real value by detecting incidents of actual customer applications hosted in the cloud.