Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a Web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It allows you to upload VM images and run them within the host provider.
Operations Center integrates with Amazon EC2 to allow you to monitor and manage the following objects:
Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)
Instances
Elastic block volumes
Snapshots
Elastic IPs
Use the Amazon EC2 adapter to:
View the relationships between Amazon EC2 objects. For example, all instances launched from a particular AMI show the instances as children under the AMI.
Click on any instance to view the AMI from where it was launched.
Launch on demand instances and attach EBS volumes to instances.
Monitor an instance’s CPU utilization and other performance metrics from the Operations Center console. Note that monitoring must be turned on.
NOTE:Launching instances and starting instances from the Amazon EC2 adapter incurs charges against your AWS account.
Operations Center supports the launching of the following Amazon EC2 instance types: Large (m1.large), Extra Large(x1.xlarge), High-Memory Extra Large (m2.xlarge), High-Memory Double Extra Large (m2.2xlarge), High-Memory Quadruple Extra Large (m2.4xlarge), and High-CPU Extra Large (c1.xlarge).
To integrate Amazon EC2:
Create an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud adapter.
For instructions, see Section 2.1, Creating an Adapter.
Modify the adapter properties.
For instructions, see Section A.1, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).