Third-Party AWS Solutions
There are a growing number of applications and services based on AWS that offer extra functionality or improved ease of use compared to the standard services. In this listing we concentrate on the third-party solutions that could help you build and manage your own AWS-based applications, or those that provide user-friendly interfaces to the underlying service.
Multiple Services
- ElasticDrive
Makes your S3 storage available as a Linux block device for remote storage or backup, intended primarily to be used in EC2
Platform: Linux
Pricing: Free and fee-based versions
- ELASTRA Infinite Database
Use S3 as a permanent data store for relational databases running on EC2
Platform: Linux
Pricing: Fee-based
- GigaSpaces eXtreme Application Platform
A platform for running stateful applications in EC2 using S3 for storage
Platform: Linux
Pricing: Free (for start-ups) and fee-based versions
- Lifeguard
http://code.google.com/p/lifeguard
A tool for automating management of applications deployed in EC2 that receive work through SQS queues; it will dynamically resize the pool of instances based on the applicationâs performance
Platform: Java program
Pricing: Free (open source)
- NaviSite Monitoring and Alerting
Remote monitoring and alerting services for applications running on EC2 and S3
Platform: Hosted service
Pricing: Fee-based
- PersistentFS
Makes your S3 storage available ...
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