Agile Qloudwatch Development update (AWS budgets and more)

So I thought I’d give you an update on Qloudwatch. Qloudwatch is going to be the easy-to-use web service that allows you to get insights on your Amazon Web Services cloud usage, group your instances into project and set budgets and warnings for AWS instance costs.

We’ve been working really hard the past few weeks to get ready for a first public release. Bob is busy thinking about an honest and functional business model and researching our terms of service and I’m crunching feature development, tweaking, adding even better security.

What we’re currently looking at releasing in our first launch is the following:

• Create projects and give other people access so you can collaborate on a cloud project. Multiple users with different AWS accounts can be added to a project so you can share costs and get a good overview what your application or cloud team is using, spanning possibly multiple AWS account.
• Adding instances to project by accessing the AWS API with your AWS credentials. Yes, we do ask you to enter them into your account for now. Because of this, we’ve implemented SSL security and encryption into our database. Even in our demo period you can test right now at http://qloudwatch.com
• Give you total and monthly cost estimates based on the running hours of the instances in a project.
• A personal dashboard where you can get insights in the instances your personal AWS account is running.

We’re going to rapidly develop more statistics and are going to build in ways to collect better usage data from your instances if you choose to. If you want to influence our priorities, please give us some feedback of what statistics and overviews you would like to see first.

Here are some more sneak preview screenshots: