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Re:Amazon Announces Free Monitoring for Amazon EC2 Instances by nlco on Friday December 03, 2010 @04:05AM (#1965248)
perhaps they are trying to counteract the inevitable backlash from the wikileaks story?
Re:Amazon Announces Free Monitoring for Amazon EC2 Instances by MrRumblefish on Friday December 03, 2010 @04:10AM (#1965254)
Somehow I doubt they had this plan "on standby" in case of some controversy.

On topic - This combined with the free year of a micro instance will allow you to put a proof of concept together for only the cost of your time.

Re:Amazon Announces Free Monitoring for Amazon EC2 Instances by troels on Friday December 03, 2010 @05:59AM (#1965403)
Strictly speaking, the monitoring isn't essential to put a proof of concept together. It's nice, yes, but not essential.