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Metrics Available for the Amazon EC2 Platform
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The CloudShare metrics that are available for managing Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) resource quotas reflect information that is made available from Amazon.

The following table provides basic details for each available EC2 metric that is controllable through CloudShare.

For additional information, refer to the Amazon EC2 documentation. You may find the following reference helpful:

CloudShare Metric

Description

CPUs

The highest allowable number of central processing units (CPUs) operating at anytime.

Amazon EC2 uses a virtual CPU (vCPU) concept that represents a thread on a core. CloudShare counts the Default vCPUs for each instance, since this is metric that is billed.

For more information, see Optimizing CPU Options.

CPU credit units

The maximum allowed usage of CPU credit units.

For more information, see CPU Credits and Baseline Utilization.

Disk GB

The highest number of gigabytes (GB) allowed for disk-based storage at anytime.

GPUs

The highest allowable number of graphics processing units (GPUs) at anytime.

For general information, see Recommended GPU Instances.

Instance uptime in seconds

The maximum time (in seconds) that a virtual machine instance will be in operation.

Load balancer rules

The maximum allowed usage of load balancers by the following:

  1. 'Capacity units' sub-metric: The AWS Load Balancer Capacity Units (LCU*) that are used.

  2. 'Up time' sub-metric - The time (in seconds) that a load balancer will be in operation.

For more information, see Elastic Load Balancing.

Memory MB

The highest number of megabytes (MB) allowed for RAM-based storage at anytime.

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