Tagging Support

2011/09/21

One lesson of the EC2/Scalarium outage was that we need to make it easier to manually interact with the instances. If Scalarium has a problem you should still be able to manage your instances.

Today we released tagging support that makes exactly this a lot simpler.

We now tag every instance. If you look at your instances on the AWS console, you can immediately tell which instance is which.

Tags on the AWS console

When you boot an instance, Scalarium will tag the cloud, instance name and instance roles on EC2. All existing instances have been tagged too.