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Ever since I saw a demo of this tool, I’ve been on the edge, waiting for it to be opensourced so that I could use it.  The problem its trying to solve is a real pain-point which most webops folks would understand. Yesterday folks at stumbleupon finally opened it up. Its released under LGPLv3 license. You can find the source here and the documentation here . At StumbleUpon, we have found this system tremendously helpful to: Get real-time state information about our infrastructure and services. Understand outages or how complex systems interact together. Measure SLAs (availability, latency, etc.) Tune our applications and databases for maximum performance. Do capacity planning.

  Cloudfront has come a long way from its humble beginnings. Here is what Jeff had to say when he announced that its out of “beta” …. First, we've removed the beta tag from CloudFront and it is now in full production. During the beta period we listened to our customers and added a number of important features including Invalidation , a default root object , HTTPS access , private content , streamed content , private streamed content , AWS Management Console support , request logging , and additional edge locations . We've also r educed our prices . There's now an SLA (Service Level Agreement) for CloudFront. If availability of your content drops below 99.9% in any given month, you can apply for a service credit equal to 10% of your monthly bill. If the availability drops below 99% you can apply for a service credit equal to 25% of your monthly bill. While all this is a big step forward, its probably not enough for the more advanced CDN users to