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Skydera: impressive feature-set for managing multiple cloud systems

Skydera provides a power interface to control Amazon EC2, Rackspace, GoGrid and Slicehost. The systems lets you manage one’s entire cloud infrastructure with powerful tools such as monitoring, provisioning, log management, and the automation of common tasks.

After using the system, I can indeed confirm the existence of many pretty charts, graphs, bells, whistles, and more.  It is apparent the service really shines when one has many instances to manage: Skydera has features to automate instance setup, includes a library of trusted images, handles all monitoring, and reduces the chorework that is often associated with managing multiple server instances.  

Skydera launched as beta on July 19, 2010 and based on the buzz, appears to be quite worthy of some serious pimping.

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