Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2): Amazon’s web-interfaced cloud computing service
Autoscaling Groups: An EC2 feature that enables customizable scaling
Security Groups: Define network settings and firewall on EC2 instances
Elastic Block Store (EBS): Provides block storage to be used with EC2 instances, allows you to choose which file system you want
Simple Cloud Storage Service (S3): Object store, primarily used to store files.
Amazon Machine Image (AMI): Used to create virtual machine within EC2. HySDS uses 4 AMIs.
GRQ
Factotum
Metrics
Mozart
Elastic search: AWS allows you to integrate Elasticsearch in order to store metadata
Debugging
If the autoscaling groups are not working correctly, there is likely a problem with Mozart communication.