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by driverdan 5002 days ago
Yes, and everyone should be doing so. For EC2 Amazon provides sample CloudWatch scripts[1] that will report additional metrics, including storage space. All server monitoring tools and services can (and should) watch your disk space.

If you're not monitoring basic problems like disk utilization and RAM you're just asking for unnecessary downtime.

[1]: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/De...