by mheydt
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January 2009 01:40
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Amazon released the AWS Console about a week ago and I've been using it almost exclusively since instead of ElasticFox. For the most part I think it is better, but at the same time I notice things that are not quite as good. A plus is that it is accessible via any browser and any system, so you can always access your EC2 configurations no matter where or what browser you are running. A negative is that it appears to be slower than ElasticFox, and I have found myself annoyingly having to wait at various times.
One thing I like is that it opens into a dashboard. It's not a whole lot of useful information right now, but it is nice and will allow a nice overview once more features are added.
But if you go to, say the instances form, you'll see the following which isn't a whole lot different than in ElasticFox (and the same for the other forms):
Where this tool will become real interesting is when the offer the following features that they are teasing you with on the overview page:
Administrative interfaces to the other AWS services will be really nice, but I like the potential of tagging as well as the admin, load scaling and monitoring functions will be really nice.
The solution does still need a nice graphical user interface in WPF / Silverlight. I've got it in the works but it is still early. Maybe something there to talk about on the weekend.
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Tags:
AWS | Cloud | EC2