Amazon released a web based tool, in addition to their ElasticFox Firefox plugin, that allows AWS EC2 Management.  Other consoles will be added soon.

I have been saying for some time that cloud based offerings with great tools will win out.  Making it simple to setup and manage cloud tools, with tools and hopefully APIs to the tools so that these can be aggreated, will win over hosting clients and be a value add for the cloud providers of today Google App Engine, Amazon AWS, Mosso, Joyent, SliceHost etc.

Today we’re announcing the availability of the Web-based AWS Management Console, which in this first release provides management of your Amazon EC2 environment via a point-and-click interface. A number of management tools already exist: for example a popular Firefox extension known as Elasticfox; however as you read more of this post I believe you’ll agree that the new console is compelling–especially when it’s time to log in as a new AWS developer.

Tags: amazon, ams, cloud, compute, ec2, elastic, elasticfox, manage

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