drawcloud - cloud tracking, service and product development » compute http://cloud.drawcode.com Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:13:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Manage Amazon EC2 With New Web-Based AWS Management Console http://cloud.drawcode.com/2009/01/09/manage-amazon-ec2-with-new-web-based-aws-management-console/ http://cloud.drawcode.com/2009/01/09/manage-amazon-ec2-with-new-web-based-aws-management-console/#comments Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:48:35 +0000 drawk http://cloud.drawcode.com/?p=40 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.

]]> http://cloud.drawcode.com/2009/01/09/manage-amazon-ec2-with-new-web-based-aws-management-console/feed/ 1 Amazon EC2 Officially Live http://cloud.drawcode.com/2008/10/23/amazon-ec2-officially-live/ http://cloud.drawcode.com/2008/10/23/amazon-ec2-officially-live/#comments Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:35:55 +0000 drawk http://cloud.drawcode.com/?p=38 Amazon EC2 is officially out of beta, it is about time some of these services actually launched.  It is hard to convince people to use the cloud layer without being out of beta (AppEngine when’s it gonna happen huh?).

Amazon also launches with windows support, SQL Server support and much more.  This is great news in times where budgets are tight and people want to start scalable businesses but want to only pay for what is used.  The cloud layer will be a very attractive option to many.

Learn more about the Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) at Amazon. There are already lots of great simple toos like ElasticFox (Firefox EC2 Extension) to help manage your AMIs from a browser.  You can start and stop armies of configured servers from a little extension in your browser.

Developers are getting many tools to build great things.  We hope more products are out of beta soon like AppEngine.

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