Amazon EC2 Web Console

This is great! What I’ve been waiting for from Amazon Web Services; Manage Amazon EC2 With New Web-Based AWS Management Console.

My initial reactions are very positive when using the AWS Management Console, the app is clean, stable, easy to use, and useful. I really disliked using the ElasticFox plugin to Firefox and held off on paying the $66 for a Jollat license while anticipating a useful take on GUI AWS management from Amazon.

The app appears to be written on a heavy usage of YUI which is great; YUI is my JavaScript library of choice. The developers of the AWS Management Console have done a great job creating an Ajax GUI that’s using the full power of the YUI library.

I’ve been following Amazon EC2 for quite some time but haven’t decided to start really working with it until, well, this week. Essentially my experience has been frustrating using ElasticFox for a day and rewarding and educational using the AWS Management Console last night.

I look forward to the S3 and SimpleDB components to the Management Console, I suspect I’ll have the same great experience with them too. :-)

Thanks Amazon and the dev team who made the Amazon EC2 Web Console!