Feeling the pressure from Microsoft’s Windows Azure, Amazon works hard on releasing GUI tools for managing their services. Until now, the only GUI way for managing services were a couple of Firefox plugins - Elasticfox for managing EC2 and S3fFox for organizing S3 and CloudFront. However, Amazon just released, in BETA of course, its brand new AWS Management Console, (using Yahoo’s YUI framework, using JSP in the backend).
The initial release of the AWS Management Console provides a graphical user interface for Amazon EC2, with additional Amazon infrastructure services scheduled to be added to the console in the coming months. You can create Elastic Block Store volumes and assign Elastic IP’s to your instances.
The features planned for the future releases look promising:
- Tagging - Label and group Amazon EC2 resources with your own custom metadata to make it easier to identify and manage your instances, volumes, and other EC2 resources.
- Monitoring, Load Balancing and Auto-scaling - View real-time monitoring of operational metrics within Amazon EC2, configure load balancing and auto-scaling rules through a web-based UI.
- Amazon S3 Support - Create and delete Amazon S3 buckets, upload and download objects through your browser, edit permissions, set log data, and manage URLs.
- Amazon SimpleDB Support - Construct SimpleDB queries through a point-and-click query expression builder and explore your data through a graphical dataset viewer.
- Amazon SQS Support - Manage your SQS queues, add and retrieve messages from you queues, test and build your applications with help from the AWS Management Console.
- CloudFront Support - Setup and administer content delivery distributions on Amazon CloudFront using a simple web-based tool on the AWS Management Console.
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