DirectThought, a New York Based company, is working on a native iPhone application, named directEC2 to access and control Amazon’s EC2. You’ll be able to keep tabs on your EC2 resource (instances, volumes, etc.) using this application running on your iPhone. Because it is a native application, it doesn’t rely on any other server. All you rely on are your iPhone, Amazon’s servers and your internet connection. This application is under development and has been tested on the iPhone and iPod touch.

This application uses a toolkit called cTypica which is an Objective-C version of the popular typica Java toolkit for AWS. This will be released under the Apache 2.0 License to enable others to gain access to Amazon’s service from their own iPhone applications.

There’s no indication when the application will be released.

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