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Wow, this console is actually really awesome. It's the first non-command line based tool package that I'll actually be using. I was surprised when they launched

by dcurtis 18y ago

Wow, this console is actually really awesome. It's the first non-command line based tool package that I'll actually be using. I was surprised when they launched AWS that they didn't have something like this in the beginning. The service seems complete now. The learning curve is now reduced to a level where normal people can figure out how to use AWS in under an hour.

thorax 18y ago
If you like this, you probably want to check out Rightscale's free package: http://www.rightscale.com/ http://www.rightscale.com/ It's not as ajaxy, but RightScale's stuff can do a good bit more than Amazon's EC2 dashboard. Honestly, I was hoping Amazon would create something at least as good as free RightScale when I read this-- but it feels a bit worse than what most of us have been using for a good while. This interface does look slick, though-- if they get it caught up in functionality I'd probably use it over RS. The release of this tool might reduce RightScale's valuation a tad since it does kind of indicate that Amazon's not in the market to buy someone like them.
- dcurtis 18y ago
  Rightscale's UI is horrendous. It is so bad that I would rather use the command line tools.
  - thorax 18y ago
    ? Are we seeing the same UI? I'm not the world's biggest fan of the UI, but I've worked with much worse. It's a very deep web app, so it'd be a shame if startups dismiss a free tool because of a comment like that. Maybe I've just been using it for so long that I've gotten used to it? At the time we started using it, it was the only dashboard that interfaced with all of the core AWS services. We happen to use a good bit of SQS and S3, so being able to browse those from time to time has been handy and prevented our team from having to write some of those tools ourselves. Hopefully we'll all win and Amazon will upgrade their tool to have lots more features.

by dcurtis 18y ago

thorax 18y ago

If you like this, you probably want to check out Rightscale's free package: http://www.rightscale.com/ http://www.rightscale.com/ It's not as ajaxy, but RightScale's stuff can do a good bit more than Amazon's EC2 dashboard. Honestly, I was hoping Amazon would create something at least as good as free RightScale when I read this-- but it feels a bit worse than what most of us have been using for a good while. This interface does look slick, though-- if they get it caught up in functionality I'd probably use it over RS. The release of this tool might reduce RightScale's valuation a tad since it does kind of indicate that Amazon's not in the market to buy someone like them.

dcurtis 18y ago
Rightscale's UI is horrendous. It is so bad that I would rather use the command line tools.
- thorax 18y ago
  ? Are we seeing the same UI? I'm not the world's biggest fan of the UI, but I've worked with much worse. It's a very deep web app, so it'd be a shame if startups dismiss a free tool because of a comment like that. Maybe I've just been using it for so long that I've gotten used to it? At the time we started using it, it was the only dashboard that interfaced with all of the core AWS services. We happen to use a good bit of SQS and S3, so being able to browse those from time to time has been handy and prevented our team from having to write some of those tools ourselves. Hopefully we'll all win and Amazon will upgrade their tool to have lots more features.