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Whilst this is a much better solution that the existing slow tools Amazon provided, I don't understand why this is being reported as if command-line tools for A

by kondro 13y ago

Whilst this is a much better solution that the existing slow tools Amazon provided, I don't understand why this is being reported as if command-line tools for AWS are a new thing. Command-line tools used to be your only option for managing AWS and Amazon always create their API and shell tools before the Console.

dmourati 13y ago
Yea, not a new thing, even the command names are mostly the same. $ ec2-describe-instances $ aws ec2 describe-instances … Pretty strange decision IMO.
- vacri 13y ago
  It's unifying the commands. Just this morning I've been struggling with ascli (autoscaling cli), which has its own method for listing AWS keys that don't match the way other tools do it.
  - dmourati 13y ago
    Meh, 90% of what I do is ec2 anyway. I did have to break out: cli53 rrcreate.
benologist 13y ago
It's probably 'news' because AWS is at risk of losing mindshare on HN as more competitors target this community - Rackspace just started giving everyone free credit, Linode gave everyone big free upgrades, DigitalOcean are just killing it, and then there's Docker etc threatening to reduce them all to interchangeable dumb infrastructure.
- tekacs 13y ago
  Given the number of major, established services running on AWS that go down perfectly in sync every time there's an AWS outage, it seems unlikely that the service is likely to fall out of most of HN's mindset for quite some time to come. ;) Might lose some favour for new projects, though.