Amazon Web Services announced recently that the Web-based AWS Management Console is released providing easy-management of Amazon EC2 environment. Users can now use the environment via a point-and-click interface. It’s an easier way to gain access, where the console provides you entry through your Amazon user-ID/password.
You can forget about Firefox’s popular extension Elasticfox because the EC2 environment is a far more quicker and accessible method. The console features carry:
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AMI Management: browse and search AMIs, launch instances from AMIs, deregister and register AMIs.
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Instance Management: launch, reboot, terminate, get console output, RDP/SSH help, etc.
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Security Group Management: create and delete security groups, add and remove permissions, configure firewall settings, open and close ports.
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Elastic IP Management: create and release IP Addresses, associate IPs to instances.
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Elastic Block Store: create, delete, attach and detach volumes. Take snapshots and manage snapshots.
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Key Pair management: create and delete public/private key pairs.
As an AWS customer, I feel heartened by this investment on Amazon’s part because it emphasizes their commitment to commoditize AWS and make its services widely usable. The AWS services will become cheaper as usage ramps up on the commoditization curve.
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