Comments on: Windows in the cloud – First impressions of Amazon EC2 – Part 1: Installation

By: Todd Mera

Todd Mera — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:21:34 +0000

They just released a beta of their AWS Web Management Console.
http://media.amazonwebservices.com/console/AwsConsole.html

By: Ervaringen met Windows in Amazon’s cloud « EarlyBert

Ervaringen met Windows in Amazon’s cloud « EarlyBert — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:37:39 +0000

[...] deel 1 beschrijft hij het aanmelden en installeren van de server. Deel 2 beschrijft zijn ervaringen over [...]

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:23:31 +0000

Jon, thanks a lot for the hint. It seems that Elasticfox only supports basic EC2 management though. Nevertheless, launching new instances is probably more convenient. Perhaps there will be more powerful management tools from third parties in the future.

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:28:43 +0000

There’s a firefox extension called Elasticfox which can be used to setup and manage all of this for you. I was able to get a Windows / SQL setup installed fairly quickly.

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 14:30:14 +0000

Christopher, I think Amazon’s coders are Linux geeks. That explains the fact that they prefer a CLI. I somehow think it will be difficult this way to attract Windows admins. I guess Microsoft’s user interface will look different once they enter this market.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:00:44 +0000

It’s good to hear of your experience with this. It sure sounds like they could have accomplished the setup tasks with a simple web interface. That’s what happens when you let coders design an interface.