ElasticFox: Firefox plugin for managing EC2 instances

31 December 2007

I’ve been searching blogs with Google’s Blog Search in order to see how other people are using Amazon’s EC2 service. I’m typically able to find only a few echoes of press releases and such, and have seen many “important industry heads” go on and on about how revolutionary it is, what it means for Amazon’s business model, blah blah blah. But, today, I finally (!) found something of use/importance/interest.

I found this blog post, which mentions a new Open Source effort by Amazon to allow users to control/manipulate their EC2 instances via a FireFox plugin. At first I thought it was an odd design choice - controlling a virtual machine with a browser-specific application - but I decided that it’s really, really cool. I would rather have a GUI-based Java command-and-control application, but this is good enough for what I need.

For more information, and to download the plugin, go to Amazon’s Web Services Developer Connection.

Tags: aws, Computing, ec2, Work

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