AWS Manager Introduction
AWS Manager was created in June, 2008. At this time, the author was a participant in the EBS alpha testing program and there were no consoles available to support EBS. Instead of typing EBS volume and snapshot commands on the command line, AWS Manager was created to save time during the testing process.
AWS Manager was further developed to support the full features of AWS and continues to be supported as new features become available, for example, supporting both the EU and US regions. Other excellent consoles include: the AWS Management Console from Amazon, the Rightscale console, and the Ylastic Dashboard.
AWS Manager is the only console (as far as we know) for which the software is available as a WAR file which can be deployed in a web application archive (WAR) file. Providing the application as a WAR file allows anyone to deploy the software into a web application environment such as Glassfish or Apache Tomcat environment.
In the near future, the full source code will be made available.
Features
- Support for both EU and US regions.
- Object metadata stored in Simple DB.
- Multi AWS account support.
- Advanced sorting and filtering.
- Ability to perform batch operations such as attaching more than one volume at a time.
- Software available as a WAR file for local deployments.
- Source code coming soon.