New IPhone Apps Let You Control Amazon Cloud Services
Amazon Web Services customers will soon have a pair of options for managing their systems from an Apple iPhone.
Ylastic, which makes a browser-based management dashboard for EC2 and other AWS services, released a version for the iPhone and Google's Android platform this week. The company is charging US$10 per user per month for the mobile application.
It can be used to manage EC2 instances, Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets and SimpleDB domains, among other capabilities, but leaves out some features found in Ylastic's Web-based application, such as daily S3 stats and user management.
Meanwhile, an EC2 management app for the iPhone is now in development at the Rochester, New York, application development firm Directthought.
The company is hoping to have the application, directEC2, ready for sale on Apple's App Store within a month, said senior software architect David Kavanagh.
The company believes there's a ready market for directEC2.
While it's not uncommon for IT staff who are responsible for a Web application to have some monitoring and alerts pushed to their mobile device, enabling them to go ahead and make system changes as well is "pretty powerful," Kavanagh said.
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