Andras wrote to tell me about Jollat, a new graphical cross-platform (Windows, Mac, and Linux) management client for Amazon EC2 and S3. Available for free download (with a purchase option), the client includes a number of interesting features.
On the S3 side, Jollat handles bucket creation in both the US and EU zones, upload and download of multiple files, log file configuration and management, and an access control list (ACL) editor.
On the EC2 side, Jollat's image manager makes it easy to find and launch any AMI (Amazon Machine Image). Once launched, instances can be accessed using an embedded SSH client. The tool also manages availability zones, IP addresses, and key pairs.
You can see Jollat in action by watching the video.
-- Jeff;
The Linux version of this application is really buggy. Definitely not ready for production use.
Posted by: nanreh | July 12, 2008 at 06:46 PM
However the download is for free, it can't be used without purchasing a license. Purchasing is not optional, but required for using the application.
Posted by: Peter Smit | July 14, 2008 at 12:02 AM
Nanreh: Could you please contact us about the bug(s) you've found? Please submit it/them at our support page, so we can look into them.
Thanks,
Andy
Jollat Team
Posted by: Andy | July 15, 2008 at 01:46 AM
Fyi...
I downloaded and tested out Jollat. I did a quick review here:
http://www.johnmwillis.com/amazon/elasticfox-vs-jollat/
IMHO, It looks pretty cool; however, they really should be more up front about the cost ($66) and the license type.
John
Posted by: botchagalupe | July 16, 2008 at 04:47 PM
botchagalupe: We have Jollat marked as shareware (some display the price also) at every download site. We've just updated the website, so it's clear for everyone.
Posted by: Andy | July 18, 2008 at 06:49 AM
After my post above I received a response from the Jollat developers with a new Linux build. I had explained the issues I had when I originally downloaded and tried Jollat and I'm happy to report that the issues have been resolved. I'm impressed with the response--it was unexpected and an active development team that cares always counts heavily in favor of a product I'm evaluating.
I've been using Jollat for a few days now to manage EC2 instances and S3 data and it's pretty smooth. Definitely feels more responsive than the Firefox plugins I've been using and it exposes all of the same features of the AWS API I've been using daily.
Nice work, and thanks again for your quick response!
Posted by: nanreh | July 18, 2008 at 09:35 AM