We are building the world’s first mobile interface for AWS on the iPhone. You will be able to do several of the things that you currently do from the Ylastic web interface. It will NOT be an exact clone of the main interface, as some things just don’t make sense from a mobile user standpoint. We want it to be super simple to use and give you the ability to interact with your AWS environment while you are on the go. The UI might change a bit before it goes into production, but here are some teaser screenshots from the version currently in development, showing the dashboard, service health, EC2, S3 and SQS overview pages !

Coming soon to that iPhone in your pocket

AWS is planning on introducing some great features next year - load balancing, monitoring and auto scaling. This is fantastic news for Ylastic as we no longer have to build our own solutions to these and bundle it into our framework. We plan to take full advantage of these features using the API that will be provided by AWS and build other value added services on top to make them even better. AWS is also planning to introduce a management console for configuring all of the above stuff. Details are a bit sketchy right now as to what the console will do, but it will still do some or most of the things that we currently do. Ylastic will differentiate/complement the AWS management console by providing additional features, and we will detail those features and discuss them once things start crystallizing on this front. We are busy finishing up our iPhone management interface to AWS which is attracting buzz and interest. We are also going to beef up our mobile support with a corresponding app for Android. Tools and utilities to enhance your experience while running Windows on EC2 are also in the works. We have updated our roadmap. So lots of great stuff coming up. Its time to strap those seat belts on and blast off into the cloud !!

John Nousis is hosting an AWS meetup in Athens next week. Topics of discussion include startups, AWS and third party management tools including Ylastic.

The Yahoo User Interface (YUI) Blog just published the latest installment of their implementation focus series, which features Ylastic. Check it out

You can follow Ylastic on twitter to get updates on AWS service status, latest Ylastic news and other interesting AWS cloud related happenings.

If you are in the Atlanta area, come check out the Ylastic presentation at the AWSome Atlanta cloud computing meetup being held at the Georgia Tech ATDC tonight.

Aral Balkan has a great analysis on GAE and some of the critical things that are missing from it. Read his post and you will see some of the reasons why the building blocks provided by AWS are so cool and are THE way to build web scale apps in the cloud.

AWS has just announced support for using Windows Server as the OS for EC2 images and provide some ready to go AMIs. It seems to take a little bit longer for the windows instances to be up and running when compared to linux ones. AWS dev team has done a great job and made it real easy to use Windows on EC2. We have a new screencast showing how to launch and connect to a windows instance using Ylastic.

John Willis discusses Ylastic with Prabhakar on the latest installment of the Cloud Cafe Podcast, a series that puts the spotlight on different companies, viewpoints and technologies in the cloud computing space.

Ylastic is mentioned in the featured solutions section of the latest version of the AWS Monthly Dev Newsletter.