To follow up on my post about Amazon Cloud “readiness”, I thought I’d mention that Amazon have announced an initial beta release of their Amazon Web Services Management Console:

We’re excited to announce the initial beta release of our AWS Management Console, a web-based, point-and-click, graphical user interface that makes it even easier to access and manage AWS Infrastructure Web Services. The initial release provides an online interface for Amazon EC2, with additional AWS services scheduled to be added in the coming months.

You can read the full announcement at the AWS blog.

We’ve given it a quick test-drive here and the interface looks good. I think they’ll see a large surge of trial usage which will convert into a tidy chunk of new EC2 customers.

Check out the AWS Management Console here: console.aws.amazon.com. You can also view a screencast of the Console in action.