Amazon Launches Web Services Console

I just received an email this morning from amazon announcing their new web-based console, which can be accessed at http://console.aws.amazon.com. My biggest concern around AWS has been the tooling. I've used the command line, and Chris Richardson had pointed me to an alternate set of tools by Tim Kay, but the problem for me was just how slow or cryptic the tools were to work with.

Amazon has been working on a new console, and I'm pretty impressed so far. You can create instances in seconds (sorry, credit card), launch 'quick starts' of various platforms, associate elastic IPs, etc... I am currently playing around with the Volumes, but can't figure out how to get them to mount inside of my instance (sure it's a newbie problem).

Looks like a good start, and really something that should drive more adoption of this platform.