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Elasticfox vs Jollat
By John | July 11, 2008
I noticed a new AWS tool for managing EC2 and S3 on the AWS blog called Jollat. I did a quick analysis of the differences between Jollat and ElasticFox and here is a quick list of the plus and minus’ of Jollat:
Plus:
- Nice filtering feature for managing images. You can filter by owner, location, and ID. You can also create favorites and filter by your favorites.
- Jollat has an explorer type navigator window which makes it nice for managing multiple AWS accounts.
- Jollat integrates S3 into the interface and seems to have a nice interface for bucket management.
Minus:
- Jollat is $66 dollars vs. Elasticfox being free. Also the Rightscale Dashboard is free and it has many of features of Jollat.
- Jollat is not browser based. This may be a nit but you have to launch Jollat as an application outside of your browser. Maybe I am just use to Easlticfox, but I like having Elasticfox as a Tab on Firefox.
- You cannot copy information from a running instance. This could be a pain. After an instance is started you might need to copy the URL or the instance ID of the running instance. I could not find a way to do this with the Jollet interface.
Bottom Line:
If you do a lot of work with multiple AWS accounts and need to filter between a lot of different EC2 images then the $66 is probably a good investment. However they need to get the copy feature in ASAP.
Topics: amazon, ec2, s3 | 2 Comments »
July 14th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
I tried finding the reference on pricing or licensing detail on the Jollat site.
Where did you got the $66 pricing. I am reluctant to download a piece of software when neither licensing nor “about us” information is available.
July 15th, 2008 at 6:53 am
Good points. They really should say more about who they are and list the price.
After you install it and you start it up you get a message saying you have 30 days) to purchase. Then there is a purchase button.
John