EC2Dream is a Free Desktop Admin Client for Amazon EC2, RDS, Eucalyptus or any EC2 API Cloud. It supports "one click" Chef Solo testing and Hosted Chef support. Combine with the Git source control management for a complete open source management environment for EC2 compatible clouds. It is written in Ruby using FXRuby for a cross-platform GUI so it runs on Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. It is easy to modify the code or change features. It is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.

• Multiple environments based on access key, region and keypair.

• Support for resource tags

• A tree view of your servers.

• One click SSH, SCP, and Remote Desktop access.

• Script for one click bundling of an instance.

• One click deregister and delete Image.

• Launch and terminate EC2 and Eucalyptus Servers

• View Server's System log

• Save Launch profile

• Ability to build and run remote scripts.

• Server scripts to provide auto mount of EBS, and synchronisation of dynamic IP address.

• Support for Ruby for Linux Servers.

• Support for Powershell for Windows 2003 Servers

• Security Groups - Create, Delete, Display, Authorize, Revoke

• EBS Volumes - Create, Delete, Display, Attach, Detach

• EBS Snapshots - Create, Delete, Display

• Elastic IPs - Create, Delete, Display, Associate, Disassociate

• Keypairs - Create, Delete

• Images - Register, De Register

• Monitoring Graphs

• Scripts for applications

• Nicknames for EBS and snapshots

• Monitoring Graphs

• Load Balancer - create and configure.

• Auto Scaling.

• Support for Amazon RDS

• Launch and terminate RDS Servers

• DB Snapshots - Create, Delete, Display

• DB Parameters - Create, Delete, Modify

• Modify DB Instance

• View DB Events

• Restore DB from Snapshot and to point in time

• One click access to MySQL Administrator GUI

• Read Replicas

It contains:

Ruby for scripting.

pocketknife for chef solo testing.

For Linux servers there are server scripts in ruby.

For windows servers there are server scripts in powershell.

PuTTY for Windows SSH access.

winSCP for Windows remote file copying.

launchRDP for launching Windows remote desktop.

For more info on using EC2Dream with Amazon EC2 see the Getting Started Guide

For more info on using EC2Dream with Eucalyptus see the Getting Started Guide with Eucalyptus

For more info on using EC2Dream with Amazon RDS see the Getting Started Guide with Amazon RDS

It is simple to install and replaces multiple tools currently required to administer Amazon EC2.

It is the only Graphical System Admin for Eucalyptus that you can install on your client.