# \[ANN\] Ylastic is now live! **URL:** \ **Category:** Deployment\ **Created:** [August 18, 2008, 4:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-ylastic-is-now-live/146161 "2008-08-18T16:40:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ylastic\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/f08c70/32.png) [@Ylastic\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ylastic_T)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 4:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-ylastic-is-now-live/146161/1 "2008-08-18T16:40:07Z")
We are excited to announce that Ylastic is now live. Ylastic makes it easier and simpler to use the Amazon Web Services environment for individual and business users by providing an intuitive and powerful user interface for managing S3, EC2, SQS and SimpleDB, along with monitoring, alerts, reporting, and other goodies. You can view the complete list of features, our roadmap, pricing information and screencasts on our updated website. Check out the buzz and come join the Ylastic community ! thanks the Ylastic team > **[Ylastic - Global CloudOps Console for AWS](https://ylastic.com/)** > > Global CloudOps console to manage, govern, diagram and schedule your AWS resources ---
**Author:** ![Ylastic\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/f08c70/32.png) [@Ylastic\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ylastic_T)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 4:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-ylastic-is-now-live/146161/2 "2008-08-21T16:54:44Z")
This is interesting as well. Not quite the fully managed cloud we were thinking of for cloudease but it seems like a good set of tools. On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 5:35 AM, Ylastic T. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > thanks > the Ylastic team > [http://ylastic.com](http://ylastic.com) > > > – Joe C. President > **[RailsPlayground.com Ruby On Rails Hosting](https://railsplayground.com)** > > Ruby on Rails Web Hosting starting at just $5/a month 1-800-603-4125 ---
**Author:** ![Ylastic\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/f08c70/32.png) [@Ylastic\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ylastic_T)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2008, 11:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-ylastic-is-now-live/146161/3 "2008-08-23T11:15:50Z")
Ylastic T. wrote: > We are excited to announce that Ylastic is now live. Ylastic makes it > easier and simpler to use the Amazon Web Services environment for > individual and business users by providing an intuitive and powerful > user interface for managing S3, EC2, SQS and SimpleDB, along with > monitoring, alerts, reporting, and other goodies. > > You can view the complete list of features, our roadmap, pricing > information and screencasts on our updated website. Check out the buzz > and come join the Ylastic community ! > > thanks > the Ylastic team > [http://ylastic.com](http://ylastic.com) I am interested in this service. However, the website’s fade-in effect is _extremely_ annoying. On the front page, I have to wait 10 seconds before the icons and the navigation bar fade in. Why not present everything immediately? I know fade-in looks cool and all but it’s really bad usability. This really screwed up my first impression of Ylastic. The fact that I even bothered writing this complaint is because I happen to be browsing Ruby-Forum while being logged in. Otherwise I wouldn’t even have taken the time to do this. It wouldn’t surprise me if a lot of other visitors immediately closed their browser because the pages take such a long time to fade in. ---
**Author:** ![Ylastic\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/f08c70/32.png) [@Ylastic\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ylastic_T)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2008, 4:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-ylastic-is-now-live/146161/4 "2008-08-26T16:33:40Z")
Since you chose to SPAM us with a commercial advertisement that isn’t on topic, I chose to critique your post, site and program. – Your company’s inability to get your site to load in Internet Explorer without a warning message does not inspire enthusiasm in customers that you can handle API programming. Your IE8 warning shows up for other IE versions as well. – Most people who can understand your jargon filled, overly wordy sales pitch probably don’t need your service. You need to explain what it is you can do in basic terms, don’t go for details off the bat. You need to move the basic explanation finally found on your About US page to the front page and can the flashy graphics for a bit. Explain yourself. – Most people you want to sign up may understand they want Amazon Web Services, but you are going to have to explain those services to them to get them to bite on your plan to help them take advantage of them. Explain the acronyms, don’t assume the businessperson reading your site to make the decision to sign up, knows the acronyms a programmer knows. And again, even the programmers just getting started in AWS doesn’t know all the acronyms and shorthand of AWs, if they did, they wouldn’t need your help. – If you are expecting us to appreciate your “Buzz” endorsements, you really need to give people time to read them. A six sentence paragraph takes more than five seconds to read. No obvious way to stop your auto-scroll. – Your main page is confusing and hurts the eyes (purple menu and off-yellow background). Seeing your big brown tab display, people think your big brown subject tabs should take them to an explanation of the topic they announce, they don’t, no linkage. Your “Architect-Launch-Monitor-Report” theme goes nowhere, you never follow up and explain how you do those things and certainly not on the page you display them. HH