The AWS Console Didn't Always Look Like This

If you've been using AWS for 20 years then you've surely seen many differences in how the console has taken shape. Even if you've not been using AWS that long you've surely seen some changes in the past 1-5 years. AWS launched publicly back in 2006 with just S3 in March and EC2 in August. There was no console. No GUI. You were writing API calls or using CLI tools and that was just how it was. The fact that we went from that to what we have today is kind of wild. Let's take a look at the console over its various phases in celebration of AWS' birthday! ElasticFox Extension for EC2 A long time ago there was not an AWS console but instead a  Firefox extension known as Elasticfox . It allowed you to manage your AWS EC2 resources from a web interface. So picture this. It's the mid-2000s, and you want to launch an EC2 instance. There's no web console. You're either writing raw API calls or using command line tools. ElasticFox changed that by giving developers a visual way to launch instances,