danoprey

Nice to see a lawsuit on here that I don't object to, for once.

Is that a big issue? I don't use the UI for switching workspaces, just ctrl-alt-arrow key. Works perfectly and faster than clicking.

MadeiraCloud (BEIJING, FULLTIME, DEVELOPERS)

MadeiraCloud are a venture backed (announcement coming soon) startup creating a better way to manage and visualise cloud infrastructure. We created the world's first drag and drop GUI for designing distributed architecture, with a single click to provision to AWS. We launched in a Show HN earlier this year and aim to come out of of beta by the end of the year.

We need front-end and back-end developers and are considering US based marketers too.

Get in touch -> dan@mc2.io

Live is a bit of a stretch, could see it being useful for some situations, though.

Hahaha. What did the friends get?

Asking my wife what I do is still a source of amusement.

Great, thanks a lot, following up via email.

This looks really, really interesting. What kind of stage of companies are you aiming for? Is relocation a must?

And how big an influence should it have?

The way I look at it, all investors in the same round should pay the same value, but that's not neccesarily in just dollars. If one firm has a lot of added value and another is dumb money, why should they get the same price?

If you look at it another way, if they are the same firms offering the same deals (at different prices) but instead of joining together in a round, they are competing, surely you would recognise the added value. Why not in a joint round?

Agreed. The only resize effect 99.9% of users will see is turning their mobile device from portrait to landscape, which would still give a cool effect on this site.

Agreed, every step in this could be an article in itself, but the intention was just to give an overview of all the options.

Have a try, no credit card or AWS credentials required ;-)

We're still in early days but we did a Show HN a little while ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3808031

Well said! Often the right thing to do in an outage is "wait it out".

Completely true, there's a lot to be written on the subject and there are some great detailed posts out there.

I think Google Compute Engine does exactly that, with a direct connection between regions so the entire system works as one network. I'm not sure if that will be the case outside the US, though.

Hi Loic. I agree, only meant to serve as an introduction to the subject for people who are not familiar with it, which seems to be way too many people.

Only if you design your application to be. A region (in this case US-East) has multiple Availability Zones (almost entirely separate datacenters). Amazon reports that a single Availability Zone went down, so if you only used that one zone, so did your app.

New? Hasn't this been around for months?

I already commented on the post, but our startup (http://www.madeiracloud.com/) is a tool to manage IaaS visually.

I'm working on http://www.madeiracloud.com/ a tool to visually build, manage and monitor your architecture on the public cloud.

In public beta at the moment, anyone can sign up free in just a minute. Still early days, so any feedback can help shape our direction.

It's much worse, in my opinion, nothing beats a straight stream.

Don't know if it's the same definition, but their GigaOM post defines light as: “light” AWS users — those with fewer than 8 instances http://gigaom.com/cloud/newvem-pulls-back-the-curtain-on-ama...

Obviously it wouldn't make sense for people who only use micro instances, but then again people who only use one micro instance don't use a third party cost management tool.

What's the advantage over using the middle mouse button?

We are implementing this suggestion at the moment, thanks a lot for the fantastic feedback.

Haha. Well I am the designer of the www, my and ide site, and whilst I like Heroku's site, I don't "sweat it hard"!

But seriously, thanks for this, I thought beyond the dark colour scheme and (very different shades of) purple there wasn't much more similarity. Next time I'm doing some redesigning I'll try and move it a bit further away.

Thanks for the compliments too.

That's a good idea, although it would limit the features to just being a diagramming tool, but at least they can take a look. Really good suggestion, will give it some consideration, thanks.

Aha.. I see, great point, thank you. You are right, that definitely needs changing. You should still be able to reset your password, but obviously that's a pretty poor process. I'll look in to changing that right away, thanks again.

Sorry, I tried to get a balance between showing what we currently support and what we are working towards on the homepage, not sure if I got it right.

RDS support is coming soon (approximately one month) and ELB support to be added shortly after that. AutoScaling and Availability Zones are both high priority, but we have very limited resources and I can't commit to a timeframe at the moment.

Thanks for creating IAM credentials and trying us out. If you have any suggestions on how to improved credential handling, please let me know.

Thanks for the feedback. Can I ask what you would suggest as an alternative for people wanting to try the product? Our app is useless without access to the AWS APIs, and although IAM credentials could be created (as people below have), for the app to be fully functional it would require near full access permissions anyway.

We definitely need to give more before users have to enter their credentials, like a tutorial and demo video which are in the works, but as far as actually using the product, I don't see a way around it.

As noted below, this is actually very common. RightScale, Scalr, OpDemand, NewVem, and all other AWS third party tools require this information.

Not trying to say you are wrong, you're not, it's rightfully a big concern for people, but unless AWS change the way their APIs work, what are we supposed to do?

Thanks for the honest criticism. I mostly agree and a video demo is in the works, although a full dummy demo would divert considerable resources away from developing the product at this stage.