Amazon EC2 AMI? Roadmap? Feature wishlist?

Any chance this is on the roadmap?

 

 

I understand it would have to be a stripped down version, but I would like to see:

 

 

1) GUI

 

2) Slow start

 

3) Graceful removal of backend nodes

 

4) State mirroring (HA), in active/active configuration (particularly for sticky session configs) (I'd want to use this multi-AZ and perhaps even multi-region.

 

5) iRules

 

6) DevPay instances (IE: No upfront licensing.) (I think now called Amazon marketplace.) As part of this, I think that hourly costs shouldn't more than double the cost of running the EC2 instance it is hosted on. (For it to remain competitive and become popular).

 

7) SSL offload/management

 

8) Variety of instance size support. (Presumably 64bit only.)

 

9) VPC and non-VPC support (VPC supports multiple IP interfaces per instance, so in VPC multiple interfaces would need to be supported... One-arm in non-vpc)

10) Full set of load balancing algorithms

 

 

 

Please feel free to email me directly at brian.gupta@brandorr.com, if you want to discuss further, as I would be willing to help test any alpha/beta AMIs. (And can discuss further, as we've been using AWS for over 4 years.)