I found the AWS Console as facile as Elastic Fox. Both are equally capable, and selecting one over the other is largely a matter of personal taste (and choice of browser). Selecting the Console over the command-line tools is a no-brainer, and this illuminates the significance of the AWS Console: It supersimplifies entry into EC2 computing. Further, it provides 90 percent of what you need for deploying cloud machines. Once you have an AMI instance configured and running, much of your interaction is with facilities on the instance itself. All you need is a console that maintains an inventory of your AMIs, and that makes it easy to deploy them. You can take it from there.