A handy new graphical tool for working with the Amazon Simple DB service has been announced on the AWS Blog. SDB Tool is a Firefox plugin for querying and updating your Simple DB database domains.
The tool is very functional, if a bit rough around the edges. The interface is a bit intimidating and, on my computer at least, it has a nasty habit of resizing my Firefox browser window when I start it up. However, even at this early stage the plugin provides a straight-forward graphical view into your data that will be very valuable for anyone working with data stored in Simple DB.
Kudos to Bizo, Inc for developing this tool, and releasing it for everyone’s benefit.
SDB Tool Screenshot
I’ve tried the firefox plugin but I prefer bolso http://www.cafesilencio.net/bolso. I think the UI makes it easier to create and test queries. With the firefox plugin I had to refer to the docs to construct a query cause i dont’ have that stuff memorized but with bolso i could just fill in the blank text boxes in the UI and it constructed the syntax for me, and displayed it so i could copy/paste into my code.