Custom scripts and tools often present challenges for DevOps professionals in terms of scalability, sharing, and maintenance, especially as infrastructure complexity and team size increase. This blog post discusses using Retool to create custom admin panels that streamline DevOps processes, specifically managing Amazon EC2 virtual servers. By leveraging Retool's drag-and-drop interface and built-in integrations, users can simplify tasks such as launching, starting, stopping, and checking the status of EC2 instances. The post provides a step-by-step guide on setting up Retool to interface with the Amazon EC2 API, transforming data for better readability, and creating a user-friendly interface, complete with features like instance state color-coding and image selection from a listbox. The guide concludes by encouraging readers to explore Retool's capabilities for building custom admin panels, offering a JSON file to jumpstart their projects.