Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Elastic Beanstalk

...Amazon Web Services creates new offering -- Platform-as-a-Service...

There is a renewed interest in Platform-as-a-Service since Salesforce.com acquired Heroku and Red Hat acquired Makara, and several startups have acquired significant funding.

Adding to its Elastic Compute Cloud ( EC2 resizable compute capacity) and Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon Web Services is now offering developers a platform out of a box, to simplify the deployment of apps to its core EC2/S3 services.

Developers can provision and manage their AWS app with the Elastic Beanstalk which automatically handling deployment issues such as capacity planning, load balancing, scaling, and monitoring the health of applications. 

Initially targeted at Java developers but Amazon said it will support other programming languages in the future (in public beta Jan. 2011).

Now AWS becomes even easier for developers to build powerful and highly scalable Web applications and encourages wider use of AWS EC2/S3 cloud infrastructure.

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