Amazon’s Elastic Beanstalk

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the Elastic Beanstalk beta, a way to automatically handle the deployment details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring. There is no charge for Beanstalk and it is initially meant for those familiar with the Apache Tomcat software stack. Elastic Beanstalk developers retain full control over the AWS resources powering their application and can access the underlying resources at any time. Using the AWS Management Console or an integrated development environment (IDE) such as Eclipse to upload your application Beanstalk deploy your application in minutes  without any infrastructure or resource configuration required.  See this page for AWS service pricing on EC2 instances, S3, SimpleDB or Amazon RDS.

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