Category: AWS Elastic Beanstalk

I’m very pleased to invite you all to join the AWS team in London, for our first Tech Summit of 2011. We’ll take a quick, high level tour of the Amazon Web Services cloud platform before diving into the technical detail of how to build highly available, fault tolerant systems, host databases and deploy Java applications […]

AWS Elastic Beanstalk manages your web application via Java, Tomcat and the Amazon cloud infrastructure. This means that in addition to Java, Elastic Beanstalk can host applications developed with languages compatible with the Java VM. This includes tools such as Clojure, Scala and JRuby – in this post we start to think out of the […]

I’ve been looking forward to being able to tell you about this new part of AWS for quite a while. Perhaps I’m biased, but I do think that this is a pretty big deal! I think we’ve managed to balance power and ease of use in a nice tidy package that will make AWS even […]

The default configuration settings for your AWS Elastic Beanstalk application were chosen to work well under a wide variety of conditions. However, rest assured that you have the ability to view and to edit the settings as you’d like if and when you decide to “open the hood” (so to speak). You can do all […]

You can create, test, debug, and deploy an AWS Elastic Beanstalk application from within the comfort of the Eclipse IDE. The newest version of the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse includes a brand-new plug-in that lets you deploy Java web applications to Elastic Beanstalk from within Eclipse. This toolkit includes the AWS SDK for Java along […]

The AWS Management Console includes support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk. If you already have a Java WAR file that you want to use to try out Elastic Beanstalk, you can do so through its browser-based interface. If you don’t happen to have an application of your own handy, you can use the sample application provided […]

Let’s talk about the way that your design your application for use within AWS Elastic Beanstalk.. As I have already mentioned, Elastic Beanstalk will handle the nitty-gritty day-to-day details associated with running and scaling your application. You get to focus on your application and on your customers instead of on the details of the infrastructure. […]

Just like every other part of AWS, Elastic Beanstalk is programmable. A complete set of Elastic Beanstalk command line tools is available. You can use the Elastic Beanstalk APIs or the command line tools to integrate Elastic Beanstalk into your existing development process in new and interesting ways. For example, Makefiles (and other build tools […]