Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing business of Amazon.com, this morning announced a new offering dubbed AWS Elastic Beanstalk, aimed to simplify the deployment and management of AWS cloud applications developed by third parties.
Elastic Beanstalk is designed to help developers automatically handles the deployment details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and health monitoring. As part of this AWS still allows full control the underlying resources so that you can switch them up at any time.
There is no extra charge for this service to any of the ASW cloud server customers, they pay only for the AWS resources needed to run their applications.
John Dillon, CEO of Engine Yard, is quoted in the press release thusly:
“We’re working with AWS to provide an Elastic Beanstalk Ruby on Rails container that leverages the optimized Engine Yard stack which has been battle-tested by thousands of high-growth companies.”
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