Amazon Releases Elastic Beanstalk!... What?

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Post by zachster » Wed, Jan 19, 2011, 5:40 AM UTC

I was using my AWS console a few minutes ago and a new tab popped up featuring the odd title "Elastic Beanstalk". I tried to sign up for the service and access the documentation, but got nowhere. http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/7673/elastic.jpg

Google turns up elasticbeanstalk.com which redirects to AWS.

Ideas? Is it an ever expanding farm of Minecraft servers? Or maybe unlimited storage for hosting for leaked Scientology documents? Or is it just the public page for their long rumored agro-business venture?

Re: Amazon Releases Elastic Beanstalk!... What?

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Post by zachster » Wed, Jan 19, 2011, 5:44 AM UTC

I'm so impatient!

From: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/gs...

AWS Elastic Beanstalk enables developers to quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS cloud without having to worry about the infrastructure that runs those applications. AWS Elastic Beanstalk is designed to reduce management complexity without restricting choice or control. You simply upload your application and AWS Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring. AWS Elastic Beanstalk uses highly reliable and scalable services such as Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon Simple Notification Service, Elastic Load Balancing, and Auto Scaling to deploy your application within minutes. You can also perform most deployment tasks such as changing the fleet size or monitoring your application directly from the AWS Elastic Beanstalk web interface

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Post by Charuru » Wed, Jan 19, 2011, 6:17 AM UTC

zachster wrote: post #2

I'm so impatient! From: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/gs... AWS Elastic Beanstalk enables developers to quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS cloud without having to worry about the infrastructure that runs those applications. AWS Elastic Beanstalk is designed to reduce management complexity without restricting choice or control. You simply upload your application and AWS Elast…

Nice, so this is one step closer to Heroku/GAE.

I hope this puts the pricing pressure on cloud services.

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Post by lindvall » Wed, Jan 19, 2011, 7:31 AM UTC

Because they don't really say this until you get to the 3rd or 4th page: This is a way that they can deploy your Java applications (packaged as a WAR) for you.

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Post by bartman » Wed, Jan 19, 2011, 7:33 AM UTC

zachster wrote: post #2

I'm so impatient! From: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/gs... AWS Elastic Beanstalk enables developers to quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS cloud without having to worry about the infrastructure that runs those applications. AWS Elastic Beanstalk is designed to reduce management complexity without restricting choice or control. You simply upload your application and AWS Elast…

Applications must be written in Java (or anything you can put into a .war and make Tomcat run) [1]

[1] http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/gs...

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Post by sad » Wed, Jan 19, 2011, 7:49 AM UTC

bartman wrote: post #5

zachster wrote: post #2

I'm so impatient! From: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/gs... AWS Elastic Beanstalk enables developers to quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS cloud without having to worry about the infrastructure that runs those applications. AWS Elastic Beanstalk is designed to reduce management complexity without restricting choice or control. You simply upload your application and AWS Elast…

Applications must be written in Java (or anything you can put into a .war and make Tomcat run) [1] [1] http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/gs...

So scala, clojure, jruby, mirah ... are all ok.

Or even quercus if you are into php.

This sounds fun!

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Post by regularfry » Wed, Jan 19, 2011, 7:50 AM UTC

bartman wrote: post #5

zachster wrote: post #2

I'm so impatient! From: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/gs... AWS Elastic Beanstalk enables developers to quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS cloud without having to worry about the infrastructure that runs those applications. AWS Elastic Beanstalk is designed to reduce management complexity without restricting choice or control. You simply upload your application and AWS Elast…

Applications must be written in Java (or anything you can put into a .war and make Tomcat run) [1] [1] http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/gs...

...which would cover jruby apps packaged with warbler, unless there's something I'm missing.

Re: Amazon Releases Elastic Beanstalk!... What?

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Post by amock » Wed, Jan 19, 2011, 7:51 AM UTC

You can find more information at http://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/

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Post by tybris » Wed, Jan 19, 2011, 8:07 AM UTC

Wow, it's Amazon's response to Google App Engine. I like their increasingly silly naming. :-)

http://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/

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Post by kennethh » Wed, Jan 19, 2011, 8:15 AM UTC

Anyone found out anything about prices? Would be great with something that competed with Google App engine.