Category: AWS Elastic Beanstalk

  Although Summer is starting to ebb into Autumn in the northern hemisphere, it’s just getting going south of the equator, so there is still time to profile another start-up in our on-going series of profiles! Introducing Mendeley Today I’m very happy to introduce you to Mendeley, a London based startup that harnesses cloud computing […]

We just released two new capabilities for AWS Elastic Beanstalk that help you save your preferred environment settings and deploy changes to your applications with minimal downtime. Configuration Persistence Using the AWS Management Console, you can now save an environments configuration, launch a new environment with a saved configuration, and apply a saved configuration to […]

We’ve added a second container type to AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Version 7 of Apache Tomcat is now available for use and is the default for all new environments (you can still choose version 6 if you’d like). Tomcat 7 includes functional improvements such as support for the latest versions of a number of standards including […]

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 […]