Amazon's Elastic Beanstalk eases cloud app deployment

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Amazon Web Services recently announced the launch of its Elastic Beanstalk, a new service aimed at simplifying application development by automating the management of certain services.

Available for no additional charge, Elastic Beanstalk essentially brings cloud app development to the masses. When a web developer launches an application, the service takes over the deployment details relating to capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling and application health monitoring.

Designed to provide both flexibility and control, Elastic Beanstalk allows developers to leverage a number of AWS services, including Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon Simple Notification Service, Elastic Load Balancing and Auto-Scaling.

"AWS Elastic Beanstalk is easy to begin and impossible to outgrow," Amazon said in a statement. "With Elastic Beanstalk, you retain full control over the AWS resources powering your application and can access the underlying resources at any time."

Amazon Web Services has made a number of moves to makes its cloud computing offerings more enticing to enterprise users. Earlier this month, the company announced the addition of two new support plans and well as a price drop for two of its existing plans.