Run Java EE app on EC2

Question

Can anyone point me to the steps/resources that describe:

1. How to deploy a Java EE app on amazon-EC2
2. Maintain changes to the meta-data of the app serve

Answer 1

The Amazon AWS's newly Launched Elastic BeanStalk is here to resolve you concerns. You can deploy Java EE apps on Amazon Ec2 instances via Bean Stalk. All you need to do is create a new applications and create a environment in it and add you WAR file for deploying, AWS has its own version of Tomcat 6/7 with open JDK which can be customized to Sun JDK if required.

Therefore Amazon offers complete Deployment tool to start using your app by just deploying in BeanStalk. BeanStalk offer Auto Scaling & Elastic Load balancing and a lots more to customize your application Environment.