Amazon's "Elastic Beanstalk": Cloud Computing For The Masses - Eric Savitz - Tech Musin... - 0 views
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Gary Edwards on 21 Jan 11Developers simply upload their application, and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring," the company said this morning in announcing the service. "At the same time, with Elastic Beanstalk, developers retain full control over the [Amazon Web Services] resources powering their application and can access the underlying resources at any time." Customers pay nothing for Elastic Beastalk, paying instead for the resources used to run their applications. Elastic Beanstalk provides a quick way for developers to make use of a range of Amazon services - Amazon EC2 (for computing power), Amazon S3 (for data storage), Amazon Simple Notification Service, Elastic Load Balancing, and Auto-Scaling. "Elastic Beanstalk handles the provisioning and deployment of the infrastructure needed to run the application," the company said.