EC2 is easier than you think

As I’ve written about before with respect to Development 2.0, the future of application infrastructures is already here: it’s the cloud. Using the cloud to spin up and wind down hardware and software assets as needed turns out to be cost effective and rather easy to boot.

For instance, provisioning an Amazon EC2 instance for hosting your super slick Java Web application is a snap, man! In this Java development 2.0 column entitled “Easy EC2” from IBM developerWorks, you’ll quickly build a Web application that leverages Groovy, Spring, and Hibernate (via the Grails framework) and deploy it on an EC2 instance using Java Web Apps in a Box’s AMI.

So what are you waiting for? Read this article and you’ll be floating on the clouds in no time! Also, while you are at it, don’t forget to read the other articles in the series:

• You can borrow EC2 too (October 2009)
• Hello Google App Engine (August 2009)

Next month’s article will feature CouchDB — stay tuned!

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