Cloud Hosting

This document will guide you through the creation of a simple web server running in the AWS cloud. You need to have a AWS account already set up have signed up to EC2. We're not going to be creating any permanent storage (EBS or S3) or going to be saving our instance for later use. Everything we do here will be destroyed once you terminate your instance.

Steve Nice, Technical Director of ForLinux Limited will be writing a series of AWS articles over the coming months.

Guys I'm struggling to get to grips with AWS... I need to upload a J2EE application but not sure where to go or how to do it under AWS. Give me a regular and I'll do it no problem, but not in the cloud. Any help appreciated.

Unless you've been on the moon you can't have missed the hype around Cloud computing and particularly the biggest name associated with it. Amazon Web Services (AWS) allows you to utilise Amazons massive server infrastructure without having to consider set up costs, hardware failures, network scalability or redundant hardware.

Following on from my previous iPhone application which allows you to monitor the status of various cloud computing backend services, and continuing with the Cloud Computing themed applications. I'd like to announce the release of my next iPhone application onto the App Store...

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