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Running Java and Grails applications on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is ideally suited to running Java applications. It lets you develop using standard Java software packages such as Tomcat and MySQL and rapidly deploy applications on servers that are provisioned and managed via a web services API. And, with its pay as you go pricing model, Amazon EC2 enables startups to launch their application without any upfront investment in computer hardware and allows enterprises to reduce costs and become more agile.

However, because it is a cloud, some aspects of Amazon EC2 are very different than a traditional, physical computing environment. In this session you will learn about those differences and how they impact how you handle security, networking, storage and availability. We describe how to use EC2 and the other Amazon web services to develop and deploy Java applications. You will learn how to use EC2 availability zones to deploy highly available applications. We also discuss how to architect secure applications for Amazon EC2.

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Developing with Amazon Web Services

The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is probably the best known web service from Amazon but it’s not the only one. There are other highly scalable and reliable web services that you can use in your Grails applications including the Simple Storage Service (S3), Simple Queuing Service (SQS) and SimpleDB, a non-relational database. Although, using these web services couples your application to Amazon, they let you build highly scalable applications without the pain and cost of having to develop your own infrastructure.

In this session you will learn how to use these web services. We describe the various open-source Java libraries for interacting these web services including JetS3t and Typica and how to integrate them into your Grails development model. You will learn about the benefits and drawbacks of these web services and their typical uses cases.