Led by Chris Richardson, hands-on architect and author of POJOs in Action, we are team of expert software developers. We have a deep knowledge of enterprise Java technologies and wrote the book on building application with POJOs, Spring and Hibernate. We also developed Cloud Tools, which is an open-source framework for deploying and testing Java EE applications on Amazon EC2. Read on to find out how we can help you test and deploy your applications using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and other Amazon web services.

What is Amazon EC2?

Amazon EC2 is virtualized computing environment that provides servers on-demand. By using a web service API, you can launch and terminate Linux servers to meet your changing computing needs. Launching multiple servers only takes a couple of minutes. With Amazon EC2 you have access to large amounts of computing power with no upfront investment in hardware. You simply pay $0.10-$0.80 per-server per-hour.

Amazon EC2 can be used for both development and production. With EC2, you can, for example, quickly set up cluster for performance testing and tuning - no more scavenging for hardware. It's also great for a production environment. You can launch your application with a minimal budget and quickly add or remove servers to match the load. No large upfront investment, no delays in acquiring hardware.

Amazon EC2 is one of several web services provided by Amazon. Other web services that are especially useful for enterprise applications include Simple Storage Service (S3), Simple Queuing Service (SQS) and Simple DB (SDB). Like Amazon EC2, these highly scalable services are pay-per-use and so don't incur an investment.

How we can help?

You can use Cloud Tools, our open-source framework for quickly and easily deploying Java and Grails applications on Amazon EC2. Please fill-in the form below if you want to participate in the alpha test for a new sophisticated version of Cloud Tools that includes monitoring and automated management.

We can help you quickly get started with Amazon EC2 and other Amazon web services. We offer a one-day jumpstart class in using Amazon web services that will enable you to quickly come up to speed. We can help you migrate your Java EE or Grails application to Amazon EC2. We can also work with you to setup test and production environments on Amazon EC2.