How to deploy a Java EE application in the Amazon cloud?

Question

Here\'s the thing: I need to take a certain Java EE web app and deploy it to Amazon EC2 (which I will need to setup first) starting next month (using the http://aws.amazon.c

Answer 1

Boxfuse now supports deploying Java EE applications using either Tomcat, TomEE Web Profile or TomEE Plus to AWS with a single command

boxfuse run mytomeeapp-1.0.war -env=prod

This will create an image, provision all necessary AWS infrastructure (AMIs, security groups, auto-scaling groups, launch configurations, ELBs, Elastic IPs, ...) and launch the instances. It supports blue/green zero downtime updates with Elastic IPs and ELBs.

You can find a tutorial here: https://boxfuse.com/blog/javaee-aws

Disclaimer: I am the founder and CEO of Boxfuse