Java development 2.0: Easy EC2

Java development 2.0: Easy EC2

As you know from "Java development 2.0: You can borrow EC2 too," Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a generic infrastructure service that hosts virtual machines (of the Linux®, OpenSolaris, or even Windows® persuasion) on which you can run anything you'd like. You can run any Java application — including a Web application that uses Hibernate and Spring, as I'll show you in this article — provided you create or borrow a virtual machine, also known as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) or instance.