Amazon's Beanstalk aims to make Web Services easier to use

From InfoWorld: Amazon on Wednesday planned to introduce an offering that combines its Web services into one tool that is aimed at making it easier for customers to use and fine-tune the services.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk is now available for use by Java developers. To get started, a developer uploads a Java application to Elastic Beanstalk, which automatically handles the deployment details like provisioning compute capacity, load balancing between servers, autoscaling up and down, and monitoring the health of the application.

The tool draws on Amazon Web Services including EC2, S3, Simple Notification Service, Elastic Load Balancing, and Auto-Scaling.

Without Elastic Beanstalk, customers interact with each AWS service individually. Sometimes that requires developers to write code and make API (application programming interface) calls to the services. "That's a powerful and common way of using the cloud and it will continue to be going forward," said Adam Selipsky, vice president of Amazon Web Services.

Still, some customers and potential customers said they either don't have the technical sophistication to write such code or "they don't have the inclination because they'd rather spend their time on other things," he said.

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