[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]
“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.“The community behind and around Amazon’s Web services offerings
has been quite busy over the last few years, and you can choose
from an entire catalog of public virtual machines to use at your
pleasure (see Resources). Linux comes in many flavors, so as you
can imagine the catalog is packed with various configurations of
software and related tools.”