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Easily Scale Your Apps on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service allows adding and removing compute resources on-demand, with the benefit of only paying for the hardware capacity needed, when it is needed. But there is a gap: with traditional middleware stacks, such as J2EE and LAMP, developing and deploying reliable transactional and data-intensive applications on the EC2 cloud is complex and time-consuming.

GigaSpaces XAP, the scale-out application server, bridges the gap between on-demand hardware scalability and on-demand application scalability.


The Benefits of GigaSpaces XAP for Amazon EC2

  • Scalable and reliable data layer: Out-of-the-box load-balancing, partitioning and fail-over -- providing scalability, performance and reliability for data-intensive and transactional applications
  • Linear scalability on the cloud: When application components (such as data and business logic) need to interact across Amazon Machine Image (AMI) boundaries scalability is hindered. GigaSpaces enables running the entire transaction, computation or query within a single AMI and scale by clustering multiple AMIs
  • Write Once Scale Anywhere: With GigaSpaces XAP, developers can write their application on their laptop as if it will run on a single box, and then scale across multiple EC2 servers without changing a single line of code
  • Transparently scale applications from on-premise servers to the EC2 cloud: Run your application in-house and scale it on-demand on Amazon EC2 for handling peak loads

The GigaSpaces-EC2 offering

GigaSpaces offers a pre-configured Amazon Machine Image (AMI) with GigaSpaces installation and scripts.

You write your application once, deploy to any number of GigaSpaces-AMI nodes and scale on-demand by launching additional instances.

GigaSpaces supports Amazon Large and Extra Large Instances, designed for large cluster deployments as well as the Amazon Small Instances, designed for small-scale testing.

The GigaSpaces-EC2 pricing policy is pay-per-use, similar to Amazon. You only pay for what you use.

Get Started with GigaSpaces for Amazon EC2




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