GigaSpaces on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

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

Sign up for an EC2 pay-per-use license. (Learn more about the pricing policy).

Running your application on EC2 involves two steps:

1. Develop and test your application on your local machine.

To learn how to do this, refer to the Writing Your First Scalable Application tutorial. Focus on steps 1 and 2, as steps 3 and 4 are done in the EC2 environment using the cloud framework.

2. Deploying your application on EC2

GigaSpaces offers an EC2 cloud framework to enable deployment of the application developed above (i.e its Processing Units), in a "one click" approach, to a cluster of AMIs. The cloud framework also provides "desktop to the cloud" features, such as the GigaSpaces Management Center and monitoring tools.
To learn how to use this framework, refer to the EC2 Framework Developers Guide

GigaSpaces and other Cloud Providers

• RightScale
• GoGrid
• Flexiscale- coming soon!
• Joyent- coming soon!
• Cohesive FT - Elastic Server On Demand- coming soon!