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I feel like “elastic” has become the latest top buzzword, and with good reason, because it really will be the future of the internet. One of the greatest helpers towards an elastic web has been Amazon with their web services. EC2 gives you an easy pay-as-you-use infinitely scalable server, S3 gives unlimited storage, SQS gives a queue service, and their new SimpleDB provides a document-oriented database system. I’m currently working on a project I will be deploying to EC2, so I was investigating how to get started with this process…

Unfortunately, despite Amazon providing you with default AMI (Amazon Machine Image, think of it like a copy of your OS), building your own is tough work! Don’t get me wrong, compiling software and hooking it up is pretty fun but I’d rather spend my hours programming and enhancing my applications rather than just publishing them on the web!

In comes Elastic Server On-Demand, an amazing website which you can use to build your own elastic server, ready for deployment not only on EC2, but also many other virtualization platforms! You literally “check the boxes” and click build and you’re off!

Go elastic.