Red Hat's JBoss Enterprise Application Platform now available on Amazon EC2

Mumbai

June 19, 2008

Red Hat announced the beta availability of its JBoss Enterprise Application
Platform as a solution within the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).
Amazon EC2 is a web service that provides cost-effective resizable compute
capacity to help businesses deliver highly scalable and reliable solutions.
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform offers Java application server available
on Amazon EC2.

As a continuance of the Enterprise Acceleration Initiative announced in Feb
2008 to help increase enterprise adoption of open source middleware,
availability of the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform on Amazon EC2 is based
on the growing importance of cloud computing as well the ever-increasing need
for more processing power. With this announcement, developers, enterprises and
startups have enhanced access to open source technologies for building,
deploying and hosting enterprise Java applications and services on a web-scale
compute infrastructure with virtually unlimited capacity and pay-as-you-go
pricing.

This new offering significantly expands customer choice by providing users
with access to a platform for Java applications on the Amazon Web Services
platform. “The availability of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform on Amazon
EC2 helps lower technology entry barriers to open source middleware while giving
developers familiar solutions to use within the cloud,” said Aaron Darcy,
Director-Product Marketing, Red Hat.

“Developers using Amazon Web Services are looking for both cost-effective
and scalable computing power that reduces time to market. With Red Hat
Enterprise Linux and JBoss now supported on Amazon EC2, organizations can take
advantage of Java application server to build, deploy and maintain
enterprise-class applications,” said Steve Rabuchin, Director-Developer
Relations and Business Development, Amazon Web Services.

During the Red Hat Summit, attendees will be able to experience first-hand
Red Hat solutions on Amazon EC2 in the Amazon-sponsored 'Lab in the Clouds.'