EC2 Glassfish

Benefits of Glassfish on Amazon EC2:

• Cloud Compute Capacity: Rapidly deploy multiple instances of Glassfish on Amazon Elastic Computing. Horizontally scale instances based on requirement. Amazon EC2 allows you to rapidly deploy new and additional instances, eliminating hardware and OS build-up time and effort.
• High Availability: Deploy your Application Server infrastructure on the highly available Amazon Computing Cloud.
• Security: Amazon EC2 will serve as a hardened, tested and monitored platform for your Glassfish deployments.
• Support: Amazon and Sun Microsystems will provide full Support for the Computing Cloud and GlassFish infrastructure respectively.

Glassfish Features:

GlassFish provides the foundation to develop and deploy Java EE artifacts including Web Services. It provides value-added services for management, monitoring, diagnostics, clustering, transaction management and high availability of mission-critical services. Some specific features are listed below:

• Java EE compatible: Implements Java EE 5 which helps improve developer efficiency
• Open source foundation: GlassFish Enterprise Server is based on Project GlassFish
• Clustering for scalability and high availability: Create and manage clusters from a single administration console and manage a cluster as a single entity, Load-balancing plugin monitors cluster health and balances load across available instances
• Breakthrough performance: GlassFish is the fastest open-source application server, surpassing the industry's leading application servers
• Sophisticated administration: Centralized administration of deployed instances and clusters
• .NET 3.0 Web services interoperability: Leveraging Project Metro, Sun's Web Services stack, applications can interoperate with Windows Communication Foundation(WCF)
• Update Center: Quick access to new technologies such as Open ESB, jMaki, JRuby, additional samples and documentation

Glassfish AMIs:

Here is the list of Glassfish AMIs:

EC2 Sun Glassfish Software AMIs

To obtain licensing information or get access to the Sun Software images, please send email to EC2-GlassFish-AMI@sun.com.

Getting Started:

1. Sign up for Amazon EC2
2. Study the Getting Started Guide for Amazon EC2.
3. The GlassFish instances are installed and ready to be used. If you are new to GlassFish, the links below will help you get started.
   1. Quick Start Guide
   2. v2.1 Documentation
   3. Discussion Forum
   4. Community site

Support:

Through the Sun Developer Expert Assistance program, Sun offers online. incident or subscription-based support services for developers. 
To learn more about this program and sign-up for the program, go to Sun Developer Expert Assistance program.