Amazon Web Services (AWS), this month, added the Pivotal Cloud Foundry platform (PCF) to its Quick Start deployment solutions library.
Each Quick Start package uses AWS CloudFormation templates that automate and simplify the process of setting-up, configuring, and launching new services on AWS.
AWS users can now deploy a PCF environment to their AWS account in just three hours with the new Quick Start solution.
According to AWS’ announcement, developers will be able to deploy PCF on AWS to enable them to run their.NET or Spring applications on the cloud without requiring any reconfiguration. AWS users can also tap the PCF Service Broker, which allows them to run alongside services such as Amazon S3, DynamoDB, and the Amazon Relational Database Service.
AWS stated that the PCF environment on AWS offers built-in monitoring and logging, rapid scaling, as well as four levels of high availability. The deployment guide states that these four levels include automatic remediation of failed app instances and virtual machine processes, automatic restarts for failed platform processes, multiple availability zones (AZ) options, and automatic remediation for failed apps.
Two deployment sizes are available with the PCF Quick Start. The “Starter” option, which is smaller, is intended for evaluation purposes. It can deploy approximately 22 EC2 instances within a single AZ. Users can increase their capacity later. The “Multi-AZ” option, which deploys about 40 EC2 instances over two AZs, is “nearly production-grade.”
You can find more information about the PCF Quick Start here.
