Amazon Web Services Launches OpsWorks: for modeling, customizing, and automating applications.
It includes: resource provisioning,
configuration management, deployment, monitoring, and access control. We discover
that, with a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, Amazon Web Service
OpsWorks enables developers
to orchestrate all tasks required to model, deploy,
scale, and maintain their applications.
According to Amazon Web Services, application management traditionally has
been complex and time consuming. Developers had to choose among application
management solutions that reduced flexibility and control, or required custom
tooling. AWS OpsWorks is designed to eliminate these challenges by providing a
flexible, automated, and end-to-end solution:
- Flexible: AWS OpsWorks supports a wide variety of application architectures and any software with a scripted installation. Because AWS OpsWorks uses the Chef framework, developers can use existing recipes or leverage hundreds of community-built configurations.
- Automated: AWS OpsWorks uses automation to simplify operations. Users can leverage its event-driven configuration system and rich deployment tools to efficiently manage an application over its lifetime. AWS OpsWorks supports customizable deployments, rollback, patch management, auto scaling, and auto healing. Application updates can be deployed by updating a single configuration and clicking a button, reducing the time spent on routine tasks.
- Operational Control: AWS OpsWorks promotes conventions and sane defaults, such as template security groups. It also supports the ability to customize any aspect of an application’s configuration. Developers can reproduce exact configurations on new instances and apply changes to all instances, ensuring consistency.
Amazon Web Services announces no
additional charge for AWS OpsWorks, customers only pay for the AWS resources
needed to store and run their applications. AWS OpsWorks is available in all
public AWS Regions. To get started with AWS OpsWorks, you click here.
