Hosting a java servlet on Amazon AWS

Question

I have a java servlet (.war file) that needs to be hosted on Amazon AWS.

Does anyone know of the steps involved, in form of a tutorial that will help me do this?

Answer 1

From the sounds of it you are not familiar with the ins and outs of deploying a web server or Java servlet container such as Tomcat. That said, I reckon the quickest and easiest way for you to deploy a war file to AWS is to use Amazon's Elastic Beanstalk functionality (check out the section titled 'For Java Developers'). If you have managed to create a war file then Elastic Beanstalk should get you up and running pretty quickly.

If you're keen to get to know more about the nuts and bolts of deploying a war file then you should have a read about how to setup and deploy Tomcat. FYI Tomcat is a web server and Java servlet container. It can be installed on AWS.