Release: AWS Toolkit for Eclipse 1.5

A new Web Tools Platform server type, AWS Elastic Beanstalk for Tomcat 6, enables you to easily publish your Java web applications to the AWS platform using the standard WTP tooling.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk enables developers to quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS cloud without having to worry about the physical infrastructure or the resource configuration that accompanies setting up that infrastructure.   You simply upload your application to AWS Elastic Beanstalk, and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring.   

AWS Elastic Beanstalk leverages AWS services such as Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon Simple Notification Service, Elastic Load Balancing, and Auto-Scaling to deliver the same highly reliable, scalable, and cost-effective infrastructure that thousands of businesses depend on today. 

Once your application is deployed, AWS Elastic Beanstalk can be used to monitor, change configuration settings, and deploy new versions. For more information on AWS Elastic Beanstalk, see http://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk.

This server type replaces the older server type provided by the Amazon EC2 plug-in. If you were using the old server type, a migration assistant will help you convert your old WTP servers into AWS Elastic Beanstalk WTP servers.

A new AWS Java web project wizard allows you to easily create a new WTP dynamic web project, configured with the AWS SDK for Java, your AWS security credentials and optionally, a sample Java web application demonstrating how to use Amazon S3, SimpleDB, and Simple Notification Service together.

The AWS toolbar button provides quick access to common functionality. For example, you can quickly open the Amazon EC2 management views, or open the EC2 launch wizard.

AMI filtering to be done server side to speed up loading data in the UI.