RightScale is a leading provider of cloud management solutions that enable Amazon EC2 users to more easily design, deploy, and manage business-critical applications on the cloud. To date, thousands of Amazon EC2 deployments have been launched using the RightScale Cloud Management Platform – running everything from scalable web sites to complex grid applications.

The RightScale Difference

What sets RightScale apart is the unique approach of managing complete deployments, comprising multiple servers and the connections between them, across one or more clouds – including Amazon EC2 in the US and Europe. Using the RightScale Platform, you can operate at a level above the underlying cloud infrastructure, using best practices designed specifically for cloud environments. Your deployments will run smoothly, managed by an automation engine that adapts resource allocation as required by system demand, system failures or other events – all based on active monitoring to ensure real-time response to triggers you define.

With RightScale, you remain in complete control every step of the way with total visibility into all layers of the cloud infrastructure. This transparency gives you the power to avoid lock-in because you choose your own development language, development environment, software stack and data store.

RightScale and Amazon EC2 get you on the cloud fast, with reliable solutions that take less time to manage.

Why Use RightScale to Manage Amazon EC2 Deployments?

Thousands of companies use the RightScale Platform to manage Amazon EC2 deployments every day, leveraging these key benefits:

• Cloud-ready ServerTemplates – Even if you have minimal knowledge of cloud architectures, you can take advantage of pre-packaged solutions for common application scenarios to get up and running on the cloud fast. RightScale’s wide variety of reliable and high-performing ServerTemplates incorporate best practice design architectures – so you can focus on your own application and trust in the reliability, resiliency, and performance of other more standard components.
• Automation across the deployment lifecycle – From auto-scaling to remediation to automatic configuration, you can achieve a new level of ease in administering production deployments – while also taking advantage of tools for managing multi-server deployments over the entire lifecycle.
• Transparency and control – Using RightScale’s open architecture, you retain complete visibility into all levels of your deployment. Manage, monitor, test, troubleshoot and re-launch applications with total control. You can also store valuable operations runbook knowledge and break free from the limits of virtual machine images.
• Eliminate lock-in with total portability – With RightScale, you gain the freedom and flexibility to choose from a variety of development languages, software stacks and data stores available on Amazon EC2 – so that you never get locked in to a single provider.

Get Started

Try RightScale with Amazon EC2 for free. Try out cloud computing for yourself using our Amazon EC2 account or your own. See how much automation you gain and control you retain with RightScale. You can also contact us for a private demo.

Take advantage of RightScale resources to help you get started:

• Visit RightScale’s wiki, support center and community forum for help getting started and managing your deployment.
• Watch best practice webinars to learn more about how you can take advantage of the cloud, on topics ranging from grid applications to the advantages of using ServerTemplates
• Thorsten von Eicken, CTO and Founder of RightScale, is a frequent speaker at leading cloud events. Read his blog for comments and insights on relevant industry trends and issues.