Zend Server on EC2 is the enterprise way to run PHP in the cloud. It's an application server with a supported PHP runtime that can scale apps seamlessly across cloud resources, from the company most associated with PHP. Zend Server gives PHP developers and DevOps engineers amazing dev tools like Z-Ray, app deployment automation, performance monitoring, request analysis, and configuration management so apps run faster, scale better, and stay up longer. It is particularly useful for running mobile app back ends that require scalability based on demand. Want to create a scalable Zend Server cluster? Use our CloudFormation template generator: http://www.zend.com/en/products/server/cloudformation