Amazon Beanstalk

The book I read to research this post was Amazon Beanstalk Developer Guide which is a very good book which I downloaded for free from kindle. Amazon apparently has more than 20 web services. Beanstalk works in conjunction with elastic compute cloud or EC2 & simple storage service or S3. It allows you to write your own software and you can upload it to this service and Amazon will make that hardware wise and compatibility wise the program will run on the cloud. If you opt to run it in a sandbox or in other words test it you may be eligible for the free usage tier depending on how much storage is needed. Beanstalk is compatible with linux, windows 7, windows server 2008 r2 & macs. There is a whole host of languages you can write the program like java & PHP although some may require the relevant amazon software development kit.