Starting again with AWS

Starting on side projects again, so I am going to document them here at my easy-to-use ‘new’ blog. Thanks WordPress and other blogging tools.

I’m going to go through a variety of AWS tools and start with a Hello World test and then a more realistic test, maybe a stress test.
After a few tools are logged I’ll try to use them in conjunction, and eventually get to a more real project. Probably something with sports analytics, but I’ll see how I’m feeling after working with a few of the tools.

Two of the tools I’ve worked with are EC2 and Elastic Beanstalk, the 2 ‘compute’ tools. EC2 I used a while ago and it was definitely for more hardcore ops people. I got it up and running, but Elastic Beanstalk is easier after working with it a bit. Below is my first Hello World project. It is very simple code basically copied from a REST client and server example.

https://github.com/JasonFaas/AWS_ElasticBeanstalk_HelloWorld

  1. Run client test (Failing Test)
  2. Generate a WAR with Maven from the code
  3. Create an Elastic Beanstalk server with Tomcat
  4. Upload the WAR
  5. Modify Client test with server address
  6. Run client test (Passing Test)