Java and Cloud in 10 minutes? Jelastic

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35 points·MarinaSprava··5 comments

One of these days I will see an a detailed comparison of some of these Java cloud options (from GAE, to Heroku, Amazon Beanstalk, Cloudbees, and now Jelastic).

Given that I want to launch a side project on the cloud, this is very relevant to me, but I don't have the time to try all of them.

Interestingly, seems like they are building a platform similar to CloudFoundry and OpenStack.

Did they provide pricing information yet? I played with it in the past, and it seemed like an interesting solution, but wouldn't invest too heavily in it because of pricing uncertainty.

According to their press release[1], this is their pricing:

> $0.02 per cloudlet per hour from ServInt, and 0.016 euro from dogado.

However, when you build your environment it still says 0$ regardless of the resources that you want, and has this clause at the bottom:

> Our prices will only be published at the official sales launch.

[1]: http://blog.jelastic.com/2012/02/16/next-generation-java-paa...

There have been several IaaS products I've looked at recently with no pricing info. I'm not going to invest in learning or coding to your system without pricing.

There's probably not much to learn when using Jelastic.

You have your standard Java WAR/EAR and deploy it to Jelastic via Maven or the classical web "upload this file please".

This is not Amazon nor GAE that would required you to do stuff.

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