Software is ultimately an academic exercise unless it adds value in a production environment. In this chapter, we will explore how to deliver Storm solutions into the Amazon Web Services' Elastic Compute Cloud (AWS EC2). This isn't the only cloud hosting provider you might want to use, there are many good Platform as a Service (PaaS) providers, and many of them are excellent and also have high levels of automation and availability. The choice of AWS for the book is simply because it is extremely cheap and easy to get started, which is ideal for learning, but it also allows you to go from the basic deployments all the way through to complete Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), complete with multiple isolated subnets, firewalls, and appropriate IPSEC. These are all important concepts in an enterprise delivery, which you can learn quickly using AWS EC2 and VPC as presented in this chapter; however, the concepts and the tools are by no means tied to AWS.
You will learn to deploy Storm...