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ColdFusion Now On AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a complete set of infrastructure and application services that enable you to run virtually everything in the cloud: from enterprise applications and big data projects to social games and mobile apps. The benefits include low upfront costs, the ability to scale on demand, and more. And now ColdFusion 10 for AWS is available offering ColdFusion users faster time to market, lower costs, and greater scalability.

The ColdFusion AMI (ColdFusion Enterprise Amazon Machine Image) is purchased hourly, $0.15/hour for a large instance and $0.30/hour for an x-large instance. It is available on both Windows 2008 R2 and Ubuntu 12.0.4.

15 responses to “ColdFusion Now On AWS”

  1. Tom Chiverton Avatar
    Tom Chiverton

    Woo hoo ! That works out at around (0.15 * 24 * 365) = $1,300 a year, which is extremely competitive compared to buying an enterprise licence yourself.
    Qudos to the team at Adobe !

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  2. Nic Avatar
    Nic

    This is exciting news, and a long time coming. Kudos to the team (both technical and business0 for making this happen. I also hope Adobe will work on a Standard edition AMI for startups so we can bootstrap prototypical projects quickly.

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  3. LV Larry Avatar
    LV Larry

    Is this the enterprise version?

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  4. Ben Forta Avatar
    Ben Forta

    Yes, Enterprise it is.
    — Ben

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  5. Henry Ho Avatar
    Henry Ho

    ColdFusion 10 for AWS link is broken

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  6. Ben Forta Avatar
    Ben Forta

    Nope, it’s working.
    — Ben

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  7. Chris Avatar
    Chris

    http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion-family/coldfusion-amazon-web-services.html not working as of 2:42PM Eastern.

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  8. Ben Forta Avatar
    Ben Forta

    Odd, I just tried it again and it is indeed working. I’ll pass this on to the adobe.com team.
    — Ben

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  9. John Sieber Avatar
    John Sieber

    The link is not currently working for me either, but I’m excited to see this option!

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  10. Dave Avatar
    Dave

    What does the phrase, "Pay only for the cloud resources used" mean in relationship to the $0.15/hr price tag?

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  11. Tom Avatar
    Tom

    Link not working for me either.

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  12. Ben Forta Avatar
    Ben Forta

    Dave, AWS pricing is usage based, and the prices posted here are the starting point. As you add features or utilize more services or bandwidth, the usage price goes up. Click on the product links and you’ll see Amazon pricing.
    — Ben

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  13. Phil Lepanto Avatar
    Phil Lepanto

    I tried to explore this a few months ago, but is it possible to connect ColdFusion to an AWS:RDS Database instance? Being able to spin up a Windows/Coldfusion/SQL Server instance quickly would be pretty helpful, but I don’t have a lot of use for it if it can’t connect to a database.

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  14. Jeff Avatar
    Jeff

    Ben, to Phil’s point, it would be great if Adobe came out with beginner videos on how to get a CF10 AMI up and running connected to an instance of Amazon’s RDS (database service) either MSSQL or MySQL. Sort of the traditional hosting setup, but all up and running on Amazon. I think that would significantly help those exploring the Amazon AMI option.

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  15. Edmund Avatar
    Edmund

    Hi Ben, will it support using an Access database?

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