ColdFusion 9 And Cloud Computing

During the CFUnited keynote this morning, we announced plans to support ColdFusion 9 in cloud computing deployments. Not a lot of details were given, and pricing was not discussed, but this is what we did say:

The current CPU based ColdFusion licensing, including no restriction on instances or virtual servers, remains as is in ColdFusion 9.
In addition, ColdFusion will introduce new licensing options for cloud environments, where there is no per CPU model. ColdFusion Standard will allow a single cloud instance, and ColdFusion Enterprise will allow up to 10 cloud instances.
Split licenses won't be allowed, so no ColdFusion Enterprise running on 1 CPU and 5 cloud instances, sorry.
We do plan to support Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) specifically by creating ready-to-use Amazon Machine Images (AMIs).

 More details to follow.

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David McGuigan August 12, 2009

This is a fantastic move! Way to go Adobe. Although I think that giving Standard 2 instances instead of 1 and opening up some limited clustering options for the Standard license would be a smart sidearm to it. Being able to explain that the entry-level ColdFusion server supports basic redundancy and load-balancing would be a great evangelism tool, as well as get more non-enterprise developers into the exploration of the enterprise features.

_mark August 12, 2009

CF9 + FB4 = ADOBE WIN :) .. i'm hoping.

Garth Braithwaite August 12, 2009

thanks. Now if only we could get it on Google App Engine

Adrian J. Moreno August 13, 2009

What about lower pricing for non-production environments? i.e. Integrated development, QA or staging environments?

Brock Baxter August 13, 2009

Thanks for the info Ben! Once again we've gotta be proud. Adobe hit this one OUT OF THE PARK. CloudComputing? Bolt? FlexBuilder 4? It's so great to be part of such a cutting edge community. Reallylooking forward to C9!! GO GO GO!!!

Rich Kroll August 13, 2009

#ERROR!

brian August 13, 2009

#ERROR!

Jedt Sitthidumrong August 13, 2009

Thank you Ben. I'm sure that CF9 will be a great release ever. Cloud is the way to go. So, the licensing should be allow 'non-enterprise' user to have more option/features also. loadbalancing and 2 instances for cloud like David said should be a big add on for beginner.

Ben Forta August 14, 2009

I think that the licensing is pretty final. Still, I'll pass these comment along. --- Ben

Michael van Leest March 29, 2010

Any news on the availability of the CF9 cloud licenses and AMI's??

Jerry Hamby May 28, 2010

So what's happening now with CF9 and the Cloud?

Alison Huselid June 2, 2010

CF9 currently supports cloud deployments. With CF9 we updated the EULA to allow you to take your traditional serial number to any cloud vendor you choose (including AWS). With CF9 Standard you are entitled to install one cloud based instance(or AMI) and with CF9 Enterprise you are entitled to 10 cloud based instances. Also, these instances are in addition to using your serial number on your traditional install of 2 CPUs.

Bob Klaas July 12, 2011

Do you have any updated information on the ColdFusion AMI become available? I'm stoked to hear that Adobe is moving forward with Amazon EC2. I can't wait until its ready to rock n roll.

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