As a part of continuous effort to improve Elastic Beanstalk PaaS, Amazon has upgraded it for .Net application environments. With this enhancement, AWS simplifies the setup and management when running .Net applications on Amazon’s cloud.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk for .Net applications now supports configuration files to simplify cloud setup and integration with Amazon’s private cloud and relational database. Amazon has been doing continuous efforts focusing on ease of deployment and management. This new enhancement on Elastic Beanstalk for .Net allows companies to run and manage their .Net applications on Amazon’s cloud using Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server 2012. Due to integration with Amazon’s Virtual Private Cloud, administrators can set up their own virtual network and then use Elastic Beanstalk to run .Net applications inside this logically isolated section.

Here’s what Amazon says what developers can do with Elastic Beanstalk for .Net:

• Create your application as you normally would using Microsoft Visual Studio.
• Publish your application to AWS Elastic Beanstalk using the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio.
• Alternatively, you can package your deployable code into a Microsoft Web Deploy .zip package and upload to AWS Elastic Beanstalk using the AWS Management Console.
• Behind the scenes, Elastic Beanstalk handles the provisioning of a load balancer and the deployment of your Microsoft Web Deploy package to one or more Amazon EC2 instances running Windows Server 2008 R2 and IIS 7.5.
• Within minutes you can access your application at a customized URL (e.g. http://myapp.elasticbeanstalk.com/).

While Elastic Beanstalk is still in beta, AWS has been trying best to make cloud easier to manage and continues to develop Elastic Beanstalk is part of that strategy. Back in March, it included Node.js on the Elastic Beanstalk. With this expansion of Elastic Beanstalk to include Node.js, AWS allows Node.js developers to focus on writing their applications and lets Elastic Beanstalk run and scale it automatically. Prior to that, Amazon announced the availability of AWS SDK for Node.js, which is accessible for download as a developer preview. Even before, AWS announced Elastic Beanstalk supporting Python applications that run on the familiar Apache HTTP server and WSGI.