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Aptana Cloud: Develop locally, sync to the cloud

Posted by James | Filed under Code, Web

Aptana have announced their cloud platform initiative, Aptana Cloud.

Aptana Cloud plugs right into your IDE to provide instant deployment, smart synchronisation, and seamless migration as you scale. Aptana Cloud is ideal for developers who use scripting languages to create Ajax, Facebook, MySpace and all other sorts of web applications.

The key is that this isn’t an infrastructure play, which they clearly point out:

Aptana Cloud is architected to complement Cloud infrastructure providers like Amazon, Google, Joyent and others. To get started we’ve selected Joyent who serves up some of the largest of all Facebook apps.

This shows that their platform is designed to go meta, allowing you to deploy to various clouds in the future.

With Aptana Cloud we will see sophisticated tools to make us productive in the cloud. I am very excited to see that it won’t be too long until developers will be able to build an application, hit DEPLOY, and be done. This is a huge win.

For developers:

IDE plug-in integrates Cloud development, deployment and management life-cycles right into Aptana Studio in either its standalone or Eclipse based editions.
Instant deployment of projects to Cloud.
One-click sync your project to the Cloud, or provide fine-grained sync control too.
Integrated service management consoles.
Configure desired memory size and disk size.
Develop and instantly preview remote files right inside your Studio desktop environment.
Subversion source control.

I was pleased to read that not only Ruby on Rails, but Python is on the docket. After developing Django applications and playing with Google App Engine, I would love to be able to use Studio for Python code too.

Aptana adds extra value via IDE integration, deployment automation and active monitoring and notification services. It’s like the ease and simplicity between iTunes on your desktop and its connectivity to services on the Web.

For developers, the IDE plug-in integrates cloud development, deployment and management lifecycles right into Aptana Studio in either its standalone or Eclipse based editions. The ability to deploy stuff to the cloud from Eclipse is part of this as well.

Other developer features include instant deployment of projects to the cloud; one click can sync your project to the cloud or provide fine-grained sync control; the technology features integrated cloud services management, enables users to provision their cloud right from Aptana Studio, configure desired memory size and disk size, develop and instantly preview remote files right inside Aptana Studio, and includes Subversion source control.

Can’t wait to get an invite. If you want one too, request an account.

On a related note, Aptana Studio just passed 1.5 million downloads!

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