Amazon has just announced their “Elastic Beanstalk”, which they describe as “an even easier way for developers to quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS cloud.” “AWS” stands for Amazon Web Services. The “Elastic”, first coined for Amazon’s “Elastic Compute Cloud” (Amazon EC2), refers to the ability to increase or decrease your viritual server capacity on the fly. The service, which is essentially an interface for all of the underlying Amazon AWS offerings, such as Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, Amazon Simple Notification Service, and Elastic Load Balancing and Auto-Scaling, is available at no additional charge.