from: http://aws.amazon.com/articles/PHP/1044
Learn how to launch your Facebook application on Amazon Web Services
cloud infrastructure within minutes. A Facebook application—whether it
is online casual game or social application—is a hosted web application
that utilizes the Facebook API. You can host your Facebook applications
on AWS to access a reliable, scalable, and cost-effective compute
infrastructure.
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| Submitted By: | Jinesh@AWS |
| AWS Products Used: | Amazon EC2 |
| Language(s): | PHP, Ruby |
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By Jinesh Varia, AWS & the 8KMiles team
Host Your Facebook Applications on AWS
In this article, you will learn how to launch your Facebook
application on Amazon Web Services cloud infrastructure within minutes. A
Facebook application—whether it is online casual game or social
application—is a hosted web application that utilizes the Facebook API.
You can host your Facebook applications on AWS to access a reliable,
scalable, and cost-effective compute infrastructure.
The flexibility of AWS allows you to choose the programming models,
languages, and operating systems that you are already using or that are
best suited for your project. With AWS, you can bring your existing
skills and knowledge to the platform; you don't have to learn lots of
new skills.
When you host your application or game in the cloud, you can start
small and then quickly scale up your infrastructure when your
application is popular.
For the purpose of this tutorial, we will deploy a sample application built in PHP and host it in the AWS cloud.
To launch a sample Facebook application in the AWS cloud, all you have to do is following:
- 1. Sign up for AWS account (there is no charge for opening an AWS account)
- 2. Create a new Facebook app on Facebook
- 3. Launch the Facebook sample stack with one click
- 4. Configure the Site URL (or Canvas URL) of your app
- 5. You are done!
