AWS OpsWorks User Guide (API Version 2013-02-18) Next »  What is
AWS OpsWorks?  AWS OpsWorks is an application management service
that provides an integrated experience for overseeing the
complete application lifecycle. With AWS OpsWorks, you can
provision AWS resources, supervise their configuration, deploy
applications to those resources, and monitor their health.  AWS
OpsWorks uses automation to simplify operations. You create
blueprints that define your instance and its software
configuration, including installation scripts and initialization
tasks. You can automate scaling out your instances and determine
the configuration of like instances all at once instead of one
at a time. You can then specify how to deploy, scale, and
maintain your applications. You can let AWS OpsWorks perform
many operational tasks for you or add your own custom actions.
AWS OpsWorks supports a wide variety of application
architectures. It can work with any software that has a scripted
installation. Because AWS OpsWorks uses the