Engine Yard is a cloud application platform for Ruby based on Amazon Web Services.
Engine Yard is a cloud application management platform for deploying Ruby, PHP, Java and Node.js applications of all sizes on Amazon Web Service EC2 instances as well as on Windows Azure and Terremark.
Build in features include:
- Automated deployment tools
- Server customization with Chef
- Cloning of whole environments
- Application load balancing
- Master-Slave MySQL replication
- memcached
Environments can be as small as 1 server running the application and database to large environments with multiple application, database, and utility servers.