In the last two blog posts of this series we discussed how to set up a local VM-based development environment for a cloud application, and then built a Flask-RESTful app within this environment. Today, we’ll take our app to AWS, and we’ll set up a remote development environment. The environment we’ll describe here is configured for development, not production. If you’re interested in seeing how to prepare this application for production, let me know in the comments! This blog post was written on Ubuntu; it should work as well on macOS. There are some difficulties on Windows with the SSH config

Good news for Amazon Web Services (AWS) users. AWS Manager Plugin provides IntelliJ IDEA integration with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). (more…)