Coghead Moves Web App Development Platform to Amazon EC2

Coghead announced it will move its do-it-yourself Web application development platform to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). By using Amazon Web Services to host the Coghead system, Coghead will be able to scale rapidly to meet growing user demand then adjust capacity instantly to address peak loads. Along with its move to Amazon Web Services, Coghead is introducing Coghead 2.0 with new functionality that will make it easier for any developer to build applications that leverage Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3.

Coghead’s use of Amazon Web Services supports the continued expansion of the Coghead Web application service. With the release of the next version of the platform, Coghead 2.0 is leveraging the same highly reliable, scaleable and cost-effective technology infrastructure that Amazon has spent 12 years and over $2 billion building for its own Web-scale operations.

“Amazon Web Services was designed to provide a highly reliable, cost-efficient infrastructure that can scale as a company’s needs change,” said Steve Rabuchin, director of developer relations for Amazon Web Services. “With Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2, Coghead customers can be confident that their applications will be supported by the same technology infrastructure that Amazon.com uses.”

“Our passion is to provide a massively scalable, highly reliable and secure application platform that a broad class of developers can use to efficiently build and deliver Web applications that solve specific business problems,” said Coghead CEO Paul McNamara. “With Amazon Web Services, we can take advantage of their unmatched expertise in building high reliability, Web-scale applications, and provide the infrastructure we need to rapidly scale the Coghead service to meet the demands of our ever-expanding roster of developers.”

Currently, more than 25,000 do-it-yourselfers have registered to use Coghead’s online application platform to create business applications and entrepreneurial opportunities. An intuitive, drag-and-drop interface makes it easy and fast to build sophisticated, robust business applications — from managing sales pipelines to tracking supplies for restaurants — without any coding. The Web-based services are developed and delivered using Coghead’s all-in-one platform, resulting in a radical reduction in the time and expense normally required to develop and deliver business applications that scale on-demand.

January 21, 2008 | Filed Under Software Development