Free Trial of Invaluable Bitnami Cloud Hosting Service Offered to Startups Utilizing AWS Activate

SAN FRANCISCO, March 4, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Bitnami is offering Bitnami Cloud Hosting to startups leveraging the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Activate program. Bitnami is offering usage of Bitnami Cloud Hosting, a cloud server management platform that makes it easy to launch and manage scores of popular applications and development tools in AWS, for AWS Activate program participants at no additional cost for up to six months.

Photo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20140304/PH75635-a

Photo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20140304/PH75635LOGO-b

For startups, cloud computing is ideal because it provides instant access to virtually unlimited compute resources without requiring them to invest in and manage costly hardware. It also helps companies to scale quickly as their needs change, without having to over-provision their environments when they are just getting started. AWS Activate provides education, best practices, and even credit for AWS cloud services such as computing and storage to startups in the program. Startups can take advantage of AWS' deep technical resources, large network of users and cloud computing power to help build and drive their IT and software development systems.

Bitnami Cloud Hosting Offer

Bitnami powers more than 100 million hours of compute time for customers around the world. Customers can find Bitnami AMIs in the AWS Marketplace for popular applications such as WordPress, Drupal, Alfresco, SugarCRM, MongoDB, DreamFactory and more. All Bitnami AMIs are available free of charge.

In addition to AMIs, Bitnami provides an optional server management dashboard called Bitnami Cloud Hosting. Bitnami Cloud Hosting greatly simplifies server management and offers powerful features such as automatic backups, cloning, monitoring, notifications, and more.

"As a startup ourselves, we can appreciate the needs of young companies for inexpensive and friction-free hosting," said Daniel Lopez, CEO and co-founder at Bitnami. "Startups don't have the resources of larger companies and require easy-to-use tools with low overhead. Bitnami Cloud Hosting provides unparalleled ease for users to manage their AWS servers, perform backups and spin up apps in minutes."

Bitnami is offering AWS Activate members a free trial of Bitnami Cloud Hosting:

• AWS Activate members using the Self-Starter package can get 3 months of Bitnami Cloud Hosting free
• AWS Activate members using the Portfolio Package can get 6 months of Bitnami Cloud Hosting free

AWS usage fees apply. More details on the AWS Activate program can be found: http://aws.amazon.com/activate/.

About Bitnami

Bitnami makes it simple to deploy applications or build development, QA and production environments. Our library of nearly 100 popular open source and commercial applications can be installed and configured – natively, as a virtual machine or into the cloud – in minutes with just one-click. Our product, Bitnami Cloud Hosting, offers a simple way to manage and administer cloud-based servers for Amazon EC2 and other popular cloud providers. To learn more, visit http://bitnami.com. 

Contact
Jon Silvers, Bitnami
 510 418 2323
Email

Read more news from Bitnami.

SOURCE Bitnami